That’s why the whole country is in chaos: drugs, violence, unemployment, and homelessness. The American society is the richest and most prosperous in the world but it is hardly safe and peaceful,” (Reyes 181). America shouldn’t have input on how Singapore acts
Besides, it has emerged a front-line state with an aim in maintaining maritime security and navigation in the Asia Pacific. Also for every progressive step countries takes to advance their safety ties with the
According to History Today, “The island of Singapore at the foot of the Malay peninsula originally came under British control in 1819.”(Richard) The quote shows that Singapore was the colony of British that time, so there were some relationships between these two places. Next, according to BBC, “1922- Singapore becomes main British naval base in East Asia.” (BBC) It shows that Singapore was very important for British that time, if it is defeated, British may have big problems, so British needed to protect the colony.
Virgin Australia Virgin Australia Airlines is Australia’s second largest airlines as well as the largest by fleet size to use the Virgin brand. The airline was co-founded by British businessman Richard Branson, the founder of parent Virgin Group and Former Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey. It was established in 2000 with two aircraft operating on a single route. The airline has grown to directly serve 29 cities in Australia from hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, using a fleet of narrow-body Boeing and Embrae, and Airbus and Boeing wide body jets. Virgin Australia was launched as Virgin Blue in August 2000, with two Boeing 737-400 aircraft, one leased from then sister airline Virgin Express.
Indeed, Malaya was divided in the Malay States which were under indirect British rule as well as the Straits Settlements that were place under the authority of the British crown and the colonial office in London. The nine Malay States were ruled by monarchs or sultans until the British empire created the Federate Malaya State in 1895 after agreeing with four of these state leaders. Once again, the British benefitted of a strategic location in Southeast Asia that had natural resources and yet did not need require direct rule because local leaders were able to keep control while cooperating with the British colonial power making it once again an example of indirect colonialism. However, the other part of Malaya was made of the Straits Settlements originally administered by the East Indian company and which were later directly administered by the British Empire through the late 19th and mid 20th century as local Malaya leaders were replaced by British officials and pre-colonial institutions replaced by British structures. This happened because both economic and military interests were too much at stake in the Straits Settlements and therefore only direct rule could ensure the British interest in the region.
In 2002, PIL Group achieves US$1 Billion turnover, and it turns to double in 2005. In Year 2013 PIL achieves US$4.5 Billion turnover. PIL has in its low-profile way, operations now encompass services to many major hub ports around the world. (PIL-Information Memorandum, 23 June 2014) PESTEL ANALYSIS Political factors: Singapore is one of the most politically stable Countries in the world. It is a free-market business friendly and global oriented economy shape by an active and intervention’s government.
MAJOR PROBLEM: SINGAPORE WATER SHORTAGE ISSUE Short history of Singapore: Singapore gained independence on 9th August in 1965 from the merger with Malaysia. After its separation from Malaysia, Singapore faces major problem in many areas. Singapore is a small island of area size of 718.3km square. Given her limited land capacity, Singapore face a severe lack of natural resources such as water. In the ’60s and ’70s, Singapore was heavily reliant on imported water from Malaysia and faced urbanisation challenges such as polluted rivers, water shortages and widespread flooding.
Singapore is a sovereign state. Sovereignty is defined as the quality or state of being sovereign, or having absolute independence and power such as authority. (Dictionary.com, n.d) Additionally, a sovereign state such as Singapore can be represented as an independent nation, having full control and autonomy over its regulations and decisions within its territories. There is a great deal of challenges relating to sovereignty due to the ongoing process of globalization. However there are three challenges which stood out the most, they are the migration issues, the challenge of compromising state laws and policies to more powerful foreign nations and conflict over territories between nations.
Singapore is a republic with a parliamentary system of government. There are three branches of the Government of Singapore: Executive, Legislative and the Judiciary. Singapore and former British colony took up the Westminster model after Singapore became independent on 9 August 1965. In 1954, PAP also known as People’s Action Party was formed. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew led the PAP and won the first election to form Singapore’s first government after it enjoyed an overwhelming victory by capturing 43 out of 51 seats in the
INDIA’S INTERNATIONAL TRADE: TREND, COMPOSITION AND DIRECTION INTRODUCTION International trade is exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. India’s major imports comprise of crude oil machinery, military products, fertilizers, chemicals, gems, antiques and artworks. Indian exports comprise mainly of engineering and textile products, precious stones, petroleum products, jewellery, sugar, steel chemicals, zinc and leather products. TRENDS
Singapore is an extremely beautiful but strict country. I recently heard that one can get a 1000.00 Singaporean dollar fine just for dropping a piece of paper on the ground. There are different kinds of ethnic groups in Singapore and most of it being Chinese the rest are Malay and Indian. The president of Singapore is Tony Tan and Singapore is considered to be a republic and is the world’s only Island City State and was settled in the second century.
> Founded in 1941 and based in Pasay City, The Philippine Airlines is the country 's ultimate flag carrier and oldest airlines. The monopolization of the airline occurred in 1995 when Lucio Tan, an affluent Chinese-Filipino businessman purchased the airline and became its chairman and CEO. . Global competition in the industry > Threat to new entrants: In spite of the low switching costs and the absence of proprietary goods and services, generally speaking, there is a low threat to new entrants in the airline industry. The huge amount of capital make reprisals against new entrants through a price drop.
The G20 is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 countries. It seeks to address issues that go beyond the responsibilities of any one organization. The G20 heads of government or heads of state have periodically conferred at summits since their initial meeting in 2008. The latest one is hold in Hangzhou, China. Most people thought it important and it made the economic globalization more stable.
If this is so, how can we say that Singapore is advancing forward when the intrinsic human potentials of Singaporeans are hindered
1.0 Introduction “Governments should play active roles in managing short-run instability in the economy caused by unemployment and inflation problems. ” I strongly agree with this statement as far as my own country is concerned. Singapore, although a very small island of about 700 square kilometres in the South East Asia, is an international business hub. The population is about 5.7 million as of July 2015 which consists of Chinese, Malays, Indians and other emigrants like Filipinos and Caucasians.
