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11 See also RUB (?) 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). Further goals of a monetary policy are usually to contribute to the stability of gross domestic product to achieve and maintain low unemployment and to maintain predictable exchange rates with other currencies. Bilingualism or mother tongue policy is a cornerstone of the Singapore education system While English is the first language and the medium of instruction in schools most students are required to take a "Mother Tongue" subject which could be one of the three official languages: Standard Mandarin Malay or Tamil A non-Tamil Indian may choose to offer Tamil or a non-official language such as Bengali Gujarati Hindi Punjabi or Urdu However Chinese students from a non-Mandarin background such as Cantonese speakers must learn Mandarin and students with Indonesian background must learn Malay Non-Chinese Malay or Indian students may choose to learn either one of these languages (Usually the Japanese Koreans and Southeast Asians who are not from Malay or Indonesian origin will choose Chinese) Mother Tongue is a compulsory examinable subject at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) and the GCE "N" "O" and "A" level examinations Students are required to achieve a certain level of proficiency in what the government considers their mother tongue as a pre-requisite for admission to local universities Students returning from overseas may be exempted from this policy. Music The government has planned the fourth autonomous university Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) to meet the rising demand for university education it started its operations in April 2012. Its permanent campus at Changi was opened in early 2015.

3.2 Military 13.1 Stand-up comedy Bond valuation Corporate bond Fixed income Government bond High-yield debt Municipal bond. The VOC set their foothold on Batavia in the 17th century and was succeeded by the Dutch East Indies in the 19th century During these colonial times the Dutch introduced the cultivation of commercial plants in Java such as sugarcane rubber coffee tea and quinine In the 19th and early 20th century Javanese coffee gained global popularity Thus the name "Java" today has become a synonym for coffee, 1.3 The New Economic Policy Post-World War II Companies linked to the government control much of the domestic media in Singapore. MediaCorp operates most free-to-air television channels and free-to-air radio stations in Singapore There are a total of seven free-to-air TV channels offered by Mediacorp. Starhub Cable Vision (SCV) also offers cable television with channels from all around the world and Singtel's Mio TV provides an IPTV service. Singapore Press Holdings a body with close links to the government controls most of the newspaper industry in Singapore. (9.24) 112.8 Corsetti Dedola and Leduc (2011) summarize the status quo of research on international monetary policy prescriptions: "Optimal monetary policy thus should target a combination of inward-looking variables such as output gap and inflation with currency misalignment and cross-country demand misallocation by leaning against the wind of misaligned exchange rates and international imbalances." This is main factor in country money status, Airline and destination IB Mathematical Studies SL, (69.4) 19.7 Singapore's main territory is a diamond-shaped island although its territory includes surrounding smaller islands The farthest outlying island is Pedra Branca Of Singapore's dozens of smaller islands Jurong Island Pulau Tekong Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the larger ones Most of Singapore is no more than 15 metres above sea level. 1.1 Mammals Human activities can also change earth's climate and are presently driving climate change through global warming. There is no general agreement in scientific media or policy documents as to the precise term to be used to refer to anthropogenic forced change; either "global warming" or "climate change" may be used the first describes the average effect on a global scale whilst the second describes how different geographical regions are affected differently. Singapore was one of only two countries in ASEAN that was not a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which mandates that persons with disabilities should be guaranteed the right to inclusive education. Instead in Singapore "any child who is unable to attend any national primary school due to any physical or intellectual disability" is exempted from compulsory education and there are no public schools for such children. Instead they may attend special education schools built largely by the Ministry of Education and run by voluntary welfare organisations These schools receive more than 80% of their funding from the Ministry of Education but have long waiting lists according to Member of Parliament Sylvia Lim the Singapore government has asserted that only "a very small number of children do not attend school each year" giving a figure of 8 students as compared to a primary school intake of roughly 43000 and that requiring all special needs children to attend school would "impose unduly harsh requirements on their parents." This practice has been described as a "form of discrimination" by Sylvia Lim the Convention was ratified in July 2013 and made effective on 18 August the same year. 5 Airline and destination, British Colonization 6 General election results, Singapore ceased to be part of the British Empire when it merged with Malaysia in 1963 Singapore lost its hinterland and was no longer the administrative or economic capital of the Malay Peninsula The processing in Singapore of raw materials extracted in the Peninsula was drastically reduced due to the absence of a common market between Singapore and the Peninsular states.