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The English name of "Singapore" is an anglicisation of the native Malay name for the country, Singapura (pronounced), which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit word for 'lion city' (Sanskrit: सिंहपुर; romanised: Siṃhapura; Brahmi: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀧𑀼𑀭; literally "lion city"; siṃha means 'lion', pura means 'city' or 'fortress'). [9]
Sign board with warnings in Singapore's four main languages: English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil (from Culture of Singapore) Image 14 Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival , led by a Japanese officer, marches under a flag of truce to negotiate the capitulation of Allied forces in Singapore, on 15 February 1942.
The Monarch of the Glen is an oil-on-canvas painting of a red deer stag completed in 1851 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer. It was commissioned as part of a series of three panels to hang in the Palace of Westminster in London.
.sg is the Internet country code top-level domain for Singapore. It was first registered in September 1988. [ 2 ] It is administered by the Singapore Network Information Centre . [ 2 ]
Seaborgium, symbol Sg, a chemical element; Sega Genesis, a game console; SG-43 Goryunov, Stankovyi Goryunova Model 1943, a Soviet medium machine gun; Specific gravity (symbol SG), another name for Relative density: the weight of a volume of fluid or solution as compared to the weight of the same volume of water
William Farquhar, who served as the first resident of Singapore from 1819 to 1823. On 30 January 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles, an Englishman who was the Governor of Bencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri Maharajah, for the British East India Company to establish a "factory" or trading post on the island of Singapore.
Mr Tan (talk · contribs) Tan, also edit some contents related to Singapore in the Chinese Wikipedia. I also reside occasionally in Hawaii , United States of America. Nahnah4 ( talk · contribs ) (often found lurking around music articles and uploading cover artworks when possible)
The free-to-air channels in Singapore are run by Mediacorp and each channel is aired in one of the four official languages of Singapore. For example, Channel U and Channel 8 are Mandarin-medium channels, Channel 5 and CNA are English-medium channels, Suria is a Malay-medium channel, and Vasantham is a predominantly Tamil-medium channel.