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Straits Settlements 9 References Parkway Pantai is Southeast Asia's largest private healthcare provider with hospitals in several countries such as Singapore Malaysia and Brunei It is a wholly owned subsidiary of IHH Healthcare and owns four hospitals in Singapore: Gleneagles Hospital Mount Elizabeth Hospital Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital and Parkway East Hospital, MediFund is Singapore's safety net program which covers only the lowest class of hospitalization fees and services. This form of coverage and insurance is only available to citizens of Singapore once they have depleted their MediSave and MediShield funds the amount of funding and coverage is dependent on the individuals' income health condition and socioeconomic status. Reserves BN was also challenged in Sarawak after the 1974 election which saw the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) led by James Wong become tied with the DAP as the most important opposition party in Parliament both of them holding nine seats each SNAP had campaigned against BN on a platform of opposing Chief Minister Abdul Rahman Ya'akub's pro-Malay policies charging them with alienating the rural indigenous natives of Sarawak such as the Iban SNAP had been expelled from the Alliance in 1965 for supporting increased autonomy for Sarawak which was impossible to attain as Sarawak has already state their claim prior to their agreement in joining the Federation of Malaysia After the election results were released Abdul Rahman ordered the detention of James Wong under the Sedition Act SNAP elected a new leader Leo Moggie who secured the release of Wong and the entry of SNAP into BN in 1976. In 2011 CERN announced the initial results from its CLOUD experiment in the Nature journal the results indicate that ionisation from cosmic rays significantly enhances aerosol formation in the presence of sulfuric acid and water but in the lower atmosphere where ammonia is also required this is insufficient to account for aerosol formation and additional trace vapours must be involved The next step is to find more about these trace vapours including whether they are of natural or human origin. Singapore's education system has been described as "world-leading" and in 2010 was among those picked out for commendation by the Conservative former UK Education Secretary Michael Gove According to PISA an influential worldwide study on educational systems Singapore has the highest performance in international education and tops in global rankings; . In December 2012 the Economist Intelligence Unit acquired Bazian which specialises in the analysis and supply of clinical evidence on health services treatment and health technologies to assess clinical effectiveness and value for money Headquartered in London Bazian was founded by Vivek Muthu and Anna Donald in 1999. ; .

Ornate details on top of Sri Mariamman Temple in Chinatown district Singapore's oldest Hindu temple since 1827, S$10,714 US$11.899 Close 5:06 pm, Mahathir claimed that the charges against him were groundless and suggested that his opponents were fracturing Malay unity and were only motivated by greed. . Singaporean cuisine is also a prime example of diversity and cultural diffusion in Singapore In Singapore's hawker centres for example traditionally Malay hawker stalls also sell Tamil food Chinese stalls may introduce Malay ingredients cooking techniques or entire dishes into their range of catering This continues to make the cuisine of Singapore significantly rich and a cultural attraction Singaporeans also enjoy a wide variety of seafood including crabs clams squid and oysters One favorite dish is the stingray barbecued and served on banana leaf and with sambal (chilli). Six global contexts After the separation of Singapore from the Federation the Alliance leaders focused on continuing its policies One involved the Malay language which was the official language of Malaysia UMNO sought to reduce the reliance on English in government affairs In this it was aided by PAS the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party which backed special rights for the Bumiputra and the strengthening of Islam's position in public affairs However the PAP's Malaysian branch which had now become Democratic Action Party (DAP) took a very strong stance against this and continued the expelled PAP's call for a "Malaysian Malaysia" In 1968 the newly formed Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia or Gerakan led by Lim Chong Eu joined DAP; In early Philippine history the Barangay was a complex sociopolitical unit which scholars have historically considered the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago. These sociopolitical units were sometimes also referred to as Barangay states but are more properly referred to using the technical term "polity" They are usually simply called "barangays" Evidence suggests a considerable degree of independence as city states ruled by Datus Rajahs and Sultans. Early chroniclers record that the name evolved from the term balangay which refers to a plank boat widely used by various cultures of the Philippine archipelago prior to the arrival of European colonizers.