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Singaporean and public
The New York Times ran several editorials and op-eds that condemned the punishment and called on the American public to flood the Singaporean embassy with protests.
About 52. 4 % of Singaporean residents ( excluding foreigners ) go to work using public transport according to the Singapore Census of Population 2000, with 41. 6 % using private transport and the remaining 6. 1 % not requiring any form of transport.
Its satirical criticism of the Singaporean education system and social attitudes in Singapore sparked public discussions and parliamentary debates that led to reforms in the education system.
The Pingat Gagah Perkasa ( Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, 杰出英勇奖章 ), instituted in 1962, is awarded to members of the Singapore Police Force, as well as members of the Singaporean public who displayed outstanding performance or exceptional bravery in situations involving a threat to personal danger.
In response to public disquiet, Goh Chok Tong said that, spread across the population, the rises amounted to about $ 11 per person, equivalent to " about five plates of char kway teow &# 91 ; fried noodles with cockles &# 93 ; per Singaporean ".
His perception was that this would provide greater legitimacy to the legislature and greater public confidence in the Singaporean political system.
The particular program featured actors re-enacting the supposedly true-life account of a young, masculine gay Singaporean man cruising for sex in public swimming pools and toilets.
Another Singaporean public transport operator SMRT has omitted the ' 4 ' as the first two digit of the serial number of the train car for ( North South and East West ) Lines as well as the SMRT Buses NightRider services.
* Seow Poh Leng ( 1883 – 1942 ), a prominent and successful Singaporean banker, founding member of the Ho Hong Bank, member of the committee of the Straits Settlement ( Settlement of Singapore ) famous philanthropist and benefactor of public development works.

Singaporean and transport
In summary, Singapore's urban and transport strategy allowed the users to have pro-transit " carrots " matching auto-restraint " sticks ", and as a result, despite having one of the highest per capita incomes in Asia, 32 % of Singaporean households owned cars in 2010.

Singaporean and operator
Sustained growth after 2000 was also largely possible as Maersk Sealand, the world's largest container ship operator, took a 30 % equity stake in the port's holding company, Seaport Terminal in a deal concluded on 17 August 2000, effectively shifting all of Maersk's operations to the new port from the Singaporean port by the end of that year.

Singaporean and Transit
This station is also themed with the artworks from the The Reflections series by the late Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay, as part of the Art in Transit project.

Singaporean and has
Moreover, Singaporean troops continue to train in Taiwan, an arrangement which has been in place since the 1970s.
The Economist regularly has difficulties with the ruling party of Singapore ( the People's Action Party ), which had successfully sued it, in a Singaporean court, for libel.
The first exhibition will focus on art from South and Southeast Asia and is to be curated by Singaporean June Yap, who has worked for six years in the curatorial departments of modern and contemporary art museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.
However, as of October 2009, the Singaporean Ministry of Education has put off funding plans.
In today's context, Brunei Reserve Unit has about 500 Gurkhas, retired from the British army and the Singaporean Police who take up the security job in Brunei as a second career.
Singapore has one of the highest per capita incomes in Asia by fewer than 30 % of Singaporean households owns cars.
Japanese popular " kawaii culture " has had an effect on Singaporean youth.
Filmi music composed by A. R. Rahman ( who would later win two Academy Awards for the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack ) has frequently been sampled by musicians elsewhere in the world, including the Singaporean artist Kelly Poon, the Uzbek artist Iroda Dilroz, the French rap group La Caution, the American artist Ciara, and the German band Löwenherz, among others.
Between these years, Sultan Iskandar has been awarded or been given the following awards by Singaporean political leaders:
To date, Raffles Institution has produced 88 President's Scholars and remains the only Singaporean member of the G20 Group of Schools.
Melton was also characterized as an " apologist " in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, and by a Singaporean lawyer as a " cult apologist who has a long association of defending the practices of destructive cults " in the Straits Times, and in an article: " Apologist versus Alarmist ", in Time Magazine.
In a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks, senior Singaporean foreign ministry official Bilahari Kausikan asserted that Vajiralongkorn has a gambling habit which was partly funded by now exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
Russell Lee is a Singaporean author best known as the creator of True Singapore Ghost Stories, a series of books that has been among the most popular source of ghost stories in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong ever since the release of Book 1 in 1989.
Despite regional competition, the airline has reiterated its current intention to remain focused on flying within a five-hour radius from its Singaporean base.
The Singaporean government has a law that requires a car leaving Singapore to have a fuel tank that is mostly full, to prevent it from being filled with fuel from outside Singapore.
However the Singaporean Government has made attempts to temper Kiasu-ism slightly.
This uniquely Singaporean game involves two to four players each occupying one half of the pitch, each trying to score from his own half. Players can score as long as the ball is in their own half. If a ball rolls into a player's half immediately after he has taken a kick, he may kick again. Handballs result in disqualification. There are no limits to the number of touches a player can make. The first to an agreed upon number of goals wins. The game focuses on long-range accuracy and power to propel the ball accurately into the goal. Control is also an important aspect as to prevent the ball from rolling into the opponent's half. It is often played when footballers are tired as it does not use up too much energy, has simple rules, provides a good challenge and yet is good entertainment. The above are just some common rules as player's will each have their own versions of the game.
Being located on the site of the Peck San Theng cemetery, the station is rumoured to be haunted, and has been the subject of several Singaporean urban legends, as well as the site for alleged ghost encounters.
As a 1994 winner of the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat ( state medal ), the first Singaporean footballer to play in Europe, the first Singaporean millionaire sportsperson and first Singaporean sportsperson to have a published biography, Fandi has been called a national legend.
For instance, Mandarin Chinese has replaced Singaporean Hokkien as the lingua franca of Chinese community in Singapore today.
There has been a general language attrition in the use of Chinese other than Mandarin, especially amongst young Singaporean populace.
Recent premieres of works by Australian composers James Ledger and Douglas Knehans were critically acclaimed and he has also worked with Singaporean composers Ho Chee Kong, the late Leong Yoon Pin, Bernard Tan and the late Tsao Chieh.

