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A multilingual warning sign in Singapore's four official languages: English Chinese Tamil Malay. Raffles returned to British Bencoolen (Sumatra) the day after the signing of the treaty leaving Major William Farquhar as the Resident and Commandant of the new settlement, supported initially by some artillery and a single regiment of Indian soldiers Establishing a trading port from scratch was in itself a daunting prospect but Farquhar's administration was in addition practically unfunded as Raffles did not wish his superiors to view Singapore as a liability In addition it was forbidden from earning revenue by imposing port duties Raffles having decided from the outset that Singapore would be a free port, its huge trading volume representing the largest asset class in the world leading to high liquidity; (6.16) 154.6 See also: Volcanoes of Java Singapore business directory. SingHealth Under the harsh conditions of the island his wife Olivia died on 26 November 1814 an event that devastated Raffles In 1815 he left again for England shortly before the island of Java was returned to control of the Netherlands following the Napoleonic Wars under the terms of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 Raffles had been removed from his post by the East India Company ahead of the handover and officially replaced by John Fendall on account of the poor financial performance of the colony during his administration and allegations of financial impropriety on his own part He sailed to England in early 1816 to clear his name and en route visited Napoleon who was in exile at St Helena but found him unpleasant and unimpressive. In 1818 Raffles managed to convince Lord Hastings the then governor-general of India and his superior in the British East India Company to fund an expedition to establish a new British base in the region but with the proviso that it should not antagonise the Dutch. Raffles then searched for several weeks He found several islands that seemed promising but were either already occupied by the Dutch or lacked a suitable harbour. In January 2011 the Unit released the Government Broadband Index (gBBi) that assesses countries on the basis of government planning as opposed to current broadband capability With ambitious targets for both the speed and coverage of next-generation broadband networks the developed countries of Southeast Asia scored highest According to the index Greece is the worst-performing country measured due to its relatively low coverage target and drawn-out deployment schedule Greece also suffers due to the considerable size of its public-funding commitment as a percentage of overall government budget revenues and because its plan does little to encourage competition. Ornate details on top of Sri Mariamman Temple in Chinatown district Singapore's oldest Hindu temple since 1827.

. A Short Singapore Mk III flying boat similar to those operated by 205 Sqn, Singapore business directory Japanese artillery unit at the Koishikawa arsenal Tokyo in 1882 Photographed by Hugues Krafft. The Japanese invasion of Taiwan under Qing rule in 1874 was a punitive expedition by Japanese military forces in response to the Mudan Incident of December 1871 The Paiwan people who are indigenous peoples of Taiwan murdered 54 crewmembers of a wrecked merchant vessel from the Ryukyu Kingdom on the southwestern tip of Taiwan 12 men were rescued by the local Chinese-speaking community and were transferred to Miyako-jima in the Ryukyu Islands The Empire of Japan used this as an excuse to both assert sovereignty over the Ryukyu Kingdom which was a tributary state of both Japan and Qing China at the time and to attempt the same with Taiwan a Qing territory It marked the first overseas deployment of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. See also: Land reclamation in Singapore 6 Optics Royal Navy and RAF officers watch as Vice Admiral Kogure appends his signature to the document marking the formal takeover of Seletar airfield from the Japanese 8 September 1945. Currency trading and exchange first occurred in ancient times. Money-changers (people helping others to change money and also taking a commission or charging a fee) were living in the Holy Land in the times of the Talmudic writings (Biblical times) These people (sometimes called "kollybist?s") used city stalls and at feast times the Temple's Court of the Gentiles instead. Money-changers were also the silversmiths and/or goldsmiths of more recent ancient times. .