The Bus, MRT, LRT and taxi system make up the public transport system in Singapore.

The company ( organisation ) was formed as a separately listed subsidiary in November 1997 under the name of Singapore Bus Services Limited, although it can trace its history back to the formation of Singapore Bus Service in 1973 with the merger of three bus companies.

The parent company has Singapore Bus Service as its direct predecessor.

Singapore Bus Service ( SBS ) was initially formed in 1973 with the merger of three private bus companies.

With the shift towards the creation of multi-modal transport companies, Singapore Bus Service Ltd changed its name to DelGro Corporation Limited in November 1997.

Bus operations were hived-off to a fully owned subsidiary called Singapore Bus Services Limited, which was separately listed on the Singapore Exchange.

In November 2001, Singapore Bus Services Limited was renamed as SBS Transit Limited when the company formally became a multi-modal transport operator with the impending opening of the Sengkang LRT Line.

* Bus operations in Singapore, comprising a fleet of about 3, 000 buses, serving almost the entire island.

Trans-Island Bus Services ( TIBS ) was formerly a public transport operator in Singapore, incorporated on 31 May 1982 by a firm of Singapore Shuttle Bus as a second full-day run bus service, following public transportation market liberalisation reform approved by parliament, which thereafter proposed the formation of another public bus service provider to establish a duopoly, which will compete with Singapore Bus Services ( now SBS Transit ) in 1981.

* 1945 – Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service ( d. 2010 )

* 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.

The role of the president as the head of state has been, historically, largely ceremonial although the constitution was amended in 1991 to give the president some veto powers in a few key decisions such as the use of the national reserves and the appointment of key judiciary, Civil Service and Singapore Armed Forces posts.

** Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service ( d. 2010 )

Service was added to Belgrade, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Bucharest, Singapore, Riyadh, Kuala Lumpur – in cooperation with MAS, Sana ' a, Moscow, Montreal, Delhi, Calcutta and Ankara.

National Service ( NS ) in Singapore is compulsory for all able-bodied male citizens and second generation permanent residents who have reached the age of 18.

He raced through a series of dead end jobs, before his call up for National Service in 1956, serving with the Royal Air Force in Singapore in 1957.

Born in Bristol, England, he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and served his compulsory National Service as a clerk in Calcutta and later in the Combined Services Entertainments Unit in Singapore where he entertained the troops alongside John Schlesinger, Stanley Baxter, and Kenneth Williams, before going on to study acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

In 1994, he was knighted for his services to the pharmaceutical industry and in 1999 he was awarded the Singapore National Day Public Service Star Award for his services to the economy of Singapore.

Until the 1990s the Singapore Armed Forces and Singapore Police Force band formations were similar to the Royal Marines Band Service, and Malaysian military bands.

* National Service Full-time, a full-time conscript in Singapore

In 1971, he was awarded a President's Scholarship and Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship by the Public Service Commission to study mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

After joining the Malay Administrative Service in 1939, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Raffles College in Singapore in 1940.

* Singapore Prison Service

* Head of Singapore ’ s Civil Service, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance of Singapore, Permanent Secretary ( Special Duties ) in the Prime Minister ’ s Office and the Permanent Secretary for National Security and Intelligence Co-ordination: Peter Ong

Nathan began his career in the Singapore Civil Service as a medical social worker in 1955.

Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

In 1959, when former British crown colony Singapore gained self-government, it adopted the Malay style Yang di-Pertuan Negara ( literally means " head of state " in Malay ) for its governor ( the actual head of state remained the British monarch ).

* 1929 – Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney-General of Singapore ( d. 2012 )

* October 6 – Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore ( d. 2010 )

** Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney-General of Singapore ( d. 2012 )

** Walter Woon, law professor and former Nominated Member of Parliament and Attorney-General of Singapore

** K. S. Rajah, Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore ( d. 2010 )

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore

* Richard F. Kneip — former United States Ambassador to Singapore, former Governor of South Dakota

* Institute of Mental Health ( Singapore ), also known by its former name as Woodbridge Hospital.

The former flagship Borders Singapore store.

In cases where a group or religion is state-sanctioned, a key power, or in the majority ( Singapore ), a shunned former member may face severe social, political, and / or financial costs.

William Wilberforce ( MP, and abolitionist of the slave trade ) and Sir Stamford Raffles ( founder of colonial Singapore ) both briefly resided here, the former being the patron of Mill Hill ’ s first church, Saint Paul ’ s.

* Chin Liew Ten ( born in Malaysia ), Professor of Philosophy and former Head of the Philosophy Department, National University of Singapore ; noted scholar of John Stuart Mill

It can be defined succinctly as Europe, plus the richer countries of the former British Empire ( USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand ) and Japan.

* Israel Eliashiv, former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore

* Radio & Television of Singapore, a former name of MediaCorp Singapore

The emphasis on territory and sphere of influence is consistent with former EIC policies in India and elsewhere, but even as the four-years long negotiations went on, the existence of Singapore strongly started to favor the new independent merchants and their houses.

: These are fully tailored and usually lined shorts with full zip fly and belt loops, in former times of flannel, nowadays of a cotton / synthetic mixture, typically in grey, worn by male primary and secondary school students as part of a formal school uniform in Britain, Australia, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand, and also by Cub scouts.

Many ethnic Chinese emigrants to the region were Hoklo from southern Fujian, and brought the language to what is now Burma ( Myanmar ), Indonesia ( the former Dutch East Indies ) and present day Malaysia and Singapore ( formerly Malaya and the British Straits Settlements ).