Singaporean and number
This would have decreased the number of Singaporean citizens on the board of the combined company and would have given addition seats to Australians.
In the 1991 Singaporean general election, the maximum number of candidates was raised from three to four.
A number of Singaporean writers such as Tan Swie Hian and Kuo Pao Kun have contributed work in more than one language.

Singaporean and for
Since 17 April 2011 Chinese and Singaporean diplomatic, official and official ordinary passport holders able to enjoy 30-day transit visa-free service for entering each other's country.
Human Resource is another vital issue for the health of Singaporean economy.
The next year, Su goes to Singapore and visits Chow's apartment where she calls Chow, who is working for a Singaporean newspaper, but she remains silent on the phone when Chow picks up.
It was a key resource for the famous, but ultimately unsuccessful attempt by Singaporean surgeons to separate Iranian twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani in 2003.
For example, in Hong Kong and mainland China, Asian cuisine is a general umbrella term for Japanese cuisine, Korean cuisine, Filipino cuisine, Thai cuisine, Vietnamese cuisine, Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine and Indonesian cuisine ; but Chinese cuisine and Indian cuisine are excluded.
* La, the final particle of assertion in Mandarin – often adopted for use in Malaysian and Singaporean English.
The lives of the inhabitants of Pulau Tekong before it was turned into a training area for the Singaporean military was portrayed in the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation ( now MediaCorp ) Channel 8 drama Son of Pulau Tekong.
In January 2003, Singaporean artist Justin Lee Chee Kong was prevented by the Media Development Authority ( MDA ) from exhibiting a painting entitled Double Happiness — A Fantasy in Red, which consisted of an image of the Singapore flag with various red images of the Chinese characters for double happiness.
In November 2010, during the Asian Games held in China, the Singaporean men's water polo team's swim trunks came under controversy for inappropriately displaying elements of the Singaporean Flag.
Following the Singaporean general election, 1984, all the old Central Executive Committee members had resigned on 1 January 1985, except for Lee Kuan Yew himself.
Lee also initiated several relaxations of the requirements for Singapore citizenship, notably for foreign-born children of Singaporean women.
In Malaysia and Singapore, the term " rojak " is also used as a colloquial expression for an eclectic mix, in particular as a word describing the multi-ethnic character of Malaysian and Singaporean society.
Upon completion of the 4-or 5-year secondary school education, students ( excluding IP students ) will participate in the annual Singaporean GCE ' O ' Level, the results of which determine which pre-universities or post-secondary institutions they may apply for.
Singaporean English Creole ( Singlish ) optionally marks the past tense, most often in irregular verbs ( e. g., go → went ) and regular verbs like accept which require an extra syllable for the past tense suffix-ed.
In 2006 while serving as chief China correspondent for the Singaporean newspaper, The Straits Times, Ching was detained for 1, 000 days under suspicion of espionage.
Their support for Singlish stems from the belief that Singlish can forge social cohesion and according to some, “ It may be the only thing that makes us Singaporean Likewise, celebrity STOMP blogger, Leow Ju Len says in this blog post: I mean, our tourism slogan is ' Uniquely Singapore ', and what could be more uniquely Singaporean than Singlish ?".
" TalkingCock found it important to save Singlish for it is a crucial part of the Singaporean culture and heritage:
Some Singaporean Mahjong sets provide for a third group of flower tiles by adding two pairs of animal tiles.

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