Further, a brief portion later in the film is set in Singapore ( one of Wong's initial inspirations on the story of the film had been a short story set in Singapore, Intersection, by the Hong Kong writer Liu Yichang ).

Other characters in the film comment on this relationship — for instance, in one scene, Mr. Liu states that " it is difficult to catch fish in Singapore, because fish in Singapore are like Singaporeans ; they'll never open their mouths ", poking fun at the Singaporean trait of obedience and respect for authority.

* Gretchen Liu ( 1996 ), In Granite and Chunam-The National Monuments of Singapore, Landmark Books, ISBN 981-3065-03-6

The Manhunt Contest started in 1987, when Alex Liu, pageant director of Metromedia Singapore, decided to stage the first male model contest in Singapore, as there were numerous pageants for women and none for men.

Liu consequently planned and engineered the first Manhunt contest in Singapore.

Among them are: the notable frequent full-frontal nudity of Hong Kong Chinese females and the brief but particularly notable full-frontal adult male nudity of a Hong Kong Chinese male actor, Chung Lin, who plays the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto, in the 1991 science fiction / comedy film Robotrix ( perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's genitals have been fully revealed on camera in a film on general release ), the full-frontal appearance of Hong Kong Chinese actor Michael Lam, who was the lead in Bugis Street ( 1995 ), as his clothes and underwear are torn off by his lover, fully exposing his genitals ; a variety of East Asian actors in The Pillow Book ( 1996 ); of Hong Kong Chinese lead actor Sunny Chan in a bathroom scene as he enters a shower, fully revealing his genitals for a few moments, in Hold You Tight ( 1997 ); of mainland China lead actor Liu Ye in Lan Yu ( 2001 ), whose genitals are shown as he lies naked on a bed ; a variety of East Asian actors in Under One Roof ( 2002 ); of French Vietnamese actor Steve Tran whose genitals are shown as he walks naked in a high school locker room in Cold Showers ( 2005 ); of Singapore Chinese actor / director Zihan Loo, who removes all his clothes, uncovering his genitals, and while waiting to meet a prostitute, masturbates on camera, eventually revealing his fully erect penis, in Pleasure Factory ( 2007 ); a variety of Taiwanese Chinese actors who dare each other to skinnydip in Winds of September ( 2008 ), and of lead actor Ron Heung and the Hong Kong National Baseball Team, who are shown naked in City Without Baseball ( 2008 ), with their genitals fully revealed on camera.

Chan Tze Law is Associate Director of Singapore's Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Music Director of the Singapore Festival Orchestra and Founding Chief Conductor of the Australian International Summer Orchestral Institute.

By 1990, he had, along with other ex-school mates, Jonathan Kuan Wei Han, Tong Jo Tze, Alvin Pang and Jeffrey Lim, interested a Singapore publisher, VJ Times, in the publication of an anthology of poems contributed by the five writers.

Called FEN ( Far East Network ), the quartet comprises Ōtomo, Yuen Chee Wai ( Singapore ), Ryu Hankil ( South Korea ) and Yan Jun ( China ).

The Lantern Festival in Taiwan ( also known as the Yuanxiao Festival or Shangyuan Festival in China ; Chap Goh Meh Festival in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore ; Yuen Siu Festival in Hong Kong, and " Tết Thượng Nguyên " or " Tết Nguyên Tiêu " in Vietnam ; corresponding Japanese event Koshōgatsu ); is a festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the lunar calendar, the last day of the lunisolar lunar New Year celebration.

1 Mbit / s was only recently introduced in 2006 and priced at BND $ 128 per month ( Equivalent to Singapore currency ).

In South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, BCG was given at birth and again at age 12.

But in Malaysia and Singapore, from 2001, this policy was changed to once only at birth, and it was discontinued in South Korea.

In 1950, he was appointed Raffles Professor of History at the newly-established University of Malaya in Singapore.

In Singapore, Chung Cheng High School was named after him.

The first one was published by Chuang Yi in Singapore.

In Singapore, a public school that was established in 1953, was named after Admiral Beatty.

His ship was a new destroyer which he was to sail to Singapore and exchange for an older ship, HMS Wishart.

A personal high point was the reception of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.

