. After the Japanese surrender to the Allies on 15 August 1945 Singapore fell into a brief state of violence and disorder; looting and revenge-killing were widespread British troops led by Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander for Southeast Asia Command returned to Singapore to receive formal surrender of the Japanese forces in the region from General Itagaki Seishiro on behalf of General Hisaichi Terauchi on 12 September 1945 and a British Military Administration was formed to govern the island until March 1946 Much of the infrastructure had been destroyed during the war including harbour facilities at the Port of Singapore There was also a shortage of food leading to malnutrition disease and rampant crime and violence High food prices unemployment and workers' discontent culminated into a series of strikes in 1947 causing massive stoppages in public transport and other services By late 1947 the economy began to recover facilitated by a growing demand for tin and rubber around the world but it would take several more years before the economy returned to pre-war levels. Esplanade performing arts centre fronting Marina Bay Cost Comparison of Procedures in Public/Private Hospitals 1.3 Canback Consulting In 1969 Mountbatten tried unsuccessfully to persuade his cousin the Spanish pretender Infante Juan Count of Barcelona to ease the eventual accession of his son Juan Carlos to the Spanish throne by signing a declaration of abdication while in exile the next year Mountbatten attended an official White House dinner during which he took the opportunity to have a 20-minute conversation with Richard Nixon and Secretary of State William P Rogers about which he later wrote "I was able to talk to the President a bit about both Tino [Constantine II of Greece] and Juanito [Juan Carlos of Spain] to try and put over their respective points of view about Greece and Spain and how I felt the US could help them." in January 1971 Nixon hosted Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia (sister of the exiled King Constantine) during a visit to Washington and later that year the Washington Post published an article alleging that Nixon's administration was seeking to get Franco to retire in favour of the young Bourbon prince. ; Singapore business directory Towards water self-sufficiency (since 2002) 3.2 Military 10 See also Straits Settlements. ; National Diet Tokyo Japan Historical climatology is the study of historical changes in climate and their effect on human history and development The primary sources include written records such as sagas chronicles maps and local history literature as well as pictorial representations such as paintings drawings and even rock art, Cooperation and merger talks with LSE.
! Allegations were made that several delegates who had voted were drawn from UMNO branches not properly registered There were also several unproved allegations being bandied about that the balloting process had not been above board. Cultural policy Also in 1823 Raffles drafted a series of administrative regulations for Singapore which followed a fair and moralistic stance outlawing gambling imposing heavy taxation on what he considered social evils such as drunkenness and opium-smoking and banned slavery.:40 a specific regulation in the constitution called for the multiethnic population to remain as they were; and no crimes were entirely based on racial principles Raffles worked on drafting laws defining exactly "what" constituted a criminal act Finally on 9 June 1823 feeling that his work in establishing Singapore was finished he boarded a ship for home but not before a stop in Batavia to visit his old home and adversary van der Capellen A final stop in Bencoolen followed Tragedy befell Raffles once more when his youngest daughter Flora Nightingall born on 19 September died a little over one month later on 28 November while still in Bencoolen. 7 World War I, Market open 9:00 am 11:59 am, A significant port and settlement known as Temasek later renamed Singapura existed on the island of Singapore in the 14th century Vietnamese records indicate possible diplomatic relationship between Temasek and Vietnam in the 13th century and Chinese documents describe settlements there in the 14th century it was likely a vassal state of both the Majapahit Empire and the Siamese at different times in the 14th century. Around the end of the 14th century its ruler Parameswara was attacked by either the Majapahit or the Siamese forcing him to move on to Melaka where he founded the Sultanate of Malacca, Archaeological evidence suggests that the main settlement on present-day Fort Canning was abandoned around this time although a small-scale trading settlement continued in Singapore for some time afterwards. Between the 16th and 19th centuries the Malay archipelago was gradually taken over by the European colonial powers beginning with the Portuguese conquest of the Malacca Sultanate in 1511 In 1613 the Portuguese burnt down a trading settlement at the mouth of the Singapore River after which Singapore lapsed into insignificance in the history of the region for two hundred years.
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