To Singapore with Love It was with sleepy eyes that I first got off the airplane and into the city of Singapore. All of a sudden, however, I was jolted awake. Colorful signs and exhibits flashed the words, "Welcome to Singapura!" At that moment, a thrill rushed through me. I had arrived in the City of the Lion, an exotic and mysterious city in the orient, about to start on an exciting journey of learning and adventure. From our first day of arrival, the delegates were treated
Should Zoos be banned is a huge topic on which millions of people have been debating on all over the world. The reason why I choose to work on this issue is because I personally feel that keeping animals in Zoos isn’t a bad idea as they provide shelter, food and Hygienic conditions for the animals to live in. Especially for the young ones, like the Turtles who leave their babies in a pond before the break out of their shell to protect them from being eaten up. However, in this process they don’t
Where is Singapore Singapore is a small island in southeast Asia. It lies at the tip of Malay peninsula, surrounded by some sixty islets. Singapore is a city-state. That means the country contains only its capital city and the area around it. The capital is also Singapore. The country of Singapore is nestled between Malaysia and Indonesia. West Malaysia lies to the north across the narrow Johor strait. Off Singapore’s southern and western coasts are Indonesian islands. Parts of Malaysia
years of unremitting efforts since independence, Singapore is not only known for its clean and beautiful country. In addition to being modern and civilized, it is also known as one of Asia’s largest financial center. Singapore is the country that have multiple nationalities. More than seventy percent are Chinese, the rests are Malay and Indian. It is also a country with a very diverse culture. Singaporean attach seriously in communication culture. Singapore has four official languages, those are Hyphenation
Introduction In the early years, Singapore was a small fishing village back then, but now, it has grown into a metropolitan city with world-class infrastructure. Today, Singapore also became the world most visited tourist attraction for foreigner due the fun and exciting activities, high end shopping mall, luxury hotel and fine dining. Moving around in Singapore is easy and convenient for tourist as the country has an excellent public transport system. Apart from attracting tourist, the country
2.0 Malaysian Culture Malaysia is a multi-ethnic society. The main ethnic groups in Malaysia are the Malays as well as large populations of Chinese, and Indians. In addition to, the Sabah and Sarawak located at the north Borneo has a lot of indigenous ethnic groups for example like Kadazan, Iban, Bidayuh and etc. All of these ethnic groups contributed a multi-ethnic society in Malaysia. Besides that, the mixed of Malaysian society have a different culture there is a Malay culture, a Chinese culture
National identity in a country and nations was represented by national culture. Culture has been defined in the simplest form as the way of life of a person. A country’s culture which including some of the knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, customs and traditions of local with the changing of the way of thinking and accumulate over years to agree upon and pass on to the next generation . After gaining the independence in 1957, the demographic landscape of Malaya changed from an ethnically homogenous
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (1999) in his National Day Rally speech. As a small country in Asia with limited natural resources, Singapore government’s plan to turn their economy from labor-based economy into a knowledge-based economy has been a success. The government focused on improving the education system and aimed to become Asia’s education hub (Lee, 1999). Today, Singapore is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and its economy is considered one of the greatest, ranking second after Switzerland
INTRODUCTION Singapore Officially known as the Republic of Singapore, is the world's only sovereign city-state that is also an island country. It lies in Southeast Asia off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and 137 kilometres north of the equator. Made up of the lozenge-shaped main island (widely known as Singapore Island, but also as Pulau Ujong, its native Malay name) and over 60 much smaller islets, it is separated from Peninsular Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's
Brief Description Singapore started off as a multiracial country and its population was made up of a melting pot of different immigrants from different countries. Over the years, our medium of communication between the different races has been modified and peppered with numerous phrases from different languages from different dialects such as Hokkien and Malay. These phrases include “lah”, “waliao”, and “makan”. This Singaporean Slang is known as Singlish. Singlish is widely recognized by both local
Malaysia and Singapore, which in the year 2000 and 2001 respectively (OECD, 2014). In contrast, Hong Kong has become the first Asian country that produced the Code of Best Practice, which was officially released in 1993 (ACGA, 2012). By having the Code before 1997 Asian financial crisis, Hong Kong became a top-ranked country with strong corporate governance practice in early 2000s. However, as the development of corporate governance practices were actively took place in Asia, Singapore replaces Hong
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Singapore, or the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation located just off the southern coast of Malaysia. This southeastern city-state is separated from its northern neighbor by the Johore Strait. Singapore is separated from Indonesia on the south side by the Singapore Strait (Ho, Winstedt, Leinbach, & Kenndard, 2016). The advanced logistics infrastructure of Singapore supports continued business growth and attraction to the developing country (“Comparing Logistics Infrastructure of Countries
Singapore, being a well-known cosmopolitan city, has many of its cultural roots coming from all over the world. Ever since the first record of Singapore’s’ population structure, the Chinese have dominated in racial concentration, now with a staggering 74.2% in 2013 . Through the course of history, these Chinese migrants have brought different cultural and religious norms, food preferences and conversing language to the little red dot from their various provinces. This essay will focus mainly on the
colonialism in Malaysia. Japan was a great force in Eastern Asia between 19th and 20th centuries and it has much influence areas that spread year by year. So, Japan captured and occupied many countries before and during World War II such as: (Malaysia-Singapore-Philippines… etc.) Malaysia was the main goal for Japan, because Malaysia has many areas are available for agriculture and Japan was wanting some crops. Another reason, Japan needed more land for high populations of Japanese people in Japan. On December
Singapore is a city-state main island that is in Southeastern Asia, located off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of Indonesia between latitudes 1º 09´N and 1º 29´N and longitudes 103º 36´E and 104º 25´E. The Malay Peninsula is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) north of the Equator and consists of the diamond-shaped island called Singapore. Singapore lies directly between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean with the makeup of 63 separate islands. The total land area of Singapore is
The Chinese community in Singapore can be divided into two clusters that is, the Chinese migrants from China that still regarded China, as their “home” as well as the Straits Chinese who mostly did not consider themselves as citizens of China rather, they were British citizens that considered Singapore their home. Straits Chinese or the Queen’s Chinese was not bothered about the politics in China and were mostly educated in English schools. This paper will therefore discuss the challenges in education
Singapore theatre is greatly influenced by the theatre of Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen, especially in regard to the purpose of the play. Ibsen and Chekhov use their plays as social commentaries to explore Europe’s social issues and criticise outdated norms; Singaporean plays function as social commentaries, too. However, Singapore theatre and the theatre of Chekhov and Ibsen are definitely not entirely the same, with writing styles being a main contrast. This paper examines how much the work of
Dialect is a specific form of a language that has great significance to a nationality [1]. According to the United Nations, there are 56 nationalities in China and more than 100 of the dialect languages are in danger of extinction [2]. This striking statistic illustrates the importance of Chinese dialect preserving. This essay will describe the problems regard to disappearance of the dialect, and outline the solutions that make the efforts to preserve the dialects, with accurate evaluation. Dialects
Introduction Singapore as a country has had various transformations throughout its history, however the period 1950 and 1970 was quite critical. Much of these changes had a lot to do with the development of trade and manufacturing. This is without forgetting the financial sector where the intention was to come up with a financial hub that could be used in economic development. Looking at the case of Singapore, we would say that it is a productive economy with a very high market competition. This