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Languages spoken in Java (Javanese is shown in white) "Malay" refers to Betawi the local dialect as one of Malay creole dialect, 3.1.5 Fixed exchange rate targeting, Unlike many other central banks such as Federal Reserve System or Bank of England MAS does not regulate the monetary system via interest rates to influence the liquidity in the system Instead it chooses to do it via the foreign exchange mechanism It does so by intervening in the SGD market. PISA test documents on a school table (Neues Gymnasium Oldenburg Germany 2006), eTIMSS will continue all the benefits of TIMSS enabling countries to measure how effective they are in teaching mathematics and science, In 1954 state elections were held In these elections the Alliance won 226 of the 268 seats nationwide In the same year a Federal Legislative Council was formed comprising 100 seats 52 would be elected and the rest would be appointed by the British High Commissioner The Alliance demanded that 60 of the seats be elected but despite the Tunku flying out to London to negotiate the British held firm Elections for the council were held in 1955 and the Alliance which had now expanded to include the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC) issued a manifesto stating its goals of achieving independence by 1959 requiring a minimum of primary school education for all children protecting the rights of the Malay rulers as constitutional monarchs ending the Communist emergency and reforming the civil service through the hiring of more Malayans as opposed to foreigners.

These policies often abdicate monetary policy to the foreign monetary authority or government as monetary policy in the pegging nation must align with monetary policy in the anchor nation to maintain the exchange rate The degree to which local monetary policy becomes dependent on the anchor nation depends on factors such as capital mobility openness credit channels and other economic factors, Communicators In 1805 he was sent to Prince of Wales Island Malaya starting his long association with Southeast Asia He started with a post as assistant secretary under the Honourable Philip Dundas the new Governor of Penang at this time he also made the acquaintance of Thomas Otho Travers who would accompany him for the next twenty years.[citation needed], In 1824 the entire island as well as the Temenggong became a British possession after a further treaty with the Sultan in 1826 Singapore became part of the Straits Settlements under the jurisdiction of British India becoming the regional capital in 1836. Prior to Raffles' arrival there were only about a thousand people living on the island mostly indigenous Malays along with a handful of Chinese by 1860 the population had swelled to over 80,000 more than half being Chinese. Many of these early immigrants came to work on the pepper and gambier plantations. Later in the 1890s when the rubber industry also became established in Malaya and Singapore the island became a global centre for rubber sorting and export; !