2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

Brunei has a number of diplomatic missions abroad and has close relations with Singapore, sharing an interchangeable currency regime as well as close military relations with the latter island-state.

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

Over the last several years, Chile has signed FTAs with the European Union, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, China, and Japan.

To that end, it has signed trade agreements in recent years with New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, India, China, and most recently Japan.

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 ).

Standard Chinese has official status as the standard spoken form of the Chinese language in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the Republic of China ( ROC ) and the Republic of Singapore.

Singapore has passed numerous laws that prohibit speech that causes disharmony among various religious groups.

It has regional centres in Asia-Pacific ( Singapore ), Latin America ( São Paulo, Brazil ) and North America ( Boston, United States ).

This form of training has now spread to a number of other countries ( Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore, Scotland, England, Wales, United States ).

Jordan has FTA's with the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, the European Union, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Algeria, Turkey and Syria.

It has a significant presence in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, and a growing presence in mainland China, India and Vietnam.

Latvia has a Consulate General in Russia ; Consulates in Belarus and Russia ; Honorary Consulates General in Australia, Cyprus, India, Israel, and Norway ; and Honorary Consulates in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela.

The Dutch contingent has been replaced by soldiers from the U. S., Australia, Slovakia, and Singapore.

The international corporate banking division has branches in Germany ( Frankfurt ), United Kingdom ( London ), Singapore, China ( Shanghai ) and in the United States ( New York ).

Peru has signed a number of free trade agreements, including the 2007 United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, and agreements with Chile, Canada, Singapore, Thailand and China. Under President Alan Garcia administration Peru achieved a bilateral Trade agreement with U. S. since 2010 to improve exports for its country and reach in August 2011 its pick in exports of more than 4, 700 MM.

It has been a supporter of East Timor since the latter's independence and has expanded trade links with its traditional allies Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates in law from Keio University in Tokyo, the National University of Singapore, and the University of New South Wales

Singapore has attempted to boost the fertility rate for years to the replacement level of 2. 1 birth per woman.

The role of the president as the head of state has been, historically, largely ceremonial although the constitution was amended in 1991 to give the president some veto powers in a few key decisions such as the use of the national reserves and the appointment of key judiciary, Civil Service and Singapore Armed Forces posts.

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

Amnesty International has criticised Singapore for having " possibly the highest execution rate in the world " per capita.

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.

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 also emerged as the top port in terms of cargo tonnage handled with 393 million tonnes of cargo in the same year, beating the Port of Rotterdam for the first time in the process.

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.