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4 Instrument Landing System (ILS) Controversy With Malaysia Singapore business directory, See also: NEWater Nagasari a rice snack with Indonesian origins. 5 Founding of modern Singapore Meritocracy Rank Currency ISO 4217 code.

Military Singapore is relatively safe from seismic activity in the region as the nearest major active faults (Sumatran fault and Sunda megathrust fault) are hundreds of kilometres away in Indonesia However the population and buildings are prone to being only very slightly affected by any activity as tremors which is not uncommon but generally does not do any harm and is limited to small amounts of swaying or vibration of objects. 4.1 Banking Hong Kong a former British crown colony and currently a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China has a unicameral Legislative Council While the Legislative Councils in British Australasian and North American colonies were unelected upper houses and some of them had since abolished themselves the Legislative Council of Hong Kong has remained the sole chamber and had in 1995 evolved into a fully elected house yet only part of the seats are returned by universal suffrage Responsible government was never granted during British colonial rule and the Governor remained the head of government until the transfer of sovereignty in 1997 when the role was replaced by the Chief Executive Secretaries had remained to be chosen by the Chief Executive not from the Legislative Council and their appointments need not be approved by the Legislative Council Although essentially more presidential than parliamentary the Legislative Council had inherited many elements of the Westminster system including parliamentary powers privileges and immunity and the right to conduct inquiries amongst others Minutes are known as Hansards and the theme colour of the meeting chamber is red as in other upper houses Government secretaries and other officials are seated on the right hand side of the President in the chamber The Chief Executive may dissolve the Legislative Council under certain conditions and is obliged to resign e.g when a re-elected Legislative Council passes again a bill that he or she had refused to sign. Gardens and gardening have a special place in Singaporean culture as well as in politics Historically this is all officially attributed to Lee Kuan Yew who apparently spearheaded this philosophy in 1963. In a rare interview with Monty Don shown in the TV series Around the World in 80 Gardens Lee Kuan Yew reveals that after visits to other big Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Bangkok he feared that Singapore would turn into another concrete jungle and he decided that gardens and parks should be established everywhere and made this a priority of the government, 7.1 Religion NEWater is the brand name given to ultra-pure water that is produced from reclaimed water Wastewater which is called used water in Singapore is treated in conventional advanced wastewater treatment plants that are called reclamation plants in Singapore The effluent from the reclamation plants is either discharged into the sea or it is further treated in NEWater plants using dual-membrane (via microfiltration and reverse osmosis) and ultraviolet technologies, Language development Airport and airbase technical data Under the 1912 Straits Settlements Port Ordinance the Singapore Harbour Board was formed on 1 July 1913. On 1 April 1964 the Port of Singapore Authority came into being under the 1963 Port of Singapore Authority Ordinance to replace the Singapore Harbour Board and several organisations that have been operating in the port.