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Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company [5] operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
March 2000 ; 24 years ago(2000-03) Gumtree.com, known as Gumtree, is a British-based online classified advertisement and community website based at Hotham House, Richmond, London. Classified ads are either free or paid for depending on the product category and the geographical market. As of November 2010, it was the UK's largest website for ...
Event. 1819. 29 January. Sir Stamford Raffles arrives in Singapore with William Farquhar to establish a trading post for the British East India Company . 6 February. The treaty is signed between Sultan Hussein of Johor, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sir Stamford Raffles . William Farquhar is installed as the first Resident of the settlement . 1821.
9–13 December – The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1996 took place in Singapore, the first Ministerial Conference to be held. [39] 23 December – Nomination day for 1997 General Election: The People's Action Party wins 47 uncontested seats and hence returns to power. [40]
27 March – Benjamin Tan, Mediacorp actor. 14 June – JianHao Tan, Singaporean Youtuber. 16 June – Richie Koh, Mediacorp actor and Best Actor winner in Star Awards 2023. 24 September – Narelle Kheng, The Sam Willows member. 11 October – Tasha Low, ex-Skarf member turned Singaporean actress.
Singapore has reclaimed land with earth obtained from its own hills, the seabed, and neighboring countries. As a result, Singapore's land area has grown from 581.5 km 2 in the 1960s to 725.7 km 2 today, and will increase slightly more due to the construction of sea polder and barrage to deal with the ever-rising sea level. Climate
January. 1 January –. The Goods and Services Tax is raised from 3% to 4%. [1] The Media Development Authority is formed to better regulate and encourage Singapore's media industry. 3 January – RSS Courageous got into a collision with ANL Indonesia, causing four fatalities. An investigation found that errors by the RSS Courageous crew ...
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.It is located about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to ...