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Location of Singapore Singapore is a sovereign island country in maritime Southeast Asia. A global city, it has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade and more recently as a financial hub as well. Its economy is known as the most freest, most innovative, most competitive, most dynamic and most business-friendly in the world by various multinational ...
Post Office Savings Bank (POSB), acquired by DBS Bank on 16 November 1998. Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA), formed on 1 October 1994, merged into Media Development Authority on 1 January 2003. Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) corporatised as the Television Corporation of Singapore on 1 October 1994
Took office Left office Party Cabinet Goh Keng Swee MP for Kreta Ayer (1918–2010) 5 June 1959 8 August 1965 PAP: Lee K. I: Lee K. II: Lim Kim San MP for Cairnhill (1916–2006) 9 August 1965 16 August 1967 Goh Keng Swee MP for Kreta Ayer (1918–2010) 17 August 1967 10 August 1970 Lee K. III: Hon Sui Sen MP for Havelock (1916–1983) 11 ...
Despite the dubious legal status of the courts established in Singapore by Raffles and Crawfurd, they indicate that the de facto position was that between 1819 and 1826 English legal principles applied to Singapore. [4] On 24 June 1824 Singapore and Malacca were formally transferred to the East India Company's administration by the Transfer of ...
Chia is currently serving a 42-year jail term since 2004 for the crime, which was then the worst commercial crime Singapore has ever witnessed. [ 11 ] In January 2000, the CAD acted upon a report to arrest SIA cabin crew supervisor Teo Cheng Kiat for embezzling an approximate sum of $35 million from his company.
Blogging is taxable in Singapore if it constitute gains or profits from a trade or a business under section 10(1)(a) of the Income Tax Act 1947 (ITA). [5] The other tax types in Singapore which are not collected by IRAS are: Levies on motor vehicles (Land Transport Authority) Customs and excise duties (Singapore Customs)
In the early years of Singapore’s independence (from the British Empire in 1963 and from Malaysia in 1965), Tan Chay Wa had been an armed activist, possibly a Communist, who rejected the two ...
One Raffles Quay (Chinese: 莱佛士码头一号) is an office building complex located at Raffles Place, the central business district of Singapore. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, One Raffles Quay (ORQ) consists of the 50-storey North Tower and the 29-storey South Tower, totalling about 1.3 million square feet of office space. The building was ...