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When Singapore gained its independence from Malaysia in 1965, the prime minister's monthly salary was based on that of the chief minister when Singapore was still a British colony, and was fixed at S$3,500 (equivalent to $14,867 in 2022). The monthly salary was not adjusted until 1973, when ministerial pay was revised and the prime minister's ...
State Also claimed by Head of state (USD) Head of government (USD) Abkhazia Georgia Kosovo Serbia 39,650 USD [30]40,519 USD (Prime Minister) [115] Northern Cyprus Cyprus
This is a list of programmes produced and broadcast on Mediacorp Channel 5, a television channel in Singapore.The list includes those telecast when the Channel was operated by TV Singapura, Radio Television Singapore (RTS), Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) and current operator Mediacorp TV, including the HD5 from 2007 to 2015.
As part of a Cabinet reshuffle, Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong is promoted to Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, hence serving with Heng Swee Keat. The move took effect on 13 June. [65] 13 June – Firefly resumes commercial flights into and out of Seletar Airport, the first time since such operations were suspended due to the COVID-19 ...
Wong, the current finance minister, said he would announce a new cabinet line-up a few days before he is sworn in as Singapore's fourth prime minister, the Straits Times reported. Wong, 51, was ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's first prime minister in 20 years held an initial cabinet meeting on Thursday after taking office with a pledge to sustain what he called the miracle of the wealthy ...
On 3 January 1963, the Singaporean government announced the start of pilot programming effective February 15. The station was set to broadcast on VHF channel 5 in the 625-line television standard and would provide a license fee of $24 per year ($2 per month), touted at the time as being "one of the cheapest in this part of the world".
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.