In 1818 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the British colony at Bencoolen Raffles believed that the British should find a way to challenge the dominance of the Dutch in the area The trade route between China and British India passed through the Malacca Strait and with the growing trade with China that route would become increasingly important However the Dutch had tight control over the trade in the region and intended to enforce the exclusive rights of its company ships to trade and that trade should be conducted at its entrepot Batavia British trading ships were heavily taxed at Dutch ports stifling British trade in the region! ! 5 Political and human geography Life in Singapore, 7 References The Earth receives an influx of ionized particles known as cosmic rays from a variety of external sources including the Sun A hypothesis holds that an increase in the cosmic ray flux would increase the ionization in the atmosphere leading to greater cloud cover This in turn would tend to cool the surface The non-solar cosmic ray flux may vary as a result of a nearby supernova event the solar system passing through a dense interstellar cloud or the oscillatory movement of the Sun's position with respect to the galactic plane The latter can increase the flux of high-energy cosmic rays coming from the Virgo cluster, Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China portal. . The pattern of executive functions within a Westminster System is quite complex In essence the head of state usually a monarch or president is a ceremonial figurehead who is the theoretical nominal or de jure source of executive power within the system In practice such a figure does not actively exercise executive powers even though executive authority may be exercised in their name! The Port of Singapore managed by port operators PSA International and Jurong Port was the world's second-busiest port in 2005 in terms of shipping tonnage handled at 1.15 billion gross tons and in terms of containerised traffic at 23.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) It is also the world's second-busiest behind Shanghai in terms of cargo tonnage with 423 million tons handled In addition the port is the world's busiest for transshipment traffic and the world's biggest ship refuelling centre, Satay stalls along Boon Tat Street next to Telok Ayer Market better known as Lau Pa Sat, 'Washminster' system of Australia 9 Conflict with China In Singapore madrasahs are full-time religious institutions that offer a pedagogical mix of Islamic religious education and secular education in their curricula There are currently six madrasahs in Singapore offering primary to tertiary education namely Aljunied Al-Islamiah Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiah Al-Maarif Al-Islamiah Alsagoff Al-Arabiah Al-Arabiah Al-Islamiah and Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah Four of them are co-educational while the other two offer madrasah education exclusively to girls. Allegations were made that several delegates who had voted were drawn from UMNO branches not properly registered There were also several unproved allegations being bandied about that the balloting process had not been above board.
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