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 ).

When Singapore started building its military in the 1970s, the Republic of China on Taiwan was one of the few places to offer assistance by providing training areas to the Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) for conducting military exercises.

This arrangement continues today and is an important aspect of the relationship between Singapore and the ROC, although the two places do not conduct joint military exercise nor is there any official military alliance.

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.

The Indian Penal Code was later reproduced in most other British colonies – and to date many of these laws are still in effect in places as far apart as Pakistan, Singapore, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Zimbabwe as well as in India.

* The UK agrees not to establish any office on the Carimon Islands or on the islands of Batam, Bintan, Lingin, or any of the other islands south of the strait of Singapore, or to make any treaties with the rulers of these places.

In 1978, Chapman went on a six-week trip around the world, inspired partly by the film Around the World in Eighty Days, visiting such places as Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Delhi, Beirut, Geneva, London, Paris, and Dublin.

In places with censoring regimes such as Singapore, Internet cafés are closely controlled.

( 1986 ) Indonesian batik: processes, patterns, and places Singapore: Oxford University Press.

The K-8 took part in its first aerial display in 1993 at the Singapore Air Show and since then has participated at Air Shows at a number of places including Dubai, Paris, Franbrough, Bangkok, Zuhai etc.

The Hong Kong Sevens tournament has been especially important in popularising the game in Asia, and rugby sevens has been important as a form of international rugby " evangelism ", hence is perhaps the most widely played form of the game, with tournaments in places as far apart as Bogota and Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Kenya, Singapore and Scandinavia, as well as the countries in which rugby union is well known.

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In some places ( for example New Zealand ( for the second-phase Restricted licence, but not the final Full licence ), Belgium, China, Estonia, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, U. A. E and the UK ), when a driver takes the licensing road test using an automatic transmission, the resulting license is restricted to the use of automatic transmissions.

The National Biodiversity Centre, in partnership with Wildlife Reserves Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and researchers Marc Cremades and Ng Soon Chye, implemented the Hornbill Conservation Project to aid in the breeding and recovery of the Oriental Pied Hornbill ( Anthracoceros albirostris ) which had previously went extinct in Singapore but has since started to re-establish itself in places like Pulau Ubin and Changi.

Recent Chinese immigrants settled in Peru from Hong Kong and, again, Macau because of fear of their return to Communist rule in 1997 and 1999, while others have come from other places in mainland China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asian Chinese communities, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

Canada had three models: Base ( cloth interior, no sunroof, steel wheels with wheel covers ), Premium ( leather interior, sunroof, alloy wheels ) and Type S. In other places, ( e. g. Hong Kong, Singapore ) only the base version is available.

Between 1812 and 1840, representatives of the ABCFM went to the following people and places: Tennessee to the Cherokee people, India ( the Bombay area ), northern Ceylon ( modern day Sri Lanka ), the Sandwich Islands ( Hawaii ); east Asia: China, Singapore and Siam ( Thailand ); the Middle East: ( Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, the Holy Land and Persia ( Iran )); and Africa: Western Africa — Cape Palmas — and Southern Africa — among the Zulus ).

Today there is a diaspora of Chettinad people who live in places such as the USA, Singapore and Malaysia.

In 1946, when the transfer of power from British to Indian hands was imminent, the Government of India included him in the panel of lawyers sent to Malaya and Singapore to defend Indian nationals charged with offences of collaboration during the Japanese occupation of those two places.

* Various places in Singapore named after Henry Keppel, including the Keppel Bay Towers and the associated roads Keppel Bay Drive, Keppel Bay View and Keppel Bay Vista ; Keppel Harbour, Keppel Hill and Keppel Road.

Speed traps are also deployed by the Singapore police at many places along the expressways.

The dish was ( and still is in some places in Malaysia and Singapore ) typically prepared at hawker stalls.

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.

This is a result of great emphasis by the Government of Singapore in order to promote its use over private transport.

Australia has devoted particular attention to relations between developed and developing nations, with emphasis on the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) — Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei — and the island states of the South Pacific.

The emphasis on territory and sphere of influence is consistent with former EIC policies in India and elsewhere, but even as the four-years long negotiations went on, the existence of Singapore strongly started to favor the new independent merchants and their houses.

Aiwa manufactures more than 89 percent of its output outside of Japan, with a heavy emphasis on the lower-cost southeast Asian nations of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

* Speak Good English Day at Singapore Polytechnic: On 28 November 2008, Students and Lecturers from the School of Business at Singapore Polytechnic held performances to emphasis the importance of speaking good English.

Expeditions out of Singapore are a major emphasis of the school's education program.

We have so far established links with over 20 universities, academic institutions and cultural organizations in the U. S. A, UK, Russia, Korea, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Singapore and Malaysia etc. Hebei University of Economics and Business, a merger of the Trade & Finance Institute, the College of Trade & Economics and Hebei Commerce College, was founded in 1995. It is a key university with an emphasis in Hebei Province.

As per the Master Plan prepared for Bintan, the emphasis was on tourism, industrial projects and agricultural products, all under private sector initiative, involving formation of a consortium of the Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation, Wah Chang International ( whose specialisation is development of resorts ), the Keppel group and the local banks.

During the great fire, hotspots could be seen on satellite images and the haze thus created affected the surrounding countries of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

The Malay and Sea Dayak pirates preyed on maritime shipping in the waters between Singapore and Hong Kong from their haven in Borneo.

Currently, overnight viewers receive 25 minute editions of BBC News every hour, and on weekdays 0100-0200 receive Newsday, live from Singapore and from London 0200-0530 BBC World News.

Rico Hizon regularly presents the main business stories from Singapore during the BBC's Asia Business Report, which is simulcast on BBC World News.

Rico Hizon ( reporting from Singapore ), Babita Sharma and Kasia Madera are the main overnight presenters on the channel, appearing on Newsday and generic BBC News bulletins.

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

These scholars have held that, if not for Confucianism's influence on these cultures, many of the people of the East Asia region would not have been able to modernize and industrialize as quickly as Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and even China have done.

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.

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.

* Japanese Film Festival ( Singapore ) – An annual curated film program focusing on classic Japanese cinema and new currents, with regular guest directors and actors.

In Singapore, FNC is broadcast on Channel 702 of the pay-TV cable operator StarHub TV digital platform.

* 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.

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.

Although the Singapore government received many calls for clemency, Fay's caning took place in Singapore on 5 May 1994.

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.

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.

His finds were displayed as an exhibit on the " Early History of Johore ", at the National Museum of Singapore, and several beads that he had discovered suggested that trade went on between the Roman Empire and the Malays, presumably, Gardner thought, via India.

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

On 31 August 1963, the British territories in North Borneo and Singapore were granted independence and formed Malaysia with the Peninsular states on 16 September 1963.

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.