It also has development centers at Singapore, Santa Ana, California, and Linz, Austria.

In October 2006, Bachelet promulgated a multilateral trade deal with New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei, the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership ( P4 ), also signed under Lagos ' presidency.

The members of the P4 ( Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, and Brunei ) also plan to conclude a chapter on finance and investment in 2008.

The P4 ( Chile, Singapore, New Zealand, and Brunei ) also plan to expand ties through adding a finance and investment chapter to the existing P4 agreement.

Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.

Singapore has also established a detailed National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

Hakka cuisine, or Kejia cuisine, is the cooking style of the Hakka people, who originated in the southeastern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but may also be found in other parts of China and in countries with significant overseas Chinese communities .< ref > Linda Lau Anusasananan, < i > The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World </ i > ( University of California Press, 2012 )</ ref > There are numerous restaurants in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore serving Hakka cuisine.

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There are also international ferry services between across the Straits of Malacca between Sumatra and Malaysia, and between Singapore and nearby Indonesian islands, such as Batam.

In addition to commercial properties, Hongkong Land also develops residential properties in key cities around the region including Hong Kong, mainland China, Macau and Singapore where its subsidiary MCL Land is a significant property developer.

The 5th generation of Keswicks are also active within the organisation, Ben Keswick, son of Simon, is group managing director of Jardine, Cycle & Carriage in Singapore and Adam Keswick, son of Sir Chips Keswick is in charge of Jardine Pacific and Jardine Motors Group in Hong Kong.

Regarding railway land in Singapore, see also Malaysia-Singapore Points of Agreement of 1990.

The written forms of Standard Chinese are also essentially equivalent, although simplified characters are used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore while people in Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong generally use traditional characters.

The World Bank's governance indicators have also rated Singapore highly on rule of law, control of corruption and government effectiveness.

As of 1998, there were almost 55 million phone lines in Singapore, close to 47 million of which also served other telecommunication devices like computers and facsimile machines.

Singapore also has many links to the rest of the world.

Singapore is ranked second globally in terms of containerised traffic, with 21. 3 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units ( TEUs ) handled in 2004, and is also the world's busiest hub for transshipment traffic.

The Port of Singapore is also ranked the Best Seaport in Asia.

Singapore is also a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) forum which has its Secretariat in Singapore.

The interest in the Great Powers in Singapore would also deter the interference of regional powers.

Tamil is also a national language of Sri Lanka and an official language of Singapore.

The government is also looking to establish trade agreements with Singapore and the United States.

In the third quarter of 2006, the Singapore store emerged as the best performing among the entire group's 559 outlets, with the highest revenue generated per square meter.

Borne out of the backdrop of Keynesian, advocating government intervention, and neoclassical economics, stressing reduced intervention, with rise of high-growth countries ( Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong ) and planned governments ( Argentina, Chile, Sudan, Uganda ), economic development, more generally development economics, emerged amidst these mid-20th century theoretical interpretations of how economies prosper.

A team of four bridge players from the Strategic Games Club emerged 2nd in both the CJC Inter-school Bridge Tournament in May 2007, and the National Inter-schools Bridge Competition organized by the Singapore Contract Bridge Association in June 2007.

Ho graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering ( Electrical, First Class Honours ) after completing her pre-university education at National Junior College where she emerged as a Student of the Year and was a President's Scholar.

Channel 8 was emerged on 1 February 1980 by the RTS became Singapore Broadcasting Corporation ( SBC ) ( Chinese: 新廣第八波道 ).

It was against this deterioration in public image and treatment that a Singapore gay movement emerged.

SBC emerged on 1 February 1980 from the former government owned Radio and Television of Singapore ( RTS ) on 15 February 1963.

No black market for chewing gum in Singapore ever emerged, though some Singaporeans occasionally still manage to smuggle some chewing gum from Johor Bahru for their own consumption.

ACS ( I ) emerged National Champions in 1998 and 2005 and 1st Runner-Up in both 2004 and 2006 in the Singapore Secondary Schools Debating Championships.

With the independence of Singapore in 1965, a new wave of Singapore writing emerged, led by Edwin Thumboo, Arthur Yap, Robert Yeo, Goh Poh Seng, Lee Tzu Pheng and Chandran Nair.

Singapore emerged from the war in physical ruins and with a large number of homeless residents.

After a few weeks, reports emerged that he wanted to return to playing football in Singapore.

