From the article, At this rate the world’s financial architecture will have been remade before November 15th, by Brad Setser in Counciloil Foreign Relations.
First, all the countries that got access to the Fed’s swap lines are US allies, and all except Singapore are democracies. Russia may be part of the G-8 but it is outside of this club.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore public housing: 'A nation of homeowners', in AFP.
Public housing is often associated with poverty-stricken slums and other social ills but Singapore's high-rise apartment blocks built by the government are an exception.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Lessons on governance from Singapore, by James Shikwati in Business Daily.
The biggest lesson from Singapore is that they do not simply copy and paste policies – the country is run on the basis of pragmatism and reason!Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Muslim invites Catholic nuns and friends from other religions to break Ramadan fast, in the Catholic News (Singapore) by Daniel Tay.
On Sep 8, instead of breaking fast with other Muslims, Abdeali invited friends from other religions to join him in iftar, the evening meal after fasting. The gathering that evening at the Muslim Kidney Action Association included at least four Canossian sisters, a Methodist bishop, several Buddhist monks, a Hindu swami, a Taoist priest, a Jain monk and two Brahma Kumaris.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Final Thoughts on Singapore, in Everything Everywhere blog by Gary Arndt after his second visit to Singapore.
One of the things I came away with was how Singapore, while a country, is run almost like a corporation.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Innocent until proven positive, by Nadja Popovich in McGill Daily about the challenges faced in implementing such laws.
Laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV, in their various forms, have been implemented from Texas to Zimbabwe, Sweden to Singapore, transgressing cultural and economic boundaries.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore model more suited to city, The Times of India about Mumbai's administrators now feel Singapore's model is more suited for its redevelopment as a world-class city.
Before working on the plan, the experts studied the concept plan prepared a few decades ago for Singapore, which is considered the most successful city in the world for effectively implementing its vision document.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore: An Island of Commodities, in CommoditiesOnline.
For the record, Singapore is the sixth wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP per capita. And soon, the world's most efficient city state may become the global hub for commodities trading.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, China Sees Singapore As a Model for Progress, by Nicholas D. Kristor in The New York Times in 1992.
One of the most illuminating statements he [Mr. Deng, Xiaoping] made was this: Singapore's social order is rather good. Its leaders exercise strict management. We should learn from their experience, and we should do a better job than they do.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Foreigners bolstering Singapore's birth rate: report, in Reuters Life! by Melanie Lee, editing by Miral Fahmy.
A total of 16,232 babies were born in Singapore between January and May, with about 25 percent having foreign fathers and about 36 percent with foreign mothers, ...Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, A tidal wave of humanity, in Independent Online.
Cities like Singapore and Busan, South Korea, show it is possible "to grow at breakneck speed without undermining nature," said Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity.Find Singapore here.
This is from the AFP article, Singapore: Asia's Switzerland for millionaires.
The tiny, tropical island-state, Southeast Asia's most advanced economy, has emerged as a centre for the wealth management industry which caters to an elite breed called high net worth individuals, or HNWIs.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore Medicine, in the blog Stupid Malaysia.
Singapore has not only positioned itself as a financial capital, leading innovator in the arms industry, petroleum processing centre, biotechnological centre. It has now almost emerged as a medical hub. Providing unsurpassed medical treatment and care to well paying patients either from countries where medical treatment are prohibitive and countries in which expertise are lacking.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore emerging as 'tuition nation', in The Earth Times by DPA.
Ninety-seven out of 100 students queried in primary, secondary and junior colleges have either private tutors or attend extra lessons at centres.Find Singapore here.
So pervasive is the practice that some dub the city-state the "tuition nation," the poll report said.
This is from the article, Lawmakers seek Singapore's help on how to best teach math, by By Lisa Schencker in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Singaporean eighth-graders scored first in the world in math on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study in 2003. Nine countries' students outperformed U.S. eighth-graders in the study.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore Airlines Inspired By Air India? in The Kamla Bhatt Show.
This is a two-part interview. In Part-1 Raj talks about the connection between Air India and Singapore Airlines, and how with laser sharp focus the airlines emerged as one of the top airlines in the world. How did Singapore Airlines do it? How did they do their branding and marketing? How did Singapore Airlines emerge as a trend setter known for its excellent service, innovation and marketing?Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, In Singapore, a House Steeped in Tradition, in the New York Times, Great Homes and Destinations by By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop about a house at S$22000 rent.
The Pickerings’ is one of 33 black-and-white houses around the Mount Pleasant area; there are similar pockets elsewhere in the city. The houses are magnets for expatriates but unloved by Singaporeans, for whom they have sinister associations. “Some of the more senior taxi drivers don’t like to come here at night,” Mrs. Pickering said. “These houses were taken over by the high command of the Japanese military during the Second World War, and some Singaporeans believe they’re haunted.”Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Mumbai improves ranking in attracting foreign investment, in The Economic Times.
In terms of overall ranking, Mumbai has been placed at 48th spot with London retaining the top slot as the global economy's most influential city, it said.Find Singapore here.
