Political leaders in Singapore argued instead for the equality of all citizens, with places in universities, government contracts, political appointments, etc., going to the most deserving candidates, rather than to those chosen on the basis of connections or ethnic background ( It is worth noting that Lee Kuan Yew was originally a Fabian Socialist and opposed racism ).

While the Singapore Department of Statistics reports overall population figures for Singapore ( 4. 48 million in 2006 ), as a matter of policy, it only provides more detailed demographic breakdown analysis for the approximately 80 % of the population who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents ( collectively termed ' residents ').

Category: Naturalised citizens of Singapore

However, in 2000 the Japanese group of 85 members expanded itself, becoming the Pacific Asia group, composed of 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, 7 Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations ( Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand ).

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.

It was automatically granted to people who were born in any state in British Malaya or Singapore and were living there before 15 February 1942, born outside British Malaya or the Straits Settlements only if their fathers were citizens of the Malayan Union and those who reached 18 years old and who had lived in British Malaya or Singapore " 10 out of 15 years before 15 February 1942 ".

* Citizens of member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations do not require tourist visas to visit another member state, excluding Burma, where its citizens are required to have a visa to enter seven of the ten ASEAN member states: the exceptions to this are Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

By virtue of transitional provisions in the Constitution of Singapore, although Ong's predecessor Wee Kim Wee was not elected as President, because he held the office of President immediately prior to 30 November 1991 he exercised, performed and discharged all the functions, powers and duties of an elected president as if he had been elected to the office of President by the citizens of Singapore until Ong Teng Cheong took office as President.

UMNO politicians actively campaigned in Singapore for the Singapore Alliance, contending that the Singapore Malays were being treated as second-class citizens under the Chinese-dominated PAP government.

The Speakers ' Corner in Singapore was opened on 1 September 2000, to allow Singapore citizens to speak freely.

From 1 September 2008, Singapore citizens can also organise or participate in demonstrations at Speakers ' Corner without having to obtain a police permit.

In Singapore, the government's housing policies attempt to promote a mix of all races within each subsidized housing district in order to foster social cohesion and national loyalty while providing the citizens with affordable housing.

Singapore government policy prevents most citizens from attending international schools within the country, and therefore UWCSEA has the smallest percentage of local students of any UWC.

Singapore uses a universal insurance fund that all citizens are required to participate in as a baseline.

In 1972 the Singapore government de-registered and banned the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Singapore on the grounds that its members refuse to perform military service ( which is obligatory for all male citizens ), salute the flag, or swear oaths of allegiance to the state.

The card also serves as a supplementary identification and concession card for students in nationally recognised educational institutes, full-time national service personnel serving in the Singapore Armed Forces, Singapore Civil Defence Force and Singapore Police Force or senior citizens who are over sixty years old.

The Singapore Red Cross precludes potential donors who have spent a cumulative time of three months or more in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996.

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

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.

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.

Some believe this may be due to deliberate price fixing by those who bought the stockpile echoing the warnings from the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society on price-fixing after sales to Japan in 1997, and monopoly given to traders who bought stockpiles from Burundi and Singapore in the 1980s.

British Governor Raffles, who the later founded the city of Singapore, ruled the colony the following 10 years of the British interregnum ( 1806 – 1816 ).

In Singapore, for example, a person who attempts to cause or commits an act of vandalism may be liable to imprisonment for up to 3 years and may also be punished with caning.

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.

Organ trading is banned in Singapore and in many other countries to prevent the exploitation of " poor and socially disadvantaged donors who are unable to make informed choices and suffer potential medical risks.

The Buginese sailors of South Sulawesi were infamous as pirates who used to range as far west as Singapore and as far north as the Philippines in search of targets for piracy.

In the road transportation arena these theories were extended by Maurice Allais, a fellow Nobel prize winner " for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources ", Gabriel Roth who was instrumental in the first designs and upon whose World Bank recommendation the first system was put in place in Singapore.

Two schoolfriends, who had also been evacuated from Singapore to Batavia, heard that Gorton was in hospital, arranged for them to be put on a ship for Fremantle, which left on 23 February and treated Gorton's wounds.

Other contributors to Whole Earth appeared in Wired, including William Gibson, who was featured on Wireds cover in its first year and whose article " Disneyland with the Death Penalty " in issue 1. 4 resulted in the publication being banned in Singapore.

