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The National Service (Amendment) Bill was passed on 14 March 1967, making National Service (NS) compulsory for all 18-year-old male Singapore citizens and permanent residents. The Singapore government felt that it was necessary to build a substantial military force to defend the country, which had only about 1,000 soldiers when it became ...
Initially named the Outward Bound School of Singapore, it was founded by then Minister of the Interior and Defence, Goh Keng Swee at Pulau Ubin in Singapore in 1967. [2] OBSS was initially managed by the People's Association (PA) before the Ministry of the Interior and Defence took over to use it as a facility to prepare young men for compulsory national service.
In 1982, Singapore Hotel Association planned to set up Shatec with École hôtelière de Lausanne to provide a diploma course in hotel management in Singapore. [2] Courses were expected to start in June 1983. [2] In 2008, during its 25th anniversary celebration, Shatec announced that it would be rebranded as Shatec institutes. [3]
Singapore Ducktours (part of RATP Group). Visitor arrivals to Singapore has been increasing since the country's independence in 1965. [2] As compared to a total of 99,000 visitors recorded in 1965, Singapore attracted approximately 19.1 million visitors in 2019 with receipts at S$27.7 billion, according to preliminary figures by the Singapore Tourism Board.
Tourism Court at Orchard Spring Lane, the headquarters of Singapore Tourism Board Singapore Visitors Centre along Orchard Road, providing tourism information for tourists in Singapore. The board was first established on 1 January 1964 and was called the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (Abbreviation: STPB). [3] In that year, there were 91,000 ...
International Tourism Management is a degree course, whose main focuses with regard to contents consist of business basics with a tourism covering, cross cultural and social competence as well as leadership- and professional competence.
The Singapore Armed Forces National Service Medal is an award conferred on a National Serviceman (NSman) of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) who has completed an equivalent 10 years of active service. This is achieved by meaningfully and satisfactorily completed 7 High-Key In-Camp Trainings over 10 ORNS (Operationally Ready National Service ...
National service is the system of compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term national service comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. [1] [2] The length and nature of national service depends on the country in question.