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Singapore's name comes from 'Singa Pura' which means Lion City in Sanskrit and 'Singam oor' which means city of lions in Tamil According to the Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals) a Sumatran prince called Sang Nila Utama landed on Temasek (Singapore's old name) and saw a Lion which is called 'Singa' in Malay Thus he gave the island a new name 'Singapura', Main article: Politics of Singapore, Singaporean desserts have a varied history A typical food court or hawker centre dessert stall will usually have a large variety of desserts available including but not limited to:. Prior to the foundation of Malacca ancient and medieval references to a Malay peninsula exist in various foreign sources According to several Indian scholars the word Malayadvipa ("mountain-insular continent") mentioned in the ancient Indian text Vayu Purana may possibly refer to the Malay peninsula. Another Indian source an inscription on the south wall of the Brihadeeswarar Temple recorded the word Malaiur referring to a kingdom in Malay peninsula that had "a strong mountain for its rampart" the Greek source Geographia written by Ptolemy labelled a geographical part of Golden Chersonese as Maleu-kolon a term thought to derive from Sanskrit malayakolam or malaikurram. While the Chinese chronicle of Yuan dynasty mentioned the word Ma-li-yu-er referring to a nation of Malay peninsula that threatened by the southward expansion of Sukhothai Kingdom under King Ram Khamhaeng. During the same era Marco Polo made a reference to Malauir in his travelogue as a kingdom located in the Malay peninsula possibly similar to the one mentioned in Yuan chronicle The Malay Peninsula was conflated with Persia in old Japan and was known by the same name In the early 20th century the term Tanah Melayu was generally used by the Malays of the peninsula during the rise of Malay nationalism to describe uniting all Malay states on the peninsula under one Malay nation although this ambition was largely realised with the formation of Persekutuan Tanah Melayu (Malay for "Federation of Malaya") in 1948.

1975 US$5.789 Cruise Business Singapore's media industry has sometimes been criticised for being overly regulated and lacking in freedom by human rights groups such as Freedom House. Self-censorship among journalists is said to be common in 2014 Singapore dipped to its lowest ranking ever (153rd of 180 nations) on the Press Freedom Index published by the French Reporters Without Borders the Media Development Authority regulates Singaporean media claiming to balance the demand for choice and protection against offensive and harmful material, Ice cream sandwich 1965: Upon independence from Malaysia Singapore faced a small domestic market and high levels of unemployment and poverty 70 percent of Singapore's households lived in badly overcrowded conditions and a third of its people squatted in slums on the city fringes Unemployment averaged 14 percent GDP per capita was US$516 and half of the population was illiterate! ! Risk aversion Ptolemy wrote in ancient Greek and can be shown to have utilized Babylonian astronomical data. He might have been a Roman citizen but was ethnically either a Greek or a Hellenized Egyptian. He was often known in later Arabic sources as "the Upper Egyptian", suggesting he may have had origins in southern Egypt. Later Arabic astronomers geographers and physicists referred to him by his name in Arabic: ???????????? Ba?lumyus, 3 Causes Reacting to Singapore's releases of the correspondences Loke said on 10 December 2018 that Singapore was being partial and selective in the choice of correspondences it published and he challenged Singapore to release four other letters dated 9 October 2018 15 21 and 28 November 2018 which Singapore failed to do so. Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX SGX: S68) is an investment holding company located in Singapore and provides different services related to securities and derivatives trading and others. SGX is a member of the World Federation of Exchanges and the Asian and Oceanian Stock Exchanges Federation. S$10,714 US$11.899 Singapore business directory Foreign exchange is traded in an over-the-counter market where brokers/dealers negotiate directly with one another so there is no central exchange or clearing house The biggest geographic trading center is the United Kingdom primarily London According to TheCityUK it is estimated that London increased its share of global turnover in traditional transactions from 34.6% in April 2007 to 36.7% in April 2010 Owing to London's dominance in the market a particular currency's quoted price is usually the London market price For instance when the International Monetary Fund calculates the value of its special drawing rights every day they use the London market prices at noon that day.