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Mountbatten making an address on the steps of Municipal Building in Singapore 1945 Also in 1823 Raffles drafted a series of administrative regulations for Singapore which followed a fair and moralistic stance outlawing gambling imposing heavy taxation on what he considered social evils such as drunkenness and opium-smoking and banned slavery.:40 a specific regulation in the constitution called for the multiethnic population to remain as they were; and no crimes were entirely based on racial principles Raffles worked on drafting laws defining exactly "what" constituted a criminal act Finally on 9 June 1823 feeling that his work in establishing Singapore was finished he boarded a ship for home but not before a stop in Batavia to visit his old home and adversary van der Capellen A final stop in Bencoolen followed Tragedy befell Raffles once more when his youngest daughter Flora Nightingall born on 19 September died a little over one month later on 28 November while still in Bencoolen. 250,000 Special Garrison Force, Reports Singapore is a global hub for education, entertainment, finance healthcare, human capital, innovation, logistics, manufacturing, technology, tourism, trade and transport the city ranks highly in numerous international rankings and has been recognised as the most "technology-ready" nation (WEF) top International-meetings city (UIA), city with "best investment potential" (BERI) world's smartest city, world's safest country, world's most competitive economy. third least-corrupt country third-largest foreign exchange market third-largest financial centre third-largest oil refining and trading centre fifth-most innovative country and the second-busiest container port the Economist has ranked Singapore as the most expensive city to live in since 2013. It is identified as a tax haven Singapore is the only country in Asia with an AAA sovereign rating from all major rating agencies and one of 11 worldwide Globally the Port of Singapore and Changi Airport have held the titles of leading "Maritime Capital" and "Best Airport" respectively for consecutive years while Singapore Airlines is the 2018 "World's Best Airline". Singapore ranks highly at 9th on the UN Human Development Index with the 2nd highest GDP per capita It is placed highly in key social indicators: education healthcare life expectancy quality of life personal safety and housing 90% of homes are owner-occupied According to the Democracy Index the country is described as a "flawed democracy" Singapore is ranked 1st in the world on the Global Food Security Index it also ranks as one of the most peaceful countries in the world, Issues Estimated global land precipitation increased by approximately 2% over the course of the 20th century though the calculated trend varies if different time endpoints are chosen complicated by ENSO and other oscillations including greater global land cloud cover precipitation in the 1950s and 1970s than the later 1980s and 1990s despite the positive trend over the century overall. Similar slight overall increase in global river runoff and in average soil moisture has been perceived!
7 World War I, In 2006 the Singapore government identified water as a new growth sector and committed to invest S$330 million over the following five years in order to make Singapore a global hub for water research and development. PUB has an active research and development program that includes upstream research pilot projects and demonstration projects an Environment and Water Industry Development Council (EWI) has been established to support together with the National Research Foundation a Strategic Research Programme on Clean Water, Main article: Economy of Singapore Ice cores. Changi Airport Group (CAG) the airport operator for Changi and Seletar said that it had been working with Firefly since 2014 to prepare for Firefly's shift to Seletar airport as part of a plan to move all turboprop aircraft movements out of Changi airport and that Singapore has made all preparations and approved all applications by Firefly to commence scheduled turboprop operations at Seletar airport from 1 December 2018 without affecting operational efficiency or flight safety. In the mid-19th century Japan had no unified national army and the country was made up of feudal domains (han) with the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) in overall control which had ruled Japan since 1603 The bakufu army although large force was only one among others and bakufu efforts to control the nation depended upon the cooperation of its vassals' armies the opening of the country after two centuries of seclusion subsequently led to the Meiji Restoration and the Boshin War in 1868 The domains of Satsuma and Choshu came to dominate the coalition against the shogunate.
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