In April 2012 the Economist Intelligence Unit acquired Clearstate a market intelligence firm offering customised strategic advisory and primary research solutions specifically addressing the healthcare and life sciences domains within the Asia Pacific Clearstate was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Singapore; Types On 15 June 2007 Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc announced that it had acquired a 4.99% stake in SGX. Since then the value of the shares has declined and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc has made a decision to sell the shares it holds in SGX to its parent company the Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. The British invasion of Java took a total of forty-five days during which Raffles was appointed the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies by Baron Minto before hostilities formally ceased He took his residence at Buitenzorg and despite having a small subset of Britons as his senior staff kept many of the Dutch civil servants in the governmental structure, 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 1931 the Imperial Japanese Army had an overall strength of 198,880 officers and men organized into 17 divisions the Manchurian incident as it became known in Japan was a pretended sabotage of a local Japanese-owned railway an attack staged by Japan but blamed on Chinese dissidents Action by the military largely independent of the civilian leadership led to the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and later to the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 As war approached the Imperial Army's influence with the Emperor waned and the influence of the Imperial Japanese Navy increased. Nevertheless by 1938 the Army had been expanded to 34 divisions. Hong Kong a former British crown colony and currently a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China has a unicameral Legislative Council While the Legislative Councils in British Australasian and North American colonies were unelected upper houses and some of them had since abolished themselves the Legislative Council of Hong Kong has remained the sole chamber and had in 1995 evolved into a fully elected house yet only part of the seats are returned by universal suffrage Responsible government was never granted during British colonial rule and the Governor remained the head of government until the transfer of sovereignty in 1997 when the role was replaced by the Chief Executive Secretaries had remained to be chosen by the Chief Executive not from the Legislative Council and their appointments need not be approved by the Legislative Council Although essentially more presidential than parliamentary the Legislative Council had inherited many elements of the Westminster system including parliamentary powers privileges and immunity and the right to conduct inquiries amongst others Minutes are known as Hansards and the theme colour of the meeting chamber is red as in other upper houses Government secretaries and other officials are seated on the right hand side of the President in the chamber The Chief Executive may dissolve the Legislative Council under certain conditions and is obliged to resign e.g when a re-elected Legislative Council passes again a bill that he or she had refused to sign. Market size and liquidity Sciences 10 References. 2 divisions in Japan (Imperial Guard plus one other).
1965-1973: Annual growth of real GDP was 12.7%, History New traveling route brings economic opportunity. 3 Trading system, velocity of money through the economy; 13 Sambal lala soft shell clams fried with sambal sauce. . Other titles include First Minister Chief Executive President of the Council of Ministers (80.6) 26.4; 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, Private health insurance, Stormwater management Raffles' expedition arrived in Singapore on 29 January 1819 (although they landed on Saint John's Island the previous day). He found a Malay settlement at the mouth of the Singapore River headed by Temenggong Abdul Rahman for the Sultan of Johor The Temenggong had originally moved to Singapore from Johor in 1811 with a group of Malays and when Raffles arrived there were an estimated 150 people governed by the Temenggong mostly of them Malays with around 30 Chinese. Although the island was nominally ruled by Johor the political situation was precarious for the Sultan of Johor at the time The incumbent Sultan of Johor Tengku Abdul Rahman was controlled by the Dutch and the Bugis and would never agree to a British base in Singapore However Abdul Rahman was Sultan only because his older brother Tengku Hussein also known as Tengku Long had been away in Pahang getting married when their father died Hussein was then living in exile in the Riau Islands.
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