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Control tower of Singapore Changi Airport Singapore's economic strategy produced real growth averaging 8.0% from 1960 to 1999 Since the nations independence in 1965 Singapore GDP has amassed an average of a 9.5% increase the economy picked up in 1999 Under Goh Chok Tong the Prime Minister of Singapore after the regional financial crisis with a growth rate of 5.4% followed by 9.9% for 2000 However the economic slowdown in the United States Japan and the European Union as well as the worldwide electronics slump had reduced the estimated economic growth in 2001 to a negative 2.0%. Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Acquisitions 1825 survey map Singapore's free port trade was at Singapore River for 150 years Fort Canning hill (centre) was home to its ancient and early colonial rulers, A wider effect of this division is the number of sects In the middle of 1956 the Department of Religious Affairs in Yogyakarta reported 63 religious sects in Java other than the official Indonesian religions Of these 35 were in Central Java 22 in West Java and six in East Java. These include Kejawen Sumarah Subud etc Their total membership is difficult to estimate as many of their adherents identify themselves with one of the official religions. . 10.1 Texts and translations Photo gallery Singapore is a very small heavily urbanised island city-state in Southeast Asia located at the end of the Malayan Peninsula between Malaysia and Indonesia Singapore has a total land area of 721.5 square kilometres (278.6 sq mi). Curry laksa a Peranakan dish of vermicelli noodles and fried bean curd served in a creamy coconut sauce with slices of shrimp fish and cockles Can be served in a tamarind-filled variant with shredded mackerel and mangosteen, 1.3 Canback Consulting Singapore maintains tight restrictions on arts and cultural performances Most artistic works have to be vetted by the government in advance and topics that breach so-called out of bounds markers (OB markers) are not permitted While the OB markers are not publicly defined they are generally assumed to include sensitive topics such as race religion and allegations of corruption or nepotism in government Nudity and other forms of loosely defined "obscenity" are also banned Singaporean film director Royston Tan has produced movies which challenge these policies including a movie called Cut in reference to censorship of the arts, The island's exceptional fertility and rainfall allowed the development of wet-field rice cultivation which required sophisticated levels of cooperation between villages Out of these village alliances small kingdoms developed The chain of volcanic mountains and associated highlands running the length of Java kept its interior regions and peoples separate and relatively isolated. Before the advent of Islamic states and European colonialism the rivers provided the main means of communication although Java's many rivers are mostly short Only the Brantas and Sala rivers could provide long-distance communication and this way their valleys supported the centres of major kingdoms A system of roads permanent bridges and toll gates is thought to have been established in Java by at least the mid-17th century Local powers could disrupt the routes as could the wet season and road use was highly dependent on constant maintenance Consequently communication between Java's population was difficult.

Poverty and economic inequality Temperature record of the past 1000 years IB Global Politics 3.1.4 Nominal income/NGDP targeting. Water sports are some of the most popular in Singapore At the 2016 Rio Olympics Joseph Schooling won Singapore's first Olympic gold medal claiming the 100-metre butterfly in a new Olympic record time of 50.39 seconds Three swimmers including Michael Phelps were in an unprecedented three-way tie for silver. Singapore sailors have had success on the international stage with their Optimist team being considered among the best in the world Despite its size the country has dominated swim meets in the Southeast Asia Games (SEA) Its men water polo team has won the SEA Games gold medal for the 27th time in 2017 continuing Singapore sport's longest winning streak. Since the 1990s when the National Arts Council was created to spearhead the development of performing arts visual and literary art forms to hasten a vibrant cosmopolitan "gateway between the East and West"; . 5 History 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 Changi Airport WSSS SIN Civilian Paved 13200 4000 1.3 Canback Consulting Universities "The system of meritocracy in Singapore ensures that the best and brightest regardless of race religion and socio-economic background are encouraged to develop to their fullest potential Everyone has access to education which equips them with skills and knowledge to earn a better living." Indeed the Education in Singapore ensures that primary education is compulsory for all children of age 7 to 12 Parents have to apply for exemptions from the Ministry of Education in Singapore to excuse their children under this compulsory rule with valid reasonings! Main article: Special Assistance Plan However uncodified conventions practices and precedents continue to play a significant role in most countries as many constitutions do not specify important elements of procedure: for example some older constitutions using the Westminster system do not mention the existence of the cabinet or the prime minister because these offices were taken for granted by the authors of these constitutions Sometimes these conventions reserve powers and other influences collide in times of crisis and in such times the weaknesses of the unwritten aspects of the Westminster system as well as the strengths of the Westminster system's flexibility are put to the test As an illustrative example in the Australian constitutional crises of 1975 the Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and replaced him with opposition leader Malcolm Fraser.