According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as " freedom fighters " by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally " fundamentalist ".”"

According to latest 2010 statistics, Singapore ’ s resident total fertility rate ( TFR ) reached a level of 1. 1 in 2010.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

According to the Ease of Doing Business ranking 2012, Thailand ranks 17th in the world and 2nd in Southeast Asia-after Singapore.

According to the Constitution of Singapore, a referendum can be held in a few circumstances, including situations when a constitutional amendment passed by the Parliament is rejected by the President, or when the nation's sovereignty needs to be decided ( i. e. merger or incorporation into other countries ).

According to the plan established by ASEAN, this stretch is scheduled for completion by 2020 ; it will form part of the Singapore – Kunming Rail Link project, overseen by the ASEAN – Mekong Basin Development Cooperation ( AMBDC ).

According to the Nagarakretagama ( Desawarñana ) written in 1365, Majapahit was an empire of 98 tributaries, stretching from Sumatra to New Guinea ; consisting of present day Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, southern Thailand, the Philippines, and East Timor, although the true nature of Majapahit sphere of influence is still the subject of studies among historians.

According to George Yeo, the Foreign Minister of Singapore, in those days the Blue Sky with a White Sun flag was sewn in the Sun Yat Sen Villa or Wan Qing Yuan in Singapore by Teo Eng Hock and his wife.

According to Vatthana Pholsena, assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and author of the book " Post-war Laos ", Kaysone Phomvihane was the top policy maker in LPDR, and a strongman.

According to Lee Kuan Yew's biography, the younger Lee had learnt the Jawi script from the age of five, and has always been interested in the affairs of Singapore, often following his father to the rally grounds since 1963.

According to various accounts, the loot was initially concentrated in Singapore, and later transported to the Philippines.

According to the local government, mastery of Standard English is imperative to raise living standards in Singapore, and Singlish causes problems when Singaporeans need to communicate in English, the " global language of commerce, business and technology ".

According to Hirofumi Hayashi ( see next section ), the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs " accepted that the Japanese military had carried out mass killings in Singapore ... During negotiations with Singapore, the Japanese government rejected demands for reparations but agreed to make a “ gesture of atonement ” by providing funds in other ways.

According to Onishi Satoru, the Kempeitai officer in charge of the Jalan Besar screening centre, Kempeitai commander Oishi Masayuki was instructed by the chief of staff, Suzuki Sosaku, at Keluang, Johor, to prepare for a purge following the capture of Singapore.

According to the A Country Study: Singapore published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress:

According to the diary of the Singapore garrison commander, Major General Kawamura Saburo, the total number reported to him as killed by the various Kempeitai section commanders on 23 February was five thousand.

According to military and strategic analysts, such as Tim Huxley in Defending the Lion City, Singapore is known to be using a forward-defence military doctrine.

According to a company press release dated June 29, 2007, Popeyes is the second-largest " quick-service chicken restaurant group, measured by number of units ", with more than 1, 800 restaurants in more than 40 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and over 21 countries worldwide including Turkey, Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname, Mexico, Trinidad, Honduras, Vietnam, Panama, Peru, and Costa Rica.

According to the then-CEO Chew Choon Seng of Singapore Airlines, “ We are not convinced about the additional expenditure that would be needed to renew the freighter fleet with 747-8 freighters, when the tradeoffs in terms of operating efficiency is rather marginal, in our view.

According to the Ministry of Manpower, which issues a yearly list of the dates on which public holidays fall, the holidays were " chosen and agreed upon after close consultation with different community and religious leaders in Singapore ".

According to the Singapore government:

According to historical records, Sri Tri Bhuvana occupied Singapore and then declared himself as the King of Singapore.

According to the latest projections of the Bureau of the Census, the annual rate of household formations will increase for the next 20 years.

According to the Russian Empire Census of 1897, 1446 persons in the Russian Empire reported Ainu language as their mother tongue, 1434 of them in Sakhalin Island.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 0. 89 %) is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, all of it land.

According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and ( 40. 83 %) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.

According to the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 105, 162.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Cambridge has a total area of, of which of it is land and of it ( 9. 82 %) is water.

According to the Census of Canada, the population of Cape Breton Island in 2011 was 135, 974, a 4. 4 % decline from 142, 298 in 2006, and a 14. 1 % decline from 158, 260 in 1996.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which is land and ( 20. 70 %) is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 6. 37 %) is water.

According to the 2010 U. S. Census, Delaware had a population of 897, 934.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 1. 79 %) is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which, of it is land and is water.

According to the 2010 IBGE Census, there were 2, 315, 116 people residing in the city of Fortaleza.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which is land and, or 1. 27 %, is water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 2. 52 % of the town.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 36. 53 %) is water.

According to U. S. Census figures from 2000, 41, 000, 000 Americans claim to be wholly or partly of Irish ancestry, a group that represents more than one in five white Americans.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, all of it land.

According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, the commune of Juan Fernández had 633 inhabitants ; of these, 598 ( 94. 5 %) lived in urban areas and 35 ( 5. 5 %) in rural areas.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of.

According to the provisional results of the Population and Housing Census 2011, the total population of Latvia on March 1, 2011 was 2, 067, 887.

According to rankings provided by the United States Census Bureau-International Data Base ( IDB )-Country Rankings, Latvia is estimated to have a population of 1, 544, 000 in the year 2050.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 0. 43 % of the town.