Singapore Model Cabinet – Cabinet A‚ Environmental Security Council Topic 1: Should our islets be developed? Ministry of Education Position Paper Introduction Singapore is a small city-state surrounded by the sea‚ lacking in most forms of natural resource sans human capital. Among its most limited resources is Singapore’s physical land area of about 71 000 hectares (ha) . The government has already laid out our intention to continue to expand our land area via reclamation works off the coasts to
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Foreign Workers In Singapore Introduction In summary we are sharing some notable favorable pointers as well as some probable negative impacts of having foreign workers in Singapore. Foreign workers’ contribution had become an important factor in our sustained high economic growth. With a strong economy‚ we can expect less unemployment‚ higher bonuses‚ a stronger currency‚ attract more investors and tourists alike. Although foreign workers form a vital part of our workforce as a supplement rather
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Chee and daughter-in-law‚ two grandsons and three great-grandsons. He had devoted 25 years of his life to serving the nation in the ministries of defence‚ finance and education. Born into a middle-income Peranakan family in Malacca‚ he came to Singapore when he was two years old. His early education was at Anglo-Chinese School (1927–1936) and later at Raffles College (1936–1939). Armed with a diploma in arts‚ he entered the colonial civil service in 1939‚ but his career was interrupted by the
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1. How did Singapore achieve extremely high economic growth rates after 1965? Singapore’s high economic growth rates since 1965 may arise from government centralized control and vision. Singapore government was a core organization‚ formulated strategic plans to correspond with each period necessities and future needs. We separated in two main periods: The 1960s-1970s Issue: Minimal natural resources and a population of two million people High unemployment rate and low capital base
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“In the United Kingdom Parliament is supreme in all legislative matters; a written constitution could never be introduced because it would always be subject to express or implied amendment or repeal”. A written constitution is one which can be found in one or more legal documents which are approve in the form of laws and this system is very precise to run. The laws are created by representatives who are present at that period of timed in history and written constitutions always propagate at a
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To what extent does the parliament hold the executive to account? Parliament does not govern‚ but its role is to check or constrain the government of the day. Many therefore argue that parliament’s most important function is to ‘call the government to account’’‚ there by forcing the members to explain their actions and justify their policies. There are three groups within the UK parliament‚ the House of Commons‚ the House of Lords‚ and the Monarchy. The HoC consists of 646 MP’s and each MP is
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The Possibility for Singapore to be Independent on Food Supply National University of Singapore Hou Liwen Fan Yueyi Zhang Xingxing Introduction Food supply of a country is essential‚ because it concerns the livelihood of the citizens and it is the basis of the
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DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE IN SINGAPORE INTRODUCTION Singapore or officially known as the Republic of Singapore is an island city-state which situated in the Southeast Asia specifically lies off the southern tip of Malaysia peninsular. The total area of Singapore is 716.1 square kilometres or 270 square miles and it accommodates approximately 5‚599‚200 citizens and 823‚082 of them are consists of Muslims. Muslims in Singapore are about 14% out of the population numbers and
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HOW WELL DOES PARLIAMENT PERFORM ITS VARIOUS FUNCTIONS? Parliament is designed to hold the executive accountable; therefore it goes about this by various means of government scrutiny‚ such as Prime Minister’s Question Time. In addition‚ Parliament is expected to perform a legislative function‚ creating the process of a bill becoming a law after undergoing many stages between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Finally‚ Parliament is also required to be representative of the
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business. In this research it is more about the Singapore economy and the challenges faced during recession. The focus is on the employment issues and the difficulties undergone during recession. Unemployment is the major concern for any economy since it affects the GDP of the entire country which indirectly affects the countries development and growth. In the research we will provide the innovative ideas to increase the employment rate in Singapore economy. Word Count Number of Pages: 15
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