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. . ; 10 References Contents, Integrated Programme Main article: Klaipeda Region, Hokkien mee Mountbatten arrives on board HMS Glasgow at Malta to assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet 16 May 1952.

During the 1950s Chinese communists with strong ties to the trade unions and Chinese schools waged a guerrilla war against the government leading to the Malayan Emergency The 1954 National Service riots Hock Lee bus riots and Chinese middle schools riots in Singapore were all linked to these events. David Marshall pro-independence leader of the Labour Front won Singapore's first general election in 1955 He led a delegation to London but Britain rejected his demand for complete self-rule He resigned and was replaced by Lim Yew Hock in 1956 whose policies convinced Britain to grant Singapore full internal self-government for all matters except defence and foreign affairs, With the creation of the Bank of England in 1694, which acquired the responsibility to print notes and back them with gold the idea of monetary policy as independent of executive action began to be established the goal of monetary policy was to maintain the value of the coinage print notes which would trade at par to specie and prevent coins from leaving circulation The establishment of central banks by industrializing nations was associated then with the desire to maintain the nation's peg to the gold standard and to trade in a narrow band with other gold-backed currencies To accomplish this end central banks as part of the gold standard began setting the interest rates that they charged both their own borrowers and other banks who required liquidity The maintenance of a gold standard required almost monthly adjustments of interest rates The gold standard is a system under which the price of the national currency is measured in units of gold bars and is kept constant by the government's promise to buy or sell gold at a fixed price in terms of the base currency The gold standard might be regarded as a special case of "fixed exchange rate" policy or as a special type of commodity price level targeting Nowadays this type of monetary policy is no longer used by any country. Transport within Singapore is mainly land-based Many parts of Singapore including islands such as Sentosa and Jurong Island are accessible by road The other major form of transportation within Singapore is rail: the Mass Rapid Transit which runs the length and width of Singapore and the Light Rail Transit which runs within a few neighbourhoods The main island of Singapore is connected to the other islands by ferryboat services, 7 Named after Ptolemy ?Renminbi, 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.