When the A-4SU was retired from active combat service, however, 142 Squadron was disbanded, while the 145 Squadron was retained to operate the newly upgraded F-16Ds from the new air base, an unsurprising decision considering the fact that the 145 Squadron has emerged as the best fighter squadron for five consecutive years since the year 2000 in the annual Singapore Armed Forces Best Unit Competition.

Kelvin Tan and Kelly Poon emerged winners of their respective categories and competed in the grand final at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 1 September 2005.

Kelly Poon Kar Lai () ( born July 11, 1983 ) is a Singaporean singer who emerged from one of the Chinese singing competition held in Singapore, Project SuperStar.

Although many companies emerged, such as Nusantara Films, Tan & Wong Film Company, Rimau Productions and Cathay-Keris, many closed down due to escalating production costs and diminishing audiences, leaving only MFP and Cathay-Keris both operating in Singapore.

Indeed, many top political leaders in Singapore come from peasant backgrounds, while modern peasants boast about their great ancestry.

Singapore has consistently been rated as the least-corrupt country in Asia and amongst the top ten cleanest in the world by Transparency International.

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.

The top 3 countries among all these different indexes are Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore.

** Ho Yeow Sun 何耀珊 ( born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Ho Rheu San ), Singer ; First and only Asian singer to top the US Billboard Dance Chart and the UK MusicWeek Chart ; Performed the Olympic Hymn, which was sung in Mandarin for the first time, accompanied by a choir of Overseas Chinese from 16 different nationalities for 2008 Beijing Olympics

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.

Nine UWC colleges teach the International Baccalaureate, with three schools in Singapore, the Netherlands and Swaziland which, on top of the IB, also teach a pre-16 syllabus to younger students.

Powered by the cluster, Singapore is currently one of the world's top three oil refining centres despite not having a single drop of crude deposits.

His techniques led to Singapore being one of the world's top centres of commercial orchid growing.

In response, media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders wrote an open letter to urge Lee and other top officials of the Singapore government to stop taking ‘ libel actions ’ against journalists.

The top 10 countries accessing Friendster, according to Alexa, as of May 7, 2009 are the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, South Korea, Bangladesh and India.

In March, 1943, Joe is sent to Singapore to infiltrate a top secret Axis meeting led by Japanese Commander Shima.

It is also similar to the flags of Singapore ( which has a crescent and five stars in the top left ), Poland and the German state of Thuringia ( the order of the colours is reversed on the latter two ).

Soon afterward, A-mei began her 1998 Asia concert tour, performing in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, on top of the highly acclaimed initial show in Taipei.

Since his ascension to the throne, Sultan Iskandar fostered particularly close neighbourly ties with Singapore, by developing a personal rapport with top Singaporean leaders.

He never again won a ranking event, although he won several major invitational events ; the 1984 Malaysian Masters, where he topped a round robin group ( Tony Meo was the runner up ), the 1984 Singapore Masters, where also topped a round robin group ( Davis was runner up ), the 1985 Hong Kong Masters, where he beat Davis 4 – 2 ; the 1986 Belgian Classic, where he beat Kirk Stevens 9 – 7 in the final, in an event featuring 8 of the top 9 in the year's rankings.

Academic staff includes PhD holders from some of the top tier universities such as Stanford, Rice University, MIT, University of California, Berkeley, University of Manchester, McGill University, McMaster University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, University of Texas at Austin, University College London, Imperial College London, National University of Singapore, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Yale University, and Harvard University.

As of April 2010, the 20 books in the True Singapore Ghost Stories series have sold over one million copies worldwide, making Lee Asia's top writer of ghost stories.

It has the unique distinction of having the Independent School status in 1988, a scheme that the ministry perceived had proven successful and was extended to other top schools in Singapore.

The Chinese High School was one of the top high schools in Singapore, having been consistently ranked among the top four schools according to the Ministry of Education's annual official rankings.

In 2004 he and partner Luluk Hadiyanto won four top tier tournaments on the international circuit, the Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand Opens.

In 2007 he teamed with Vita Marissa to win a number of top tier events including the Singapore, French, and Chinese Taipei Opens, as well as the Southeast Asian Games title.

Since moving back to its Bukit Timah Road campus, Hwa Chong Junior College was ranked again as one of the top junior colleges in Singapore based on the official college rankings by the Ministry of Education, that were introduced in the early 1990s.