The forces were led by Australia, which provided the largest contingent and the out of theatre base for operations, supported by New Zealand, who sent the second largest contingent, and took responsibility for the more volatile southern half of the main border, France, whose special forces joined the ANZACs on the first day, as well as contingents from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Fiji, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Julf was also contacted by the government of Singapore as part of an effort to discover who was posting messages critical of the nation's government in the newsgroup soc. culture. singapore, but as Finnish law did not recognise any crime being committed, Julf was not required to reveal the user's identity.

In 2003 two women from Iran, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head but had separate brains ( craniopagus ) were surgically separated in Singapore, despite surgeons ' warnings that the operation could be fatal to one or both.

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.

Initial reactions to the proposed purchase in Indonesia were cautious with most commentators saying that the deal was expected to be approved but that government regulators would doubtless wish to look at some of the details, including reciprocity from Singapore policy makers, quite closely before making a final decision.

The pre-university centres of Singapore are designed for upper-stream students ( roughly about 20 %- 25 % of the cohort ) who wish to pursue a university degree after two to three years of pre-university education, rather than stopping after polytechnic post-secondary education.

TKGS is one of the few schools in Singapore that offer the Music Elective Programme ( MEP ) to students who wish to pursue Music as a subject in the Cambridge ' O ' Level examinations.

It has developed increasingly close ties with other ASEAN members — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam — whose foreign and economic ministers hold annual meetings.

It has developed increasingly close ties with other ASEAN members — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam — whose foreign and economic ministers hold annual meetings.

Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a sovereign wealth fund owned by Abu Dhabi, and the Government of Singapore also hold significant shareholdings as on June 30, 2012.

It used to be the director's house and was named in honour of the only father and son pair to hold the post of Director of Singapore Botanic Gardens, Isaac and Humphrey Burkill.

About half of its managed assets are external to Singapore and Temasek-linked companies ( TLCs ) also hold an extensive global portfolio, such as SingTel's ownership of Australian telco Optus, and Singapore Airlines ' 49 % stake in Virgin Atlantic.

He went on to hold various command and staff appointments in the Republic of Singapore Navy ( RSN ) and the Joint Staff.

This is attributed to the fact that the island is close to Malaysia and Singapore in particular and Indonesians flock to the place to get a foot hold to go to Singapore.

Thus, on 22 May 1828 the Governor Robert Fullerton, together with the Resident Councillor Kenneth Murchison, were obliged to hold the first assizes in Singapore by themselves.

In contrast, the United Kingdom managed to hold on to their colonies in South East Asia until 1957 ( Malaya ) and 1963 ( Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore ) and were able to maintain the Commonwealth with the British sovereign as the titular head of this organisation.

" In April 1993, Koo and Wang met in Singapore to hold the first formal discussions between Taipei and Beijing since 1949.

In April 1993, Koo and Wang met in Singapore to hold the Wang-Koo summit.

Other achievements in Monteiro's career include being designated a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences ( organiser of the Grammy Awards ) in 1991 and remains the only Southeast Asian to hold a vote in the Grammies, performing with the Asian All-Stars jazz band to 14, 000 people at the Shanghai Convention Centre in 1996, and being appointed artistic director of the Singapore International Jazz Festival in 2001, featuring 52 bands and more than 150 musicians from Singapore and overseas.

While Micropolis was able to hold on longer than many of the others, it ultimately sold its hard drive business to Singapore Technologies ( now Temasek Holdings ), who has ceased to market the brand.

Most of the iconic building that represents Singapore CBD skyline also stand on free hold land, which are extremely uncommon in Singapore today.

Apart from these qualifications stated in the Constitution, there was an indication in the Parliamentary debates leading to the PCMR's introduction that permanent members of the PCMR are very likely to be drawn from " men of distinction " who hold or have held high public appointments, such as former prime ministers, the Chief Justice, former chief justices, judges, the Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore, the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, the Attorney-General and former permanent secretaries.

Malaysians, who are permitted to hold restricted passports ( only valid for entering Singapore ) until December 31, 2005, were only required to show the passport to the customs officer at the counter.

This requires Malaysians travelling to Singapore to hold an international passport, a rule that was once optional.