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The most important category of Singapore initialisms are those for government departments and public institutions. Among the earliest examples are PUB ("Public Utilities Board") and HDB ("Housing Development Board"). Abbreviations such as these were especially important in the past when most Singaporeans were not educated in English, and their ...
In January 2023, CIS opened the Toh Tuck Wing, a Kindergarten wing and sporting facility. [14] [15] In June 2020, China Maple Leaf Educational Systems Limited acquired CIS in a deal valued at S$680 million. [16] Today, CIS is a full-program International Baccalaureate (IB) school in Singapore, housing children in nursery to grade 12.
NCS was founded in 1981 when the Government of Singapore embarked upon initiatives to harness information technology (IT) for both the public and private sectors. [4] It was restructured as a commercial entity in 1996 and a year later, became a wholly owned subsidiary of SingTel Group. [5] NCS adopted its current name on 1 November 2003. [4]
The Internal Security Act 1960 (ISA) of Singapore is a statute that grants the executive power to enforce preventive detention, prevent subversion, suppress organized violence against persons and property, and do other things incidental to the internal security of Singapore.
The STK 50 MG, formerly known as the CIS 50MG, [a] is a gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed heavy machine gun developed and manufactured by Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now ST Kinetics) in the late 1980s, in response to a request by the Singaporean Defence Ministry to replace the 12.7mm Browning M2HB machine guns then in ubiquitous service with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF).
The STK 40 GL, formerly the CIS 40 GL [a] is a 40 mm grenade launcher, developed in the late 1980s and produced by the Singaporean defense firm CIS - Chartered Industries of Singapore (currently ST Kinetics). The launcher is employed primarily by the Singapore Armed Forces and the police and security forces of several other countries. [1]
The SID shared a similar background to its domestic counterpart, the Internal Security Department (ISD).. In the aftermath of 1915 Singapore Mutiny, to collect the political intelligence, espionage, and the surveillance of potential subversives, [6] a political intelligence bureau was established in Singapore under direct command and control of Major-General Dudley Howard Ridout, General ...
On 29 March 1994, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev complained that the CIS was inadequate and did not provide the integration that the countries badly needed. He proposed the creation of a Eurasian Union of States as a new organization completely separate from the CIS. For the first time it was suggested to use the name “Eurasian ...