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Between 2 Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (2nd ed. Marshall Cavendish International Asia, 2011). Ong, Siang Song. One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore (Oxford University Press--Singapore, 1984) online. Perry, John Curtis. Singapore: Unlikely Power (Oxford University Press, 2017). Tan, Kenneth Paul (2007).
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 ...
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.
During the 1920s, the city of Houston developed Hermann Park based in part on plans by Arthur Comey and George Kessler on land donated by George H. Hermann in 1922. The Houston Zoological Garden opened on the park grounds two years later. The park complex expanded with the construction of Museum of Natural History and a full-size golf course ...
The five health and happiness secrets of Singapore, "blue zone 2.0—the next frontier of aging." The longevity secrets of Singapore, the 6th blue zone city where people are living the longest ...
The first possible mention of early Singapore dates to 2nd century CE cartographic references in the Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy's Geographia. A place called Sabana or Sabara was marked on the 11th Map of Asia at the southern tip of the Golden Khersonese (meaning the Malay Peninsula) where Singapore may lie. [2]
The city-state ranks 6th in a list of top 50 cities for people with liquid investable assets of $100 million or more. Singapore is the only Southeast Asian city on a ranking of centi-millionaires ...
Singapore was one of the first countries to adopt a national AI strategy, in 2019. ... a Singapore-based cloud services provider, sees the city-state’s resource constraints as the kinds of ...