Prime Minister of Singapore

resources, Singapore has flourished into a point of pride for the world. As Nicolas Berggruen, a famous French investor and philanthropist said, “Singapore was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place mostly for Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.” Singapore had been at a disadvantage for most of its early age, until the achievement of its first world status towards the end of the 20th century. Much of this success can be attributed to the first prime minister

records, including artefacts from the National Museum Collection, the selected exhibition brings us through Mr Lee’s early years at Cambridge while he was studying law and his experiences in the anti-colonial struggle which was weaved as part of the Singapore History. History covers many aspects of truth and this essay will look into how these snippets of history were selected on the basis of various facts, ideas, values, artefacts and how these ideas affect the way history is crafted as the truth and

Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia’s state oil and gas company, will build a $20 billion refining complex bordering Singapore to benefit from increased global demand for petrochemicals and plastics. Prime Minister Najib Razak told reporters in Kuala Lumpur that Petronas, as it is known, will construct a crude oil refinery with a capacity of 300,000 barrels a day, a naphtha cracker, petrochemicals and polymer facilities in Pengerang, in the country’s southern state of Johor. It may also construct a

"The [Singaporean] government has frequently referred to Singapore 's population as its only natural resource and described education in the vocabulary of resource development” (Lepoer, 1989). The Global Information Technology Report has Singapore as a world leader in the quality of their education as well as Internet access provided to their schools (Dutta, Geiger, & Lanvin, 2015). Singapore has accomplished this by having meticulous outlines on what the public school system looks to accomplish

2012. XI Jinping appointed Secretary General Party in November, became President of the Republic following HU Jintao and Li Keqiang succeeded as Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. The composition of the new government was announced on 16 March 2013. In addition to the Prime Minister, it has four deputy prime ministers, five state councilors and twenty-five ministers and presidents of state commissions. Major suppliers: European Union, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan. Share of main sectors in GDP (World Bank) agriculture:

Decolonization in the British Empire is a deliberate process involving the colonial power and emerging local elite. The discussions in Chapters 1 and 2 provide insights into colonial development and the pre-independence environment which provide context for answering the research questions and testing the hypotheses. This chapter examines the first question- why do some newly sovereign states retain ties with the JCPC? Based on my theory that states chose the final appellant court it expects to

government support The Malaysian government supported the establishment of AirAsia in 2001 to help boost the under-used Kuala Lumpur International Airport. AirAsia 's flights from Senai are meant to develop Johor into a transport hub to rival Singapore. AirAsia, therefore, can provide an alternative route to travel to Bangkok, by using Senai Airport in Johor Bahru, in southern Malaysia. Opportunities faced by AirAsia in light of internal development 1.Issue of IPO Kamarudin Meranun, AirAsia

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Singaporean independence in 1965. Then, Singapore was just another colony to break away from the dying embers of the British Empire, many of its people destitute and impoverished. Today, in only half a century, Singapore has become one of safest nations in the world, an Asian Tiger with a booming economy. This is due to the hard work and genius of the nation’s father and first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Under his reforms, the economy flourished and the people were

Australia 's prime minister had changed from John Curtin to Francis Forde to Ben Chifley. He realised that Australia needed a long term plan so that the people of Australia could protect and defend themselves from potential attacks. World War 2 ended in about 1945 and communists

I agree that the main reason for formatting nation-states is nationalism. Nationalism can be defined as a combination of patriotism with sensation of nation, it includes patriotism and nation concepts (Hayes 1960: 2). Kohn (1955) defines nationalism as a state of mind, each person will be piety to their state highly because of their nation-state (Berberoglu 2004: 6). Nation-state could be defined as a group of people who have the awareness to community which share a common culture, past memory and