Thus there can be an advantage to having the central bank be independent of the political authority to shield it from the prospect of political pressure to reverse the direction of the policy But even with a seemingly independent central bank a central bank whose hands are not tied to the anti-inflation policy might be deemed as not fully credible; in this case there is an advantage to be had by the central bank being in some way bound to follow through on its policy pronouncements lending it credibility. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said on 15 December 2010 that it would not oppose SGXs takeover of ASX. Jurong Island Desalination Plant (JIDP) Construction commenced 2018 Expected in 2020 137 Tuas Power-Singapore Technologies Marine (TP-STM) consortium, S$23,139 US$36.675 Under Raffles's aegis a large number of ancient monuments in Java were systematically catalogued for the first time The first detailed English-language account of Prambanan was prepared by Colin Mackenzie while Borobudur was surveyed and cleared of vegetation by H C Cornelius!
8 Education Open minded The Port of Singapore run by the port operators PSA International (formerly the Port of Singapore Authority) and Jurong Port is the world's busiest in terms of shipping tonnage handled 1.04 billion gross tons were handled in 2004 crossing the one billion mark for the first time in Singapore's maritime history Singapore also emerged as the top port in terms of cargo tonnage handled with 393 million tonnes of cargo in the same year beating the Port of Rotterdam for the first time in the process In 2006 it handled a total of 448 million tonnes of cargo! Ground Self-Defense Force 11 Media 6.5 Religion Singapore Cruise Centre (SCC) runs Tanah Merah and HarbourFront Ferry Terminals which are connected by ferry services to Indonesian Riau Islands of Batam Bintan and Karimun Commercial ferry services are available for booking with SCC's subsidiary SCC Travel Services which operates wowgetaways.com portal, 3 Non-sovereign city-states Two bus services (services 103 and 117) are available from the old airport terminal Since 14 October 2018 Service 102 also serves the new airport terminal of Seletar Airport with a new bus stop within the Passenger Terminal Building. December 1945 captured Mitsubishi J2M Raiden fighters belonging to the 381st Kokutai of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service being evaluated at Seletar airfield, Spread of Islam and rise of Islamic sultanates, 2 Monetary policy instruments Medisave Trends. Singapore law dating from 1938 (Penal Code s 377A) bans sexual relations between men. . IB Philosophy 1.4 Towards water self-sufficiency (since 2002) There are monasteries and Dharma centres from all three major traditions of Buddhism in Singapore: Theravada Mahayana and Vajrayana Most Buddhists in Singapore are Chinese and are of the Mahayana tradition, with missionaries having come into the country from China for several decades However Thailand's Theravada Buddhism has seen growing popularity among the populace (not only the Chinese) during the past decade The religion of Soka Gakkai International a Japanese Buddhist organisation is practised by many people in Singapore but mostly by those of Chinese descent Tibetan Buddhism has also made slow inroads into the country in recent years; ; Maps based on scientific principles had been made since the time of Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC but Ptolemy improved map projections It is known from a speech by Eumenius that a world map an orbis pictus doubtless based on the Geography was on display in a school in Augustodunum Gaul in the third century in the 15th century Ptolemy's Geography began to be printed with engraved maps; the earliest printed edition with engraved maps was produced in Bologna in 1477 followed quickly by a Roman edition in 1478 (Campbell 1987) An edition printed at Ulm in 1482 including woodcut maps was the first one printed north of the Alps The maps look distorted when compared to modern maps because Ptolemy's data were inaccurate One reason is that Ptolemy estimated the size of the Earth as too small: while Eratosthenes found 700 stadia for a great circle degree on the globe Ptolemy uses 500 stadia in the Geography It is highly probable that these were the same stadion since Ptolemy switched from the former scale to the latter between the Syntaxis and the Geography and severely readjusted longitude degrees accordingly See also Ancient Greek units of measurement and History of geodesy.
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