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. PISA test documents on a school table (Neues Gymnasium Oldenburg Germany 2006), In recognition of Singapore's linguistic and cultural pluralism another stated objective of the bilingual policy is to educate students with their "mother tongues" so that they can learn about their culture identify with their ethnic roots and to preserve cultural traits and Asian values. Within the Chinese population Mandarin is promoted as a common language and other Chinese dialects are discouraged to better integrate the community In 1979 the Speak Mandarin Campaign was launched to further advance this goal! The foreign exchange market (Forex FX or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies This market determines foreign exchange rates for every currency It includes all aspects of buying selling and exchanging currencies at current or determined prices In terms of trading volume it is by far the largest market in the world followed by the Credit market. Imperial Japanese rations Recent climate.

See also: List of universities and colleges in Singapore 9 See also 10 Madrasahs 1.1 Ancient and medieval world 10.4 Media 6.4 Malaysia A multilingual warning sign in Singapore's four official languages: English Chinese Tamil Malay! . Hong Kong a former British crown colony and currently a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China has a unicameral Legislative Council While the Legislative Councils in British Australasian and North American colonies were unelected upper houses and some of them had since abolished themselves the Legislative Council of Hong Kong has remained the sole chamber and had in 1995 evolved into a fully elected house yet only part of the seats are returned by universal suffrage Responsible government was never granted during British colonial rule and the Governor remained the head of government until the transfer of sovereignty in 1997 when the role was replaced by the Chief Executive Secretaries had remained to be chosen by the Chief Executive not from the Legislative Council and their appointments need not be approved by the Legislative Council Although essentially more presidential than parliamentary the Legislative Council had inherited many elements of the Westminster system including parliamentary powers privileges and immunity and the right to conduct inquiries amongst others Minutes are known as Hansards and the theme colour of the meeting chamber is red as in other upper houses Government secretaries and other officials are seated on the right hand side of the President in the chamber The Chief Executive may dissolve the Legislative Council under certain conditions and is obliged to resign e.g when a re-elected Legislative Council passes again a bill that he or she had refused to sign, Gordon Ramsay participated in a 'Hawker Heroes Challenge' held in Singapore in 2013 and he lost 6% of the overall vote Losing to Ryan Koh representing 328 Katong Laksa and Foo Kui Lian representing Tian Tian Chicken Rice he graciously accepted defeat He mentioned being in absolute awe of the hawkers and was humbled by how they welcomed him into their kitchens and taught him to cook! Monetary policy Further contrasts that prevent true all-year uniformity are the monsoon seasons which happen twice each year The first one is the Northeast Monsoon which occurs from mid-November to early March The second is the Southwest Monsoon season which occurs from June to September Periods between monsoon seasons receive less rain and wind During the Northeast Monsoon northeast winds prevail sometimes reach 20 km/h (12 mph) There are cloudy conditions in December and January with frequent afternoon showers, (96.4) 35.4 10.2 Cuisine 5.3 Tourism Airlines Destinations, Monetary aggregates/money supply targeting. Solar output Heliports Singapore business directory 1.1% 1.4.3 After 1973. . Mountbatten was educated at home for the first 10 years of his life: he was then sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire and on to the Royal Naval College Osborne in May 1913. His mother's younger sister was Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family harbouring romantic feelings towards his maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life, The history of common water supply in Singapore began with the construction of the MacRitchie Reservoir which was built by the British in 1866 The Lower Peirce Reservoir and the Upper Seletar Reservoir were completed in 1913 and 1949 respectively in order to supply the rapidly modernising colonial city with sufficient water In 1927 the municipal leadership of Singapore and Sultan Ibrahim of the state and territories of Johor in neighboring Malaya signed an agreement that allowed Singapore to rent land in Johor and use its water for free The Municipal Water Department under David J Murnane began importing raw water from Gunong Pulai in 1927 and filtered water on 31 December 1929 The water filtration and pipeline capacity from Gunong Pulai was doubled in 1939. Another pipeline was built to return a smaller quantity of treated water to Johor.[citation needed] During the Battle of Singapore in 1942 the Causeway that links Singapore with Malaya and that carries the pipeline was blown up by retreating British troops thus unintentionally destroying the pipeline which left Singapore with water reserves that could last at most two weeks. According to Lee Kuan Yew this was one of his motives to envision water self-sufficiency for Singapore later when he became the city-state's Prime Minister. .