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Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or simply Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational insurance company and subsidiary of OCBC Bank operating in the Southeast Asia region. Founded in 1908 by Alfred Hewton Fair, it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia.
A photograph of the Great Eastern's cable-paying machinery, circa 1870s. Dudley's watercolor depicts a large piece of cable-laying machinery on the rear deck of the iron sail steamer SS Great Eastern. The machinery was used to lay (also referred to as "paying out" [1]) the first transatlantic undersea cable.
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) promoted the idea of a tramway between Wisbech and Upwell, and permission to construct the line was obtained by W. L. Ollard in 1873, but he failed to raise the finance to build it. [1] The GER were still in favour of the line, and authorisation to construct it was enshrined in the Great Eastern Railway Act 1881.
Read v Great Eastern Railway (1868) LR 3 QB 555 [5] was an English tort law case which created a strong authority [6] enshrining the principle that if a deceased person has settled a damages claim discharging all the claims and causes of action against the defendant in full satisfaction within their lifetime, [7] [4] no further action can be brought by their representatives if the injured ...
He has been the chief executive officer of "Great Eastern Corporation Ltd" since 1985. The company is an asset management firm [ 2 ] that was founded in 1941 by his grandfather Fred Manning. [ 5 ] By 2009, after a brief period during which he took the company public, it had estimated assets of $102 million.
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Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain is the system of contracting the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain to private companies, which has been in effect since 1996 and was greatly altered in 2020, with rail franchising being effectively abolished in May 2021. In 2024 rail franchising was formally ...
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.