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Indians in Singapore. Race in Singapore, History of Indians in Singapore, 1915 Singapore Mutiny, Languages of Singapore, Indian languages in Singapore, Religion in Singapore, Hinduism in Singapore, List of Indian organisations in Singapore, Indian cuisine in Singapore, Little India, Singapore, Indian name, List of Indians in Singapore ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Smith Street is a small street running through the heart of the Chinatown district in Singapore. The only road in the area to be named after an European, it commemorates the hugely popular Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, then Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner in 1887 to 1893, who was a Chinese scholar and responsible for most of the work to combat the problems of secret societies. As is common for roads with English names, it has an informal Chinese name, hei yuen kai, meaning Theatre Street in reference to the Lai Chun Yuen Theatre then located at unit 36 and the centre of entertainment in the Kreta Ayer area. The theatre existed sometime in the 1880s and staged Cantonese operas until 1927. With the advent of cinemas, the theatre was converted into a cinema theatre, Sun Seng Cinema, just before World War II, when it was damaged in a bomb attack in 1942. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Middle Road is a road located in the Downtown Core and Rochor within the Central Area of Singapore. It starts from its junction with Selegie Road and ends at Beach Road. Middle Road was already in existence in early Singapore, appearing in George Drumgoole Coleman's Map of Singapore in 1836. The area around Middle Road was the original settlement of the Hainanese immigrant community, a community noted for its active role in the food and beverage history of Singapore. From the late 19th century until the Second World War, the area around Middle Road, Hylam Street and Malay Street was also a bustling Japanese enclave known for its brothels of Karayuki-san and traditional shops run by the Japanese immigrants. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Singapore Tourism Board is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, tasked to promote the country's tourism industry. The board was first established in 1964 and was called the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. In that year, there were 91,000 visitors. The primary task of STPB was to coordinate the efforts of hotels, airlines and travel agents to develop the fledging tourism industry of the country.Later, STPB began to initiate new marketing ideas to promote Singapore's image aboard. The board created the Merlion, a symbol based on a Singapore mythical legend, that became an icon of the Singapore destination. The board also has been providing travel agent licensing and tourist guide training.STPB actively promotes the development of infrastructure, including the building of hotels and tourist attractions such as the Jurong Bird Park and Sentosa which now becomes a popupar resort island for both tourists and local visitors. The board also market the city as a convention venue and organised events to attract visitors. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Republic of Singapore Navy (Abbreviation: RSN; Malay: Angkatan Laut Republik Singapura; Chinese: ; Tamil:is the naval component of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), responsible for the defence of Singapore against sea-borne threats and protection of its sea lines of communications. Operating within the crowded littoral waters of the Singapore Strait, the RSN is regarded as one of the best in the region.[1] All commissioned ships of the RSN have the prefix RSS (Republic of Singapore Ship). ... Read more

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Rivervale is a neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town, and is located between Serangoon River and Compassvale. The house numbers of the public apartment blocks in Rivervale begin with the number '1' (1xx). Rivervale is the first neighbourhood of Sengkang New Town to be built, and many of the existing housing estates in Rivervale were completed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) in as early as 1997. ... Read more

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River Valley is the name of an urban planning area within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. The River Valley Planning Area is defined by the region bounded by Orchard Boulevard, Devonshire Road and Eber Road to the north, Oxley Rise and Mohamed Sultan Road to the east, Martin Road and a section of the Singapore River to the south, and Hoot Kiam Road and Grange Road to the west. Its namesake River Valley Road cuts across River Valley near its southern end. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sentosa, which translates to peace and tranquility in Malay, is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some five million people a year. Attractions include a two-kilometre long sheltered beach, Fort Siloso, two golf courses and two five-star hotels, and the upcoming Resort Worlds at Sentosa, featuring the new theme park Universal Studios Singapore. The name Blakang Mati is rather old but may not have been founded in the nineteenth century as generally believed. In fact, there exists an island that was identified as Blacan Mati in Manuel Gomes de Erédia's 1604 map of Singapore. Other early references to the island of Blakang Mati include Burne Beard Island in Wilde's 1780 MS map, Pulau Niry, Nirifa from 1690 to 1700, and the nineteenth century reference as Pulau Panjang (J.H. Moor). However, early maps did not separate Blakang Mati from the adjacent island of Pulau Brani, so it is uncertain to which island the sixteenth century place names referred. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 7577 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Analysis of proposed moves towards a more "open" Singaporean society must have as foundation detailed, qualitative explorations of ongoing socio-political practices and relations. This paper details such research undertaken with Singaporean environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to examine their actions, motives, and impacts on the political landscape. It argues that NGO volunteers' practices create distinct political spaces that embody desires to reconnect with, and imagine "another" Singapore into the future. At the same time, NGO interactions with the state and government are replete with double-edged ambiguities--a state of affairs that could potentially undermine their contributions to effective Singapore governance if moves towards greater "openness" simply mean more of the same.

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Title: Considering "green" practices: NGOs and Singapore's emergent environmental-political landscape.(non-governmental organizations )
Author: Kersty Hobson
Publication: SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: 155(22)

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Spatial database management has become an important subarea of current database research. Research in this area is often characterized by interdisciplinary cooperation: computer scientists work with geographers and environmental scientists to provide better access to spatial databases of steadily increasing size. After the First Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD '89) was held in Santa Barbara, California, in 1989 (and its proceedings published as Volume 409 of this series), a second symposium (SSD'91) was held in Zurich, Switzerland. This proceedings volume contains the papers presented at SSD '91. Topics include spatial data models and access methods, performance studies, geometric algorithms, spatial query languages and user interfaces, geographic information systems, and object-oriented techniques. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4444 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Moving beyond the OB markers: rethinking the space of civil society in Singapore.(out of bounds)
Author: Lenore Lyons
Publication: SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: 119(13)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Cultural Geography, published by JCG Press on February 1, 2009. The length of the article is 10490 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Christian identities in Singapore: religion, race and culture between state controls and transnational flows.(Report)
Author: Robbie B.H. Goh
Publication: Journal of Cultural Geography (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2009
Publisher: JCG Press
Volume: 26Issue: 1Page: 1(23)

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Transport Geography, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Central to the Singapore's land transportation strategy is to develop an extensive rapid transit network to provide quality public transport services and maximize accessibility for commuters to key nodes of employment, housing, leisure and other social activities. This paper presents a study on the impact of the mass rapid transit (MRT) network on accessibility in Singapore using an integrated GIS tool. Four types of accessibility are assessed, including the accessibility to the central business district, to working population, and to industrial and commercial opportunities. It also analyzes the changes in accessibility brought about by the new MRT lines. The accessibility analyses conducted in this study show that the closer to the central area of Singapore and the East-West MRT line a location is, the higher accessibility it attains, and the new North-East MRT line has greatly improved accessibility of the northeastern areas, but has insignificant impact on accessibility of the northern, northwestern and eastern part of the country. ... Read more

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As Fodors does like no one else, this pleasing digestible guidebook gives practical information to the traveller for an incredibly large and diverse region.A great starting point for trip planning in southeast Asia. ... Read more