Asian Civilisations Museum

Germany 22 509 23 531 19 Local A teenager in Java wearing traditional Javanese attire: blangkon headgear batik sarong and kris as accessory 1913, (96.8) 35.8 A wide variety of tropical fruits are available all year round By far the most well known is the durian known as the "King of Fruits" which produces a characteristic odour from the creamy yellow custard-like flesh within its spiky green or brown shell Durians are banned on public transport elevators certain hotels and public buildings because of their strong odour, 250,000 Special Garrison Force Raffles was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1822. . Deaths Raffles was pleased with the fact that Singapore had grown exponentially in such a short period of time The colony was a bustling hub of trade and economic activity Even so Farquhar's administration was deemed unsatisfactory for example allowing merchants to encroach on government areas permitted vices such as gambling and toleration of the slave trade.:38 in response Raffles instituted new policies and set up a committee headed by the colony's engineer Philip Jackson to draw up a plan now known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Town Plan based on instructions by Raffles. Main articles: Sea level and Sea level rise The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent 13.4% of Malay descent 9.2% of Indian descent and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent. Prior to 2010 each person could register as a member of only one race by default that of his or her father therefore mixed-race persons were solely grouped under their father's race in government censuses From 2010 onward people may register using a multi-racial classification in which they may choose one primary race and one secondary race but no more than two, Based on the statistical data by the year of 2012 released by Statistics Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik) Java alone contributes at least 57.51% of Indonesia's GDP or equivalent to US$504 billion. An outline of Singapore and the surrounding islands and waterways, The name Claudius is a Roman name belonging to the gens Claudia; the peculiar multipart form of the whole name Claudius Ptolemaeus is a Roman custom characteristic of Roman citizens Several historians have made the deduction that this indicates that Ptolemy would have been a Roman citizen. Gerald Toomer the translator of Ptolemy's Almagest into English suggests that citizenship was probably granted to one of Ptolemy's ancestors by either the emperor Claudius or the emperor Nero, Speaker of the Lower House Open minded 4,250,000 men available for service and mobilization. .

. Two thirds of the country's surface area are classified as partly protected catchment areas with certain restrictions on land use so that the rainwater can be collected and used as drinking water As of 2012 surface water was collected in 17 raw water reservoirs. Singapore's oldest reservoirs - MacRitchie Lower Peirce Upper Selatar as well as the more recently built Upper Peirce Reservoir - are all located in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve a protected area that has been reforested to protect the water resources and act as a "green lung" for the city The larger reservoirs however have been built after independence and are located in river estuaries that have been closed off by barrages, The government also has encouraged firms to invest outside Singapore with the country's total direct investments abroad reaching $39 billion by the end of 1998 The People's Republic of China was the top destination accounting for 14% of total overseas investments followed by Malaysia (10%) Hong Kong (9%) Indonesia (8%) and US (4%) The rapidly growing economy of India especially the high technology sector is becoming an expanding source of foreign investment for Singapore The United States provides no bilateral aid to Singapore but the US appears keen to improve bilateral trade and signed the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Singapore corporate tax is 17 per cent, Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill. On 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and was promoted commodore! . References Singaporeans also enjoy a wide variety of seafood including fish squid (known as sotong in Malay) stingray crab lobster clams and oysters, Main article: Klaipeda Region. Much of the content of the Tetrabiblos was collected from earlier sources; Ptolemy's achievement was to order his material in a systematic way showing how the subject could in his view be rationalized It is indeed presented as the second part of the study of astronomy of which the Almagest was the first concerned with the influences of the celestial bodies in the sublunary sphere Thus explanations of a sort are provided for the astrological effects of the planets based upon their combined effects of heating cooling moistening and drying, This custom also occurs in other Westminster Systems in the world in consequence from the influence of British colonial rule In Commonwealth realms such as Canada Australia and New Zealand the Prime Minister is obligated to seek permission from the Governor-General when implementing executive decisions in a manner similar to the British practice An analogous scenario also exists in Commonwealth republics such as India or Trinidad and Tobago where there is a President though not in Israel or Japan where the respective prime ministers have the full legal power to implement executive decisions and presidential (in Israel) or imperial (in Japan) approval is not required; On 15 June 2007 Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc announced that it had acquired a 4.99% stake in SGX. Since then the value of the shares has declined and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc has made a decision to sell the shares it holds in SGX to its parent company the Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc.