This agreement will help the Singapore government achieve a standard desktop, network and messaging / collaboration environment across its public sector by the end of fiscal year 2010.

Singapore describes meritocracy as one of its official guiding principles for domestic public policy formulation, placing emphasis on academic credentials as objective measures of merit.

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

About 52. 4 % of Singaporean residents ( excluding foreigners ) go to work using public transport according to the Singapore Census of Population 2000, with 41. 6 % using private transport and the remaining 6. 1 % not requiring any form of transport.

The policies of the Land Transport Authority are meant to encourage the use of public transport in Singapore.

Launched in December 2007 by Land Transport Authority, Singapore Tourism Board and EZ-Link, the Singapore Tourist Pass offers unlimited travel for tourists to Singapore on Singapore's public transport system.

Safdie has designed six of Canada's principal public institutions as well as many other notable projects around the world, including the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, the Khalsa Heritage Centre in India, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore, the United States Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, DC, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

The Attorney-General of Singapore is the legal adviser to the government of the Republic of Singapore and its public prosecutor.

In many countries with a strong Christian tradition such as Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, the countries of the Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, the day is observed as a public or federal holiday.

Fujitsu offers a public cloud service delivered from data centers in Japan, Australia, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany based on its Global Cloud Platform strategy announced in 2010.

Very similar to Hong Kong's Octopus card, Singapore has an electronic money program for its public transportation system ( commuter trains, bus, etc.

Nanyang Technological University ( Abbreviation: NTU or Nanyang Tech ) is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore with the biggest campus in Singapore and the world's largest engineering college.

In Singapore, Members of Parliament refers to elected members of the Parliament of Singapore, the appointed Non-Constituency Members of Parliament from the opposition, as well as the Nominated Members of Parliament, who may be appointed from members of the public who have no connection to any political party in Singapore.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen ( 2012 ) celebrated the work of innovative architecture firms such as WOHA ( based in Singapore ), Mass Studies ( based in Seoul ), Amateur Architecture Studio ( based in Hangzhou ), and the New York City-based Steven Holl in the transformation of residential towers into " vertical communities " or " vertical cities in the sky " providing aesthetic, unusually-designed silhouettes on the skyline, comfortable private spaces and attractive public spaces.

While there are town councils and mayors in Singapore, these are essentially property managers in charge of the maintenance of public housing within their constituency boundaries.

The new town planning concept was introduced into Singapore with the building of the first New Town, Queenstown, from July 1952 to 1973 by the country's public housing authority, the Housing and Development Board.

In the early days of settlement, Singapore was the recipient of Indian convicts, who were tasked with clearing the jungles for settlement and early public works.

In Singapore, travelers are prohibited from bringing pepper spray into the country, and it is illegal for the public to possess.

She attended the Royal Navy School in Singapore, and a convent school in Bath.

* Hwa Chong Institution, a school located in Singapore

* First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore

* Singapore American School, an international school in Singapore

* SAF Warrant Officer School, a Singapore Armed Forces training school within the Pasir Laba Camp complex for Master Sergeants

Countries with mandatory school uniforms include Japan, South Korea, Thailand, India, Australia, U. A. E, Singapore, some schools in China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, among as many other places.

Over one thousand students in uniform during an assembly at a secondary school in Singapore.

* Direct School Admission, a program in Singapore for students to be guaranteed a place in a school

To support her surviving daughter Avis and son Louis, Leonowens again took up teaching, and opened a school for the children of British officers in Singapore.

In 2013, NTU will accept its first batch of medical undergraduates at its new joint medical school with Imperial College London, the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, which received philanthropic support of S $ 400 million within months of its establishment in Singapore.

* Temasek Secondary School, a secondary school in Bedok, Singapore

Over one thousand pupils in uniform during an assembly at a secondary school in Singapore

A raised zebra-crossing-speed-bump at a school zone in Marine Parade, Singapore

In British English the term " short trousers " is used, but only for shorts that are a short version of real trousers, e. g. tailored shorts, often lined, as typically worn as part of school uniform for boys up to their early-to-middle teens from roughly 1920 to 1980 ( and still in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and South Africa ), and by servicemen and policemen posted overseas to tropical climates.

: 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.

A somewhat thinner rattan cane was the standard implement for school corporal punishment in England and Wales, and is still used for this purpose in schools in Singapore, Malaysia and several African countries.

On April 5, the Singapore government announced that school closure will be extended.

In Singapore, pupils from primary school through junior colleges are required to have 2 hours of PE every week, except during examination seasons.

The equivalent graduation certificate in Austria, Poland and other countries of continental Europe is the Matura ; while in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the West Indies, it is A-levels ; in Scotland it is Higher Grade ; in Greece and Cyprus it is the " apolytirion " ( a kind of high school diploma ); in Malta it is the Matriculation Certificate ( MATSEC ).

The UWC international organisation is a British based foundation and has twelve schools and colleges in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina and, as of September 2009, a newly opened school in Maastricht, the Netherlands ; national committees in more than 130 countries ; a portfolio of short programmes running in numerous countries ; a network of more than 40, 000 alumni from more than 181 countries, and an International Office in London.

After the war, he graduated from secondary school with high marks and enrolled to study medicine at the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore ( now part of National University of Singapore ).

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.

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.