Under Mountbatten's presidency and personal involvement, the United World College of South East Asia was established in Singapore in 1971, followed by the United World College of the Pacific ( now known as the Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific ) in Victoria, Canada, in 1974.

The event was created by the Singapore Floorball Association together with the cooperation of the Asia Oceania Floorball Confederation ( AOFC ).

Eleanor Jacques was now married and had gone to Singapore and Brenda Salkield had left for Ireland, so Blair was relatively isolated in Southwold — working on the allotments, walking alone and spending time with his father.

Gibraltar was a landing point of the long-range submarine cable that from Porthcurno, in the United Kingdom ran to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, over land to the east coast of India, then on to Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia ( current Jakarta ), to finally reach Darwin, Australia.

Gardner was unhappy with the working conditions and the racist attitudes of his colleagues, and when he developed malaria he felt that this was the last straw ; he left Borneo and moved to Singapore in what was then known as Malaya.

Arriving in Singapore, he initially planned to return to Ceylon, but was offered a job working as an assistant on a rubber plantation in Perak, northern Malaya, and decided to take it, working for the Borneo Company.

Although between 1914 and 1918 World War I was raging in Europe, its effects were little felt in Malaya, apart from the 1915 Singapore Mutiny.

He was encouraged in this by the director of the Raffles Museum ( now the National Museum of Singapore ) and by his election to Fellowship of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1936.

An outstation in the Far East, the Far East Combined Bureau was set up in Hong Kong in 1935, and moved to Singapore in 1939.

However, it was the British, who after initially establishing bases at Jesselton, Kuching, Penang and Singapore, ultimately secured their hegemony across the territory that is now Malaysia.

The national flag behind him is Defacement ( flag ) | defaced with the Symbol of Singapore | Lion Symbol numerous times.

The reasoning behind this was that this would allow the central government to control and combat communist activities, especially in Singapore.

Held on the first Sunday of each month, the ceremony begins just behind The Heeren, a shopping mall at Orchard Road, where military policemen from the Silent Precision Drill Squad of the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command ( SAFMPC ) leads the contingent of new guards ( also from the SAFMPC ) in a march down the road towards the Istana, with the Singapore Armed Forces Bands providing music and beats.

Even with none of the cats the Meadows brought in we still have a legitimate cat from Singapore behind our Singapuras.

" Two months later, on 19 October 1980, the party unveiled its emblem: a circle ( which symbolises unity amongst Singapore's ethnic groups ), behind an arrow ( representing political progress in Singapore ) in the colour red ( signifying courage and determination ).

Britain pulled its military out of Singapore in October 1971, leaving behind only a small British, Australian and New Zealand force as a token military presence.

Thus, the massive and ambitious economic development plan envisaging " 10 golf courses, 20 hotels, 10 condominiums, three village clusters, a township, several marine and eco-tourism attractions " launched in 1995 with a gestation period of 20 years, was according to the leisure industry analyst of Singapore: " Bintan has better prospects because of the people behind its development.

* A passenger express from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore derails at high speed near Johor Bahru, Malaysia, after bolts holding the underframe-mounted air conditioning generator come off causing it to fall off and catapult the particular coach and the ones behind it off the rails.

In July 2009, the university was ranked 175th in the world, 18th in Asia and 2nd in the South-East Asia behind the National University of Singapore.

He had two failed ventures behind him – one in import-export business and the other in coffee plantations-when he left his job as a mercantile assistant in Singapore.

The reasoning behind this was that it would allow the federal government to control and combat communist activities, especially in Singapore.

According to him, the main motivation behind having NMPs as a permanent part of the system of government in Singapore was the fact that the scheme had been a great success and had improved the quality of debate in the House: " The scheme has worked well.

It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world ( behind the ports of Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen ) and easily the busiest in the Western Hemisphere.

After which, the Singapore SPCA was tasked to round up the few cats that were left behind after his departure.

It is also near the National University of Singapore Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre.

Guard of Honour contingents from the Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) and the Singapore Police Force ; behind them were the SAF Colours and escorts ( NDP 2003 ).

Tan Wah Piow, a former University of Singapore Students ' Union president residing in England was named the mastermind behind the plot.