Journal articles: 'Singapore history'

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Hui, Lim Mah, and Teoh Kit Fong. "Singapore Corporations Go Transnational." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 17, no. 2 (September 1986): 336–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400001090.

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The title of this paper is influenced by that of Lee Soo Ann's book, Singapore Goes Transnational. However, the subject matter of this paper though related, is quite different. By Singapore “going transnational”, Lee was referring to how Singapore's economy became dominated by foreign transnational corporations (TNCs). During that process and period, local Singaporean companies declined in importance. This paper deals with the resurgence of Singaporean companies to the extent that some have spread their operations to other countries and have attained the status of TNCs.

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Chan, Ying-kit. "Who, or What, is Lost: Singapore’s Impressions of Christmas Island, c. 1960–1990." MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 25, no. 1 (June 9, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-24030009.

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Abstract Although Singapore no longer governs Christmas Island, either on behalf of its British colonial administrators or for itself, some Singaporeans continue to regard it as a lost territory and have false impressions that it once belonged and should again belong to Singapore. By examining this complexity related to Christmas Island and its possible implications for Singapore’s national psyche, this paper surveys the newspapers of Singapore and oral history records of Singaporean ministers and officials for accounts of Christmas Island. It suggests that Singaporean newspapers’ portrayal of Christmas Island as a neglected Australian overseas territory contributed to some Singaporeans’ perception that Christmas Island might actually be better off with Singapore; others even had a misconception of Christmas Island as a lost territory. Such opinions have never really dissipated because the government has never publicly clarified the transfer of Christmas Island and rejected claims about its “sale” to Australia.

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[李明晏], Lee Ming-yen. "Performing the South Seas: Singapore Chinese Orchestra and the Making of Nanyang-Style Music." ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 9 (June 27, 2022): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/aemr.9-2.

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Since the establishment of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra (Xinjiapo huayue tuan 新加坡華樂團) in 1997, it has attempted to develop its approach to Chinese music differently from other international counterparts. Gradually, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra developed and performed Chinese music, reflecting Singapore’s diverse cultures and identities by incorporating non-Chinese music elements from Singapore and Southeast Asia. This article examines the “Nanyang-style music” (Nanyang feng huayue 南洋風華樂) of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. It draws on Tu Wei-Ming’s (1991) concept of ‘Cultural China’ and builds on Brian Bernards’ (2015) work on the ‘Nanyang’ in Chinese and Southeast Asian literature to consider the creation and performance of new forms of modern Chinese orchestