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. Singapore's successful housing policies evolves with new designs Pinnacle@Duxton near Chinatown has become a tourist attraction with gardens and views from its 50th storey skybridges - the world's longest at 500m. These early studies were revised and combined by the IEA to create TIMSS which was first administered in 1995 It was the largest international student assessment study of its time and evaluated students in five grades In the second cycle (1999) only eighth-grade students were tested In the next cycles (2003 2007 2011 and 2015) both 4th and 8th grade students were assessed The 2011 cycle was performed in the same year as the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) offering a comprehensive assessment of mathematics science and reading for the countries participating in both studies The sixth cycle was conducted in 2015 and the results were released in 2016; the data set was published in February 2017 TIMSS 2015 included data collected from parents for the first time. TIMSS Advanced previously conducted in 1995 and 2008 was also conducted in 2015 and assessed final-year secondary students' achievement in advanced mathematics and physics Policy-relevant data about curriculum emphasis technology use and teacher preparation and training accompanies the TIMSS Advanced results. . Singapore hosted the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in which 3,600 athletes from 204 nations competed in 26 sports the island is home to ONE Championship the biggest Mixed Martial Arts promotion in Asia, Meritocracy is a fundamental ideology in Singapore and a fundamental principle in the education system which aims to identify and groom bright young students for positions of leadership The system places a great emphasis on academic performance in grading students and granting their admission to special programmes and universities though this has raised concerns about breeding elitism. Academic grades are considered as objective measures of the students' ability and effort irrespective of their social background. Having good academic credentials is seen as the most important factor for the students' career prospects in the job market and their future economic status, The 10 public hospitals comprise 7 general hospitals (SGH NUH CGH TTSH KTPH NTFGH & SKH) an integrated hospital (AH) a women's and children's hospital (KKH) and a psychiatric hospital (IMH) in addition there are 9 national specialty centres for cancer (NCCS) cardiac (NHCS) eye (SNEC) skin (NSC) neuroscience (NNI) dental care (NDCS) and a medical centre for multiple disciplines (NCIS NUHCS & NUCOHS). . Foreign exchange fixing Information and communications 1.4.1 After World War II, 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". 2014 US$308.051 4 Bencoolen (Bengkulu) and Malaya (Malaysia), vte The European Central Bank adopted in 1998 a definition of price stability within the Eurozone as inflation of under 2% HICP In 2003 this was revised to inflation below but close to 2% over the medium term Since then the target of 2% has become common for other major central banks including the Federal Reserve (since January 2012) and Bank of Japan (since January 2013), Singapore is the occasional home of 395 species of birds (out of which roughly 180 species are resident birds).

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