The original Singapore campus, where Parkinson taught, later became the University of Singapore.

* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

Mountbatten making an address in Singapore, 1945. As a result of the Dieppe raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career ; his relations with Canadian veterans " remained frosty ".

After expulsion from Malaysia on 9 August 1965, Singapore became a sovereign Commonwealth republic and installed Yusof bin Ishak as its first President.

After the Fall of Singapore to Japan, he became a prisoner of war at Changi Prison from February 1942 to September 1945.

This dispute between State and Federal governments proved irreconcilable ; Singapore therefore became an independent city-state separate from Malaysia.

Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).

It has been a source of debate whether the states of Sabah and Sarawak joined the Federation of Malaysia as equal partners with Malaya and Singapore or whether they became merely equal partners of the states of Malaya ( Peninsular Malaysia ).

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.

Hence, Singapore became the only country to become independent against its own will.

Several regions in the then British Malaya such as Penang, Malacca and Singapore became Chinese dominated.

Saigon became a principal port in Southeast Asia and rivaled the British port of Singapore as the region's busiest commercial center.

In Southeast Asia, Malaya and the then-crown colonies of Sabah ( British North Borneo ), Sarawak and Singapore became independent as Malaysia in 1963.

After taking control of much of India, the British expanded further into Singapore, Burma and Malaya ( modern day Malaysia ) and these became further sources of trade and raw materials for British goods.

Brooke became the centre of controversy in 1851 when accusations against him of excessive use of force against natives, under the guise of anti-piracy operations, ultimately led to the appointment of a royal commission in Singapore in 1854: its investigation did not confirm the charges, but the accusations continued to haunt him.

The line that separated the spheres of influence between the British and the Dutch ultimately became the border between Indonesia and Malaysia ( with a small segment becoming the border between Indonesia and Singapore ).

The Singapore Society of Accountants became an associate member in 1975.

More product lines became available with the Quicklon ( sometimes called Cosmolon ) fasteners in December 1981. International and product expansion continued durig the 1980s, with a real estate business in Singapore in December 1984, an agricultural business in Brazil in January 1985, and a plant in Indonesia in September 1986 producing zippers and aluminium parts for buildings.

In January 1971, Obote was overthrown by the army while on a visit to Singapore, and Amin became President.

After the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the return of Singapore to British rule, the island became the base of the locally enlisted First Singapore Regiment of the Royal Artillery ( 1st SRRA ) in 1947.

In 1967, Pulau Blakang Mati became the base for the Singapore Naval Volunteer Force, which relocated there from its old base at Telok Ayer Basin.

Singapore exemplifies a case of a numerically weak opposition ; South Africa under the apartheid regime maintained a long-term imbalance in the parliament.

The print media is dominated by Singapore Press Holdings and MediaCorp.

The economy of Singapore is dominated by government-linked corporations that produce as much as 60 % of the country's GDP.

The global semiconductor industry is dominated by USA, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and European Union.

Iranian weightlifters dominated in all events and claimed 10 medals in total including all the golds, Singapore won two silvers, while both India and Philippines won one silver and one bronze.

The Commando Formation dominated the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association's annual sports championships, having won five out of six times from 1988 to 1993.

The implicit assumption underlying the usage of the term is that the 21st century will be dominated, especially economically, by the states in the Asia-Pacific region, in particular China, Japan, India, South Korea, Taiwan, the ASEAN members ( particularly Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore ), Australia, Russia, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

Chinese migration to Britain continued to be dominated by these groups until the 1980s, when rising living standards and urbanization in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia gradually reduced the volume of migration from the New Territories.

From the 1920s Australia's defence thinking was dominated by the so-called ' Singapore strategy '.

Singapore Broadcasting Corporation ( Abbreviation: SBC ; Singapore Mandarin: 新加坡廣播局 ( Abbreviation: 新廣 ); Malaysian: Perbadanan Penyiaran Singapura ; ) was a partially privatised mass market media conglomeration, which dominated the television and radio broadcasting industry in Singapore during its existence.

At that time, the Singapore legislative was dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) and without members of the opposition parties during the period from 1968 to 1981.

File: Singapore Skyline at Night with Blue Sky. JPG | The southern part of the Downtown Core, dominated by commercial buildings in Raffles Place and Shenton Way.

* 1967 – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

Cultures and countries strongly influenced by Confucianism include mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, as well as various territories settled predominantly by Chinese people, such as Singapore.

In 2006, the State of Qatar awarded Keppel Seghers Singapore, a subsidiary of Keppel Corporation to begin construction on a 275, 000 tonne / year Anaerobic Digestion and Composting Plant licensed by Kompogas Switzerland.

Vegetarian cuisine is known as zhāicài ("( Buddhist ) vegetarian food ") in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan ; đồ chay in Vietnam ; in Japan ; sachal eumsik (" temple food ") in Korea and by other names in many countries.

* Campus SuperStar, a popular Singapore school-based singing competition, organised by Mediacorp

* Singapore Deed Poll by Loh Eben Ong & Partners, Singapore Lawyers

It is the official system of romanization used by the governments of the People's Republic of China, Singapore and Taiwan.

The first one was published by Chuang Yi in Singapore.

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.

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.

* 1995 – The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, loses $ 1. 4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

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

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 ".”"

Alan Marshall, in the Department of Social Sciences at Mahidol University, for example, reflects upon the way Gaia philosophy has been used and advocated by environmentalists, spiritualists, managers, economists, and scientists and engineers ( see The Unity of Nature, 2002, Imperial College Press: London and Singapore ).

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.

The port of Malacca on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula was founded in 1402 by Parameswara, a Srivijaya prince fleeing Temasek ( now Singapore ), Malaysia formally came into being on 16 September 1963, consisting of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore.

This balance was altered by the inclusion of the majority Chinese Singapore, upsetting many Malays.

Chinese families therefore sent their children to universities in Singapore, Australia, Britain or the United States – by 2000, for example, 60, 000 Malaysians held degrees from Australian universities.

Others have achieved fame by association with dishes or cocktails created on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the crêpe Suzette was invented or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where the Singapore Sling cocktail was devised.