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The remaining 1.86 million people living in Singapore are classed as non-residents. [1] Singapore is a multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural Asian society. Major religions include Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Taoism, and Hinduism. Its people are broadly organised under the CMIO (Chinese–Malay–Indian–Other) system of categorisation.
At the time of independence, many Singaporeans living in the Central Area lived in overcrowded shophouses.In 1947, the British Housing Committee Report noted Singapore had "one of the world's worst slums – 'a disgrace to a civilised community'", and the average person per building density was 18.2 by 1947.
Singapore has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the Four Asian Tigers, and has surpassed its peers in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. Between 1965 and 1995, growth rates averaged around 6 per cent per annum ...
Instead, the facility—coming with 1,000 new high-skilled jobs—opened in Singapore, the small and highly-developed Southeast Asian country of just under six million. Many major economies are ...
The history of the Republic of Singapore began when Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. [1] After the separation, the fledgling nation had to become self-sufficient, however was faced with problems including mass unemployment, housing shortages and lack of land and natural resources such as petroleum.
The index considers the health, education, income and living conditions in a given country to provide a measure of human development which is comparable between countries and over time. [1] [2] The HDI is the most widely used indicator of human development and has changed how people view the concept.
The 1971 Concept Plan marked a change in the nature of Singapore's urban planning from one based on the possible directions Singapore's development could take to one based on the path its development should take, and the introduction of an integrated planning process brought about by inter-agency cooperation.
One vision of post-Brexit Britain involved turning it into a low-tax, low-regulation trading giant like Singapore. That dream died in the pandemic. The dream to turn Britain into Singapore-on ...