5.1 International trade agreements The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is a British business within the Economist Group providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis such as monthly country reports five-year country economic forecasts country risk service reports and industry reports. Java lies between Sumatra to the west and Bali to the east Borneo lies to the north and Christmas Island is to the south It is the world's 13th largest island Java is surrounded by the Java Sea to the north Sunda Strait to the west the Indian Ocean to the south and Bali Strait and Madura Strait in the east, 15 International comparisons (10.18) 318.6 Performing arts, In 1805 he was sent to Prince of Wales Island Malaya starting his long association with Southeast Asia He started with a post as assistant secretary under the Honourable Philip Dundas the new Governor of Penang at this time he also made the acquaintance of Thomas Otho Travers who would accompany him for the next twenty years.[citation needed]. See also: Gardens by the Bay and Singapore Botanic Gardens.
; Tea plantation in Java during Dutch colonial period in or before 1926, Trishaws After a brief survey of the Karimun Islands on 29 January 1819 he established a post at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula It was established that there was no Dutch presence on the island of Singapore Johore also no longer had any control of the area so contact was made with the Temenggong Abdul Rahman The contacts were friendly and Raffles knowledgeable about the muddled political situation took advantage to provide a rudimentary treaty between the nominal chiefs of the area that called for the exclusivity of trade and the British protection of the area Members of Raffles' party surveyed the island and proceeded to request the presence of the sultan or whoever at the time had supreme nominal power to sign a formal treaty while Major Farquhar was ordered to do the same in Rhio (Riau) A few days later the formal treaty was signed by a man who claimed to be the "lawful sovereign of the whole of territories extending from Lingga and Johor to Mount Muar." This man was Hussein Shah who although having had no previous contact with the British had certainly heard of the might of the British navy and was in no position to argue against the terms However Raffles was able to charm the man and to reassure him that the Dutch posed no threat in the area Hussein Shah had been the crown Prince of Johor but while he was away in Pahang to get married his father died and his younger brother was made sultan supported by some of the court officials and the Dutch To circumvent the situation of having to negotiate with a sultan influenced by the Dutch Raffles decided to recognise on behalf of the British Crown Hussein Shah as being the rightful ruler of Johor. .
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