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Tiger attacks were particularly high in Singapore during the mid-19th century, when plantations expanded into the tiger's habitat. [233] In the 1840s, the number of deaths in the area ranged from 200 to 300 annually. [234]
The Four Asian Tigers (a.k.a. the Four Asian Dragons or Four Little Dragons in Chinese and Korean) are the developed Asian economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. [1] Between the early 1950s and 1990s , they underwent rapid industrialization and maintained exceptionally high growth rates of more than 7 percent a year.
The political purpose of the SAF in Singapore was to pose a reasonable deterrence to the two historically hostile neighbours of Singapore. [13] Singapore became known as the "most heavily armed country on earth" when it purchased light tanks, M113 armoured personnel carriers, A-4 Skyhawks, and F-5 fighter aircraft in the mid-1970s. [14]
By 1973, Taiwan's AIDC started local production of a first batch of 100 F-5Es, the first of six Peace Tiger production batches. By end of 1986 when the production line closed after completing Peace Tiger 6, the AIDC had produced 242 F-5Es and 66 F-5Fs. Taiwan was the largest operator of the type at one time, having 336 F-5E/Fs in inventory. [124]
The Tigers had their operational certification in Afghanistan in early August 2009; [69] one French officer described the Tiger's role in the theatre as "find, attack, suppress, seize, raid, and support". [13] By July 2010, it was reported that the Tiger detachment had totalled 1,000 operational hours in Afghanistan. [70]
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [c] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [d] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [13]
The first was to give Australian Hornets F/A-18C model avionics. The second and current upgrade program (HUG 2.2) updates the fleet's avionics even further. By 2021 12 (A)F/A-18A and 6 (A)F/A-18B (and an additional 7 broken down (A)F/A-18 for spare parts) were sold to the Royal Canadian Air Force. [66] CF-188
Exports to Singapore increased 5.6 percent between 2013 and 2014, but decreased 22 percent by 2016. [ 26 ] In 2013, a follow-up bilateral trade agreement to the ECFA, the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA), faced large student-led demonstrations – the Sunflower Movement – in Taipei and an occupation of the Legislative Yuan .