. Thinkers In October 2003 acting Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan launched SingaporeMedicine to promote Singapore as a regional medical hub He said more than 200,000 foreigners visited Singapore for medical services in 2002 and that the Economic Review Committee reaffirmed its ambition of serving 1 million foreign patients annually by 2012 in his speech Khaw said. Primary school (Children enter P1 upon the year they turn 7) Merger with Malaysia See also: Language education in Singapore Raffles banned slavery closed all gambling dens prohibited the carrying of weapons and imposed heavy taxation to discourage what he considered vices such as drunkenness and opium smoking. Raffles dismayed at the disarray of the colony also arranged to organise Singapore into functional and ethnic subdivisions under the drafted Raffles Plan of Singapore. Today the remnants of this organisation like the Raffles Town Plan can be found in the ethnic neighbourhoods within public housing estates or various places across Singapore. Each year the Edusave Merit Bursary (EMB) is given out to about 40,000 students who are from lower-middle and low-income families and have good academic performance in their schools. Individual schools also have an "Opportunity Fund" to provide for their own needy students in addition to these there are many other assistance schemes from either the government or welfare organisations to help students cope with finances during their studies, 1869: On 17 November 1869 the Suez Canal opens connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea This allowed for an increase speed of travel time which resulted in a rise in trade volume The nation saw a $32 million dollar rise just a year after its opening. Because he could not travel without effectively acknowledging the authority of the king Pius IX and his successors each claimed to be a "Prisoner in the Vatican" unable to leave the 0.44 km2 (0.17 sq mi) papal enclave once they had ascended the papal thrones, With Diminishing growth rates the country again needed to diversify its economy, An official photo of former prime minister Najib Tun Razak. During the relatively brief British rule in Java Raffles negotiated peace and mounted some significant military expeditions against local Javanese princes to subjugate them to British rule Most significant of these was the assault on Yogyakarta on 21 June 1812; Yogyakarta was one of the two most powerful indigenous polities in Java During the attack the Yogyakarta kraton was badly damaged and extensively looted by British troops Raffles seized much of the contents of the court archive The event was unprecedented in Javanese history It was the first time an indigenous court had been taken by storm by a European army and the humiliation of the local aristocracy was profound. Although peace returned to Central Java in the immediate aftermath of the British assault the events may have fuelled the deep-seated instability and hostility to European involvement that ultimately gave rise to the Java War of the 1820s. Raffles also ordered an expedition to Palembang in Sumatra to unseat the local sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II and to seize the nearby Bangka Island to set up a permanent British presence in the area in the case of the return of Java to Dutch rule after the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition in Europe.
During the Second World War the Imperial Japanese Army invaded British Malaya culminating in the Battle of Singapore When the British force of 60,000 troops surrendered on 15 February 1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the defeat "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history. British losses during the fighting for Singapore were heavy with a total of nearly 85,000 personnel captured in addition to losses during the earlier fighting in Malaya. About 5,000 were killed or wounded, of which Australians made up the majority. Japanese casualties during the fighting in Singapore amounted to 1,714 killed and 3,378 wounded.[Note 2] the occupation was to become a major turning point in the histories of several nations including those of Japan Britain and the then-colonial state of Singapore Japanese newspapers triumphantly declared the victory as deciding the general situation of the war. Singapore was renamed Syonan-to (??? Shonan-to) meaning "Light of the South". Between 5,000 and 25,000 ethnic Chinese people were killed in the subsequent Sook Ching massacre. . . Singapore business directory Money transfer/remittance companies and bureaux de change 1.4 Directors Real estate Singapore is the second-largest foreign investor in India. It is the 14th largest exporter and the 15th largest importer in the world.
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