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Singapore Pools (Private) Limited is a state-owned lottery subsidiary company in Singapore. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tote Board, it is the only operator ...
Toto (est. in 1968 and stylised as TOTO) is a legalised form of lottery sold in Singapore, known by different names elsewhere. It is held by Singapore Pools, the only legal lottery operator in Singapore. As of April 2015, it was the second most popular type of gambling activity after 4-Digits. [2]
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is the seventh-largest in the world, with a market capitalisation of HK$30.4 trillion (US$3.87 trillion) as of December 2018. [225] Hong Kong is ranked as the 18th most innovative territory in the Global Innovation Index in 2024, [ 226 ] and 3rd in the Global Financial Centres Index . [ 227 ]
Lyndhurst Terrace and the surrounding area were the location of some of the earliest brothels established in Hong Kong, [14] in the mid-19th century. The Cantonese name of the street, 擺花 (pai fa) literally means "flower arrangement", possibly because of presence of numerous stalls in the area in the mid-19th century, selling flowers [15] to the customers of the nearby brothels. [16]
In addition to being represented by the Chinese Embassy, the Government of the Hong Kong SAR also operates a Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Singapore. [1] Similarly, in addition to its Embassy in Beijing, Singapore has a Consulate-General in Hong Kong. [2] When Hong Kong was under British rule, it was known as the Singapore Commission. [3]
Swire Shipping is the wholly owned shipping arm of John Swire & Sons Limited, headquartered in Singapore. It operates shipping agencies for its liner shipping trades. The company has a 67% shareholding in Quadrant Pacific of New Zealand that provides third-party agency services to the forestry and oil industries, as well as husbandry services.
It was reported that circa 1948, Hongkong Realty is majority owned by Marden and Co. already, [9] which the latter is the predecessor of the current Wheelock and Co. Marden-Wheelock was owned by Marden family until the 1980s., which it was takeover by Hong Kong ethnic Chinese business magnate Yue-Kong Pao, the maternal grandfather of the ...