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Singapore, Singapore
I'm in Singapore! yahoo!
For more info: http://www.travel-singapore.com/history.htm
Singapore, Singapore
I'm in Singapore! yahoo!
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| more of singapore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Singapore |
During World War II, Singapore was conquered and occupied by the Japanese Empire from 1942 to 1945. When the war ended, Singapore reverted to British control, with increasing levels of self-government being granted, culminating in Singapore's merger with the Federation of Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963. However, social unrest and disputes between Singapore's ruling People's Action Party and Malaysia's Alliance Party resulted in Singapore's separation from Malaysia. Singapore became an independent republic on 9 August 1965.
Facing severe unemployment and a housing crisis, Singapore embarked on a modernisation programme that focused on establishing a manufacturing industry, developing large public housing estates and investing heavily on public education.
Facing severe unemployment and a housing crisis, Singapore embarked on a modernisation programme that focused on establishing a manufacturing industry, developing large public housing estates and investing heavily on public education.
Singapore's modern history commenced from 1819 at the arrival of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, a British East India Company officer, who found Singapore as a "British Trading Post". On 6 February 1819, Raffles signed a formal treaty to guarantee Singapore as a British trading post with Sultan Hussein of Johor and the Temenggong, two governors of the island at that time. There were hundreds of human skulls lying around the jungles. Those skulls might belong to Siamese and Javanese forces. Anyway, there were groups of Malay, and Chinese already living there. All seemed well only shortly when the Dutch forces exposed their anger toward Raffles' defiant action as he moved to settle in Singapore as a threat to obstruct Dutch sovereignty in the Dutch East Indies. Between 1819 and 1824, Raffles had pushed Singapore up so high beyond the prospects of Raffles himself, Hastings, and anyone else in the British East Indies Company with its trade surpassed that of Penang.
Before 1824, the Dutch administrators signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of March 1824 with the British authority which conceded the power upon Singapore in exchange for Dutch acquirement of the British outpost at Bencoolen. And so in 1824, Singapore's status under the British possession was divided into 2 new treaties. The first one was the Dutch treaty agreed to British occupation of Singapore in March 1824, while the second treaty was made with Temenggong and Sultan Hussein in August, which Singapore sold out right to the British for better financial status and pensions.
Before 1824, the Dutch administrators signed the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of March 1824 with the British authority which conceded the power upon Singapore in exchange for Dutch acquirement of the British outpost at Bencoolen. And so in 1824, Singapore's status under the British possession was divided into 2 new treaties. The first one was the Dutch treaty agreed to British occupation of Singapore in March 1824, while the second treaty was made with Temenggong and Sultan Hussein in August, which Singapore sold out right to the British for better financial status and pensions.
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