; Barclays Singapore Open: this golf event is held yearly at the Sentosa Golf Club's Serapong Course.

Skandia International, which specialises in offshore investment, sponsors the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and partners the United Arab Emirates Professional Golf Association in Singapore.

Ernie Els tees off on the 2nd hole on the Serapong course at Sentosa Golf Club, Singapore in round 1 of the 2007 Singapore Open.

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Wee was also known for his love for sports, as he was an outstanding cricketer for Cambridge University in 1937 and a keen golfer serving as President of the Singapore Golf Association from 1962 to 2002.

The club served Asians who wanted to learn to play golf but could not join the exclusively-European Royal Singapore Golf Club, and other avid golfers living around Bukit Timah area.

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

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

A cornerstone of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy is its participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), of which it was a founding member in 1967 with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

# Terry Johal, " Controlling the Internet: The use of legislation and its effectiveness in Singapore ( pdf file )", Proceedings, 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, 2004.

Singapore supports the concept of Southeast Asian regionalism and plays an active role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), of which Singapore is a founding member.

The VU Alumni Association has more than 80, 000 members in more than 140 countries, including in international chapters in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Thailand.

On August 8, 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) was founded by Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

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.

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.

Racing in Malaysia and Singapore is conducted and governed under the Rules of the Malayan Racing Association.

ASEAN ( ), the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a geo-political and economic organization of 10 countries located in Southeast Asia, which was formed on August 8, 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand as a display of solidarity against communist expansion in Vietnam and insurgency within their own borders.

Singapore also maintains a diplomatic corps and has memberships in international organizations such as the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

* People's Association, in Singapore

* The Peranakan Association of Singapore

IDBF member associations or federations have been established in 62 countries or territories, since 1991 ( e. g. China DBA, Hong Kong DBA, Chinese Taipei DBA, Macau DBA, Singapore DBA, Australian DBF, United States DBF, Dragon Boat Canada, British DB Racing Association, Italian DBF, German DBA, Swiss DBA, South African DBA, Danish DBA, Chilean DBF, Uganda DBF, Trinidad & Tobago DBA ) as well as many others and there are a further 15 other Countries known to the IDBF, with a developing interest in Dragon Boating.

* Singapore The Singapore Dragon Boat Association

* Singapore Weiqi Association

On September 1, 2003, representatives from the Australian Racing Board, the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Turf Authorities of India, the Japan Racing Association, the Korea Racing Association, New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing, the Singapore Turf Club and the Jockey Club of Turkey signed the multilateral agreement in Hong Kong on September 1, 2003.

* 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.

Although the failure in political arena has reflected in the cultural isolation of emigrants, some of the successful functional bodies include Singara ( Singapore ), Dehali Kannadiga ( New Delhi ), Mumbai Karnataka Sangha ( Mumbai ), Mallige Kannada Balaga ( Mauritius ), North America Vishwa Kannada Association ( NAVIKA ) and Association of Kannada Kootas of America ( AKKA ) in the USA have promoted cultural involvement through events such as Kannadotsava.

* Yam Ah Mee ( MPA ' 91 )-Chief Executive Director of People's Association, Singapore

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.

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.

Three cities initially expressed interest in hosting the event ; Melbourne, Wellington and Singapore.

Japanese forces initially experienced great success against Allied forces in the Pacific and South East Asia, capturing Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and many Pacific Islands.

During the 1998 Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, three cities initially expressed interest in hosting the event ; Melbourne, Wellington and Singapore.

It was initially launched in Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea in June 2010,

Students were posted to several hospitals, initially at the Singapore General Hospital.

Singapore Bus Service ( SBS ) was initially formed in 1973 with the merger of three private bus companies.

The SDA was initially an alliance of four political parties: the National Solidarity Party ( NSP ), the Singapore Justice Party ( SJP ), the Singapore People's Party ( SPP ), and the Singapore Malay National Organization ( PKMS ).

According to various accounts, the loot was initially concentrated in Singapore, and later transported to the Philippines.

Junior colleges in Singapore were initially designed to offer an accelerated alternative to the traditional three-year programme, but in recent years the two-year programme has become the norm for students pursuing university education.

The Federation was initially called the Federation of Malaya ( in Malay, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu ) and it adopted its present name, Malaysia, when the States of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore ( now independent ) joined the Federation.

The Indian National Army ( INA ), formed first by Mohan Singh Deb consisted initially of prisoners taken by the Japanese in Malaya and at Singapore who were offered the choice of serving the INA by Japan.

In 1984, Stand Up for Singapore, was initially created for the sole purpose of celebrating Singapore's achievements in 25 years of self-government.

Yishun, or Nee Soon as it was initially named, is a suburban town in the northern part of Singapore, encompassing the Yishun Planning Area, in the North Region, which includes Yishun New Town and the Nee Soon private residential estate.

However, they initially failed to capture Bentan, the stronghold of the former Sultan of Malaca on the south east of the Singapore Strait and Atjeh ( the capital of a new Sultanate, which was emerging in North Sumatra ).

The group was initially engaged in ground handling and airline catering in Singapore.

Also in 1976 Videcom international with British Airways, British Caledonian and CCL launched Travicom, the world's first multi-access reservations system ( wholly based on Videcom technology ), forming a network providing distribution for initially 2 and subsequently 49 subscribing international airlines ( including British Airways, British Caledonian, TWA, Pan American World Airways, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, SAS, Air Canada, KLM, Alitalia, Cathay Pacific and JAL ) to thousands of travel agents in the UK.

At the height of the movement to change place names in Singapore to Mandarin ones using hanyu pinyin romanization, the new town to be built in the area was initially known as Zhenghua ( 正华 ), along with Yishun ( 义顺 ) for Nee Soon, and Zhujiao market for tek kha ( 竹脚 ) market in Kandang Kerbau.

In Singapore, the Latio sedan and hatchback were initially sold alongside the older and cheaper Sunny N16 and the bigger and more expensive Sylphy.

A graduate in finance and business administration from Seattle University, USA ( 1981 ), Alabbar initially worked with the UAE Central Bank, before establishing his presence internationally with a five-year stint as Director and General Manager of the Dubai Government-owned Al Khaleej Investments in Singapore.

NCsoft's licensing grant initially limits AsianMedia licensing to three countries namely, the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia.

The term was initially used for Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan ( the East Asian Tigers or Four Little Tigers ), and in the 1990s it was applied to the Republic of Ireland ( the " Celtic Tiger ").