Asian Civilisations Museum

Eventually Mahathir was returned to office However he was elected with such a small majority of 43 (761 against 718 votes) that questions were immediately raised about his mandate Team B supporters many of whom had been anticipating a victory of similar margins suspected that the election had been fixed The Team B candidate for Deputy President Musa Hitam had also been defeated by Ghafar Baba of Team A while two of the three Vice-Presidents were Team a candidates The Supreme Council comprised 16 Team a candidates and 9 Team B candidates. 6.1 Junior college This section's factual accuracy is disputed Relevant discussion may be found on Talk:Education in Singapore Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced (October 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Main article: Religion in Singapore, 4 Administration By the 1890s the Imperial Japanese Army had grown to become the most modern army in Asia: well-trained well-equipped and with good morale However it was basically an infantry force deficient in cavalry and artillery when compared with its European contemporaries Artillery pieces which were purchased from America and a variety of European nations presented two problems: they were scarce and the relatively small number that were available were of several different calibers causing problems with ammunition supply.[citation needed], In London Viscount Castlereagh attempted to quell Dutch fears and continuing efforts were made to reach an agreement between the nations that eventually became the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London of 1824 As well as the treaty instructions were sent out to Raffles to undertake far less intrusive actions; however distance between the Far East and Europe meant that the orders had no chance of reaching Raffles in time! 1.0% The Westminster system was adopted by a number of countries which subsequently evolved or reformed their system of government departing from the original model In some cases certain aspects of the Westminster system were retained or codified in their constitutions For instance South Africa and Botswana unlike Commonwealth realms or parliamentary republics such as India have a combined head of state and head of government but the President remains responsible to the lower house of parliament; it elects the President at the beginning of a new Parliament or when there is a vacancy in the office or when the sitting President is defeated on a vote of confidence If the Parliament cannot elect a new President within a short period of time (a week to a month) the lower house is dissolved and new elections are called.

(bought or sold) The Gambia between 1965 and 1970, The airport underwent refurbishment in 2015 as part of plans to relieve pressure on Changi Airport The plan was to optimise its capacity and move smaller and slower aircraft to the airport! House of Representatives Monarchy Federated Nation meaning that the power to govern the country and its people is shared and divided between national and state governments 14 Notes The Japanese invasion of Taiwan under Qing rule in 1874 was a punitive expedition by Japanese military forces in response to the Mudan Incident of December 1871 The Paiwan people who are indigenous peoples of Taiwan murdered 54 crewmembers of a wrecked merchant vessel from the Ryukyu Kingdom on the southwestern tip of Taiwan 12 men were rescued by the local Chinese-speaking community and were transferred to Miyako-jima in the Ryukyu Islands The Empire of Japan used this as an excuse to both assert sovereignty over the Ryukyu Kingdom which was a tributary state of both Japan and Qing China at the time and to attempt the same with Taiwan a Qing territory It marked the first overseas deployment of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. 2.2 Rule Literature of Singapore or SingLit comprises a collection of literary works by Singaporeans written chiefly in the country's four official languages: English Malay Standard Mandarin and Tamil It is increasingly regarded as having four sub-literatures instead of one Many significant works has been translated and showcased in publications such as the literary journal Singa published in the 1980s and 1990s with editors including Edwin Thumboo and Koh Buck Song as well as in multilingual anthologies such as Rhythms: a Singaporean Millennial Anthology Of Poetry (2000) in which the poems were all translated three times each into the three languages A number of Singaporean writers such as Tan Swie Hian and Kuo Pao Kun have contributed work in more than one language although such cross-linguistic fertilisation is becoming increasingly rare.[citation needed]. 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.