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World War II Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, In recent years the goal of the education sector and in particular tertiary education has moved beyond simply building local manpower capabilities and is actively being developed by the Singapore government as a source of revenue The government's plan which was initiated in 2002 is to make Singapore a "Global Schoolhouse" attracting revenue-generating international students in 2002 the education sector accounted for 3.6% of Singapore's economy The government's aim was to grow this sector to 5% of Singapore's economy over the subsequent decade. 1980 US$12.078 Singapore ceased to be part of the British Empire when it merged with Malaysia in 1963 Singapore lost its hinterland and was no longer the administrative or economic capital of the Malay Peninsula The processing in Singapore of raw materials extracted in the Peninsula was drastically reduced due to the absence of a common market between Singapore and the Peninsular states! . The IB Career-related Programme (formerly IB Career-related Certificate) was first offered in 2012 List of aircraft 8 External links The natural environment of Java is tropical rainforest with ecosystems ranging from coastal mangrove forests on the north coast rocky coastal cliffs on the southern coast and low-lying tropical forests to high altitude rainforests on the slopes of mountainous volcanic regions in the interior The Javan environment and climate gradually alters from west to east; from wet and humid dense rainforest in western parts to a dry savanna environment in the east corresponding to the climate and rainfall in these regions; See also: Safe-haven currency (86.4) 31.5 Direct election (such as the Australian Senate).

Singapore has had other forms of light urban rail systems such as the monorail system on Sentosa island which opened in February 1982 This 6.4 km 6-station system was closed in March 2005 and a new Sentosa Express system was built by December 2006 The Changi Skytrain a people mover system shuttling passengers between the three terminals at the Singapore Changi Airport was opened originally in 1990 along with Terminal 2 and upgraded in 2006 with the completion of Terminal 3 The Jurong BirdPark previously featured an air-conditioned panorail which closed in 2012; On 2 February 1824 Raffles and his family embarked on the East Indiaman Fame for England Unfortunately she caught fire 50 miles from Bencoolen the evening after she sailed All aboard were able to take to her boats and were saved although the ship herself was totally destroyed the fire claimed all his drawings and papers. Statue of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore based on the original by Thomas Woolner Main article: Shanghai International Settlement 10.2.1 Hawker Centres; Singapore is a major international transport hub in Asia serving some of the busiest sea and air trade routes Changi Airport is an aviation centre for Southeast Asia and a stopover on the Kangaroo Route between Sydney and London. There are eight airports around Singapore but besides Changi Airport the other seven are not open to the public - Seletar Airport Kallang Airport Paya Lebar Air Base Tengah Air Base Sembawang Air Base Changi Air Base and Changi Air Base (East) Singapore Changi Airport hosts a network of over 100 airlines connecting Singapore to some 300 cities in about 70 countries and territories worldwide it has been rated one of the best international airports by international travel magazines including being rated as the world's best airport for the first time in 2006 by Skytrax the national airline is Singapore Airlines! Examples: Republic of Venice Republic of Genoa Republic of Amalfi Republic of Florence Duchy of Milan Papal States 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.