In addition to London, top five positions are occupied by New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Chicago.
This is from the article, Health care - another embarassing (but inspiring) Singapore comparison, in Stephenfranks.co.nz by Stephen Franks about the Healthcare Systems.
When I first visited Singapore, from recollection their per capita incomes were about half ours. Now they earn an average US$4500 more per capita. They spend in total on health US$ 1,140 per person, about half what we spend.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Rwanda Strives to Become High Technology Hub for Africa, in Voice of America by Cathy Majtenyi
Kigali about Rwanda transformation into "the Singapore of Africa".
"We are trying to be the hub within this continent. We are trying to be a services hub, we are trying to be a point of reference for the other countries on the continent in terms of how a third-world country can take itself from the state that most people in the world know Rwanda was in 1994, to a middle-income status country by the year 2020. That really is what Singapore has done," Nyirishema said.Find Singapore here.
This appear in the article, Big Breaks, in Sunday Heralds by Travelguru.
Top International Honeymoon destinations such as Madives and singapore provides ample oppurtunity to tourists for relishing their outings.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Our Pro-poor health care policy rewarded, by Professor Chula Goonasekera in The Island Online.
We are a tropical country with a 20 million population. Its birth rate and death rate are reducing with a reduction in population growth. Currently life expectancy in Sri Lanka is estimated to be 68 for males and 75 for females. As a result, our population pyramid had now begun to invert and Sri Lanka is expected to be the third oldest country in Asia after Japan and Singapore by 2010 in the Asian region. Unfortunately, to date, we are yet to pay sufficient attention to care for our increasingly aged population.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Singapore Math: Intensive Teacher Trainings, in the Dyslexia Tutor: News Resources by Adrienne Edwards about Singapore Maths.
When the US Department of Education commissioned a study in 2005 to find out why Singapore, a country with a population half the size of New York City, ALWAYS scores No. 1 in a widely accepted comparison of global math skills, it concluded, “Singapore’s textbooks build deep understanding of mathematical concepts through multi-step problems and concrete illustrations that demonstrate how abstract mathematical concepts are used to solve problems from different perspectives.”Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Why Israel is the world's happiest country, in Asia Times Online by Spengler.
The contrast of Israeli happiness and Arab despondency is what makes peace an elusive goal in the region. It cannot be attributed to material conditions of life. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia ranks 171st on an international quality of life index, below Rwanda. Israel is tied with Singapore on this index, although it should be observed that Israel ranks a runaway first on my life-preference index, whereas Singapore comes in dead last.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, City-state a role model for the world, in The Star Online by Seah Chiang Nee about the many merit of Singapore.
Well-known author Catherine Lim painted this possible scenario for Singapore in 2030: “China rises to superpower status as the US declines and is in a position to offer an alternative to the discredited Western liberal democracy.Find Singapore here.
“In its skilful blend of authoritarianism and capitalism, its (China's) system is not unlike Singapore’s.
“If Singapore and China become thus twinned on the world stage, the Lee Kuan Yew model of governance will have achieved an international acceptance that the PAP could never have dreamed of.”
This is from the article, Cyclone Nargis May Bring Change In Its Destructive Wake, Georgie Anne Geyer in Yahoo!News.
In Southeast Asia, where China has accomplished a 10 percent growth rate for several years, where Singapore has become the model of development for the world, and where countries such as once ethnically torn Malaysia have found ways to thrive, Myanmar is more and more an anomaly.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Intellectual Property & Development, in Latin Business Chronicle by John Murphy.
Though Singapore is a tiny country compared to India, it has managed to attract four times as much direct investment from around the globe — about $200 billion — much of it in high-wage sectors that are reliant on intellectual property. Consider these examples:Find Singapore here.
* Lucasfilm Animation, owned by George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars films, opened its only digital animation studio outside the United States in Singapore in 2005.
* BMW recently set up its first design studio outside Germany or the United States — in Singapore.
* Pfizer recently opened a $600 million manufacturing facility in Singapore.
This is from the article, Singapore fears maid exodus to Hong Kong, Taiwan, on Reuters by Gillian Murdoch.
Indonesian and Sri Lankan maids are paid S$280 ($200) a month in Singapore, and Filipinas up to S$350 ($256).Find Singapore here.
That is less than half what they can earn in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where employers pay $506 and $550 respectively.
This is from the article, Ministry gears to improve education quality, in Daily News of Republic of Botswana on education.
As a soft qualitative skill, he said some countries such as Singapore and USA were leading in the maximisation of human capital that drives their national economy.Find Singapore here.
This is from the article, Elementary math lessons in Wentzville will change to Singapore method, in STLtoday.com by Jessica Bock.
WENTZVILLE — Singapore is coming to Wentzville in the form of math lessons.Find Singapore here.
Educators hope Singapore math will help develop students who are mathematical thinkers, rather than memorizers. The method has gained interest from teachers in the United States in the last decade.
