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By the 1940s and 1950s, Singapore experienced rapid population growth, with the population increasing to 1.7 million from 940,700 between 1947 and 1957. The living conditions of people in Singapore worsened, with many people living in informal settlements or cramped shophouses . [ 3 ]
Singapore later co-founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on 8 August 1967 and was admitted into the Non-Aligned Movement in 1970. [ 93 ] The Economic Development Board had been set up in 1961 to formulate and implement national economic strategies, focusing on promoting Singapore's manufacturing sector. [ 94 ]
City Developments Limited was founded on 7 September 1963 as a property company, initially starting with eight employees in Amber Mansions on Orchard Road.The company subsequently listed on the Malayan Stock Exchange (present-day Singapore Exchange) in November of the same year.
Singapore comes under the Presidency of Bengal in India. [6] 12 November: Robert Ibbetson was appointed as the second Governor of the Straits Settlements. [7] 1832: December: Singapore becomes the centre of government of the Straits Settlements. [8] [9] 1833: 7 December: Kenneth Murchison was appointed as the third Governor of the Straits ...
Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore. Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects , and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late ...
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Singapore-based GuocoLand is ranked No. 246 on Fortune’s Southeast Asia 500, which ranks the largest companies in the region by revenue. The developer debuted on Singapore’s stock exchange in ...
Singapore Real Estate Exchange (SRX) is a consortium of leading real estate agencies administered by StreetSine Technology Group in Singapore. [1] The Exchange provides the prices of recently sold properties to participating real estate agents more rapidly than conventional, official channels run by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and Housing Development Board.