Credit quality; Jurong Port's facilities are as follows: 1.9% 11.5 Sports and recreation The different types of policy are also called monetary regimes in parallel to exchange-rate regimes A fixed exchange rate is also an exchange-rate regime; the gold standard results in a relatively fixed regime towards the currency of other countries on the gold standard and a floating regime towards those that are not Targeting inflation the price level or other monetary aggregates implies floating the exchange rate unless the management of the relevant foreign currencies is tracking exactly the same variables (such as a harmonized consumer price index)! The Westminster system has a very distinct appearance when functioning with many British customs incorporated into day-to-day government function A Westminster-style parliament is usually a long rectangular room with two rows of seats and desks on either side and in some countries with a perpendicular row of seats and desks at the furthermost point from the Speaker's Chair at the opposite end of the chamber In the Australian Parliament in both the Upper House (Senate) and the Lower House (House of Representatives) the rows of chairs and desks are rounded at the end opposite to the Speaker's Chair This area in which the rows are rounded at one end of the chamber is usually where the independent parties and minor parties are situated The chairs in which both the government and opposition sit are positioned so that the two rows are facing each other This arrangement is said to have derived from an early Parliament which was held in a church choir Traditionally the opposition parties will sit in one row of seats and the government party will sit in the other Of course sometimes a majority government is so large that it must use the "opposition" seats as well In the lower house at Westminster (the House of Commons) there are lines on the floor in front of the government and opposition benches that members may cross only when exiting the chamber It is often rumoured that the distance between the lines is that of the length of two swords although no documentary evidence exists to support this and in fact weapons have never been allowed in the Palace of Westminster at any time, Singapore is ranked first globally in 2005 in terms of containerised traffic with 23.2 million Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) handled High growth in containerised traffic has seen the port overtaking Hong Kong since the first quarter of 2005 and has led the race ever since with an estimated 19,335 kTEUs handled in the year up to October compared to 18,640 kTEUs handled in Hong Kong in the same period A rise in regional traffic consolidating the port's position in Southeast Asia and increases in transshipment traffic using the strategic East Asia-Europe route via Singapore helped the port to emerge tops at the end of the year a title it had not held since overtaking Hong Kong once in 1998. See also: Cloud and Precipitation The first phase of the DTSS consists of a 48-km long deep tunnel sewer that runs 20 to 55 metres below ground and channels used water to the Changi Water Reclamation Plant at the Eastern end of the island The plant had an initial capacity of 176 million imperial gallons (800,000 m3) per day Most of the treated used water is discharged into the sea through an outfall while some of it is further purified into NEWater The deep tunnel works entirely by gravity eliminating the need for pumping stations and thus the risks of used water overflows At one-third the size of conventional plants the Changi Water Reclamation Plant is designed to be compact Centralisation of used water treatment at Changi also allows for economies of scale In a second phase of the DTSS the deep tunnel system is to be expanded to the entire island with a second wastewater treatment plant at Tuas at the Western end of the island. Festivals The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum in the heart of Chinatown.

. Further information: Almagest, Exchange Rate The water pipeline from Malaysia shown here at the Johor-Woodlands causeway supplies 40% of Singapore's water supply, In 1956 the Tunku led a group of negotiators comprising Alliance politicians and representatives of the Malay rulers to London There they brokered a deal with the British for independence The date of independence was set as 31 August 1957 on the condition that an independent commission is set up to draft a constitution for the country The Alliance government was also required to avoid seizing British and other foreign assets in Malaya A defence treaty would also be signed!