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6.6 Option Average rainfall mm (inches) 234.6 (95.4) 35.2 Post-World War II. Types of food and some world popular food The Reid Commission led by Lord William Reid was formed to draft the constitution Although enshrining concepts such as federalism and a constitutional monarchy the proposed constitution also contained provisions protecting special rights for the Malays such as quotas in admission to higher education and the civil service and making Islam the official religion of the federation It also made Malay the official language of the nation although the right to vernacular education in Chinese and Tamil would be protected Although the Tunku and the Malay rulers had asked the Reid Commission to ensure that "in an independent Malaya all nationals should be accorded equal rights privileges and opportunities and there must not be discrimination on grounds of race and creed," the Malay privileges which many in UMNO backed were cited as necessary by the Reid Commission as a form of affirmative action that would eventually be phased out These measures were included as Articles 3 152 and 153 of the Constitution. The pattern of executive functions within a Westminster System is quite complex In essence the head of state usually a monarch or president is a ceremonial figurehead who is the theoretical nominal or de jure source of executive power within the system In practice such a figure does not actively exercise executive powers even though executive authority may be exercised in their name, 2.1 Water from catchment areas, Non-bank foreign exchange companies. Monetary policy instruments One way to deal with the foreign exchange risk is to engage in a forward transaction In this transaction money does not actually change hands until some agreed upon future date A buyer and seller agree on an exchange rate for any date in the future and the transaction occurs on that date regardless of what the market rates are then The duration of the trade can be one day a few days months or years Usually the date is decided by both parties Then the forward contract is negotiated and agreed upon by both parties, Government-aided 28 31.4% A small hastily assembled vanguard force of about 2,000 troops under the command of British Admiral Edward Seymour departed by rail from Tianjin for the legations in early June. On June 12 mixed Boxer and Chinese regular army forces halted the advance some 30 miles from the capital The road-bound and badly outnumbered allies withdrew to the vicinity of Tianjin having suffered more than 300 casualties the army general staff in Tokyo became aware of the worsening conditions in China and had drafted ambitious contingency plans, but the government in light of the Triple Intervention refused to deploy large forces unless requested by the western powers. However three days later the general staff did dispatch a provisional force of 1,300 troops commanded by Major General Fukushima Yasumasa to northern China Fukushima was chosen because his ability to speak fluent English which enabled him to communicate with the British commander The force landed near Tianjin on July 5, See also The Integrated Shield Plan (IP) includes both the MediShield Life component and an additional private insurance coverage component run by private insurers to cover for optional benefits in public hospitals and private hospitals Premiums for the IP can be paid by the Medisave funds. (67.5) 20.2 Mathematics (Pre 2019 Change), China: Hong Kong and Macau, Singapore's main territory is a diamond-shaped island although its territory includes surrounding smaller islands The farthest outlying island is Pedra Branca Of Singapore's dozens of smaller islands Jurong Island Pulau Tekong Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the larger ones Most of Singapore is no more than 15 metres above sea level. The national flower of Singapore is the hybrid orchid Vanda 'Miss Joaquim' named in memory of a Singapore-born Armenian woman who crossbred the flower in her garden at Tanjong Pagar in 1893. Many national symbols such as the Coat of arms of Singapore and the Lion head symbol of Singapore make use of the lion as Singapore is known as the Lion City Major religious festivals are public holidays, Singapore business directory, Government Broadband Index (gBBi) The first part of the Geography is a discussion of the data and of the methods he used As with the model of the Solar System in the Almagest Ptolemy put all this information into a grand scheme Following Marinos he assigned coordinates to all the places and geographic features he knew in a grid that spanned the globe Latitude was measured from the equator as it is today but Ptolemy preferred to express it as climata the length of the longest day rather than degrees of arc: the length of the midsummer day increases from 12h to 24h as one goes from the equator to the polar circle In books 2 through 7 he used degrees and put the meridian of 0 longitude at the most western land he knew the "Blessed Islands" often identified as the Canary Islands as suggested by the location of the six dots labelled the "FORTUNATA" islands near the left extreme of the blue sea of Ptolemy's map here reproduced. Singapore is the pricing centre and leading oil trading hub in Asia The oil industry makes up 5 per cent of Singapore's GDP with Singapore being one of the top three export refining centres in the world In 2007 it exported 68.1 million tonnes of oil The oil industry has led to the promotion of the chemical industry as well as oil and gas equipment manufacturing. Singapore has 70 per cent of the world market for both jack-up rigs and for the conversion of Floating Production Storage Offloading units It has 20 per cent of the world market for ship repair and in 2008 the marine and offshore industry employed almost 70,000 workers.

10 References 13 External links Terminology 672,000 known civilian dead House of Representatives Monarchy 13 External links. 12 Post-World War II Per Capita GDP Real, Carry trade Lord Mountbatten inspects Malayan troops in Kensington Gardens in 1946. Singapore's largest companies are in the telecoms banking transportation and manufacturing sectors many of which started as state-run enterprises and has since been listed on the Singapore Exchange including Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) Singapore Technologies Engineering Keppel Corporation Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) United Overseas Bank (UOB) In 2011 amidst the global financial crisis OCBC DBS and UOB were ranked as the world's 1st 5th 6th "strongest banks in the world" respectively by Bloomberg surveys; ; 4.3 Energy and infrastructure In a fixed exchange rate regime exchange rates are decided by the government while a number of theories have been proposed to explain (and predict) the fluctuations in exchange rates in a floating exchange rate regime including:. Singapore business directory, Transparency IB Social and Cultural Anthropology, SGX operates several different divisions each responsible for handling specific businesses.