Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru and his liberal outlook for the country He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah but was aware of his power stating "If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947 that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah." During his meeting with Jinnah on 5 April 1947, Mountbatten tried to persuade Jinnah of a united India citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan. More mountains and highlands help to split the interior into a series of relatively isolated regions suitable for wet-rice cultivation; the rice lands of Java are among the richest in the world. Java was the first place where Indonesian coffee was grown starting in 1699 Today Coffea arabica is grown on the Ijen Plateau by small-holders and larger plantations. Singapore business directory 5 Cooperative partners SBS Transit 1980 91,269,528 +20.0% International and private schools Main article: Religion in Singapore Mee rebus. Monetary policy is the policy adopted by the monetary authority of a country that controls either the interest rate payable on very short-term borrowing or the money supply often targeting inflation or the interest rate to ensure price stability and general trust in the currency, Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Parliament: First programme Australia is in many respects a unique hybrid with influences from the United States Constitution as well as from the traditions and conventions of the Westminster system Australia is exceptional because the government faces a fully elected upper house the Senate which must be willing to pass all its legislation Although government is formed in the lower house the House of Representatives the support of the Senate is necessary in order to govern The Senate maintains the ability similar to that held by the British House of Lords prior to the enactment of the Parliament Act 1911 to block supply against the government of the day A government that is unable to obtain supply can be dismissed by the Governor-General: however this is generally considered a last resort and is a highly controversial decision to take given the conflict between the traditional concept of confidence as derived from the lower house and the ability of the Senate to block supply Many political scientists have held that the Australian system of government was consciously devised as a blend or hybrid of the Westminster and the United States systems of government especially since the Australian Senate is a powerful upper house like the U.S Senate; this notion is expressed in the nickname "the Washminster mutation" the ability of upper houses to block supply also features in the parliaments of most Australian states!
The IB learner profile, In the initial years student must achieve a PSLE aggregate score that puts him in the top 10% of his cohort with an 'A' grade for both the mother tongue and English in order to be entitled to enter an SAP school under the Special academic stream before the educational reforms in the 2000s Currently students are entitled to additional bonus points when applying for SAP high schools with their Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results, (92.8) 36.0 Further information: Languages of Singapore Singapore English and Singlish. A Crystal Mover on the Punggol LRT system at Punggol Station in Singapore. Lemak siput shellfish cooked in a thick coconut milk-based gravy, 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], Raffles was still the Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen when he returned Raffles started more reforms that were by now almost trademarks of his rule over the colonies Forced labour was abolished when he first arrived and he declared Bencoolen a free port as well The currency was regulated and as he had an excess of out-of-work civil servants they formed committees to advise him on the daily running of the colony However Bencoolen was not as self-sufficient as Singapore The area was poor and disease-ridden: the first reports from the committees reflected very poorly upon the condition of the colony Unlike the salutary neglect Raffles granted upon Singapore he delayed European-inspired reforms emphasizing only the cultivation of whatever land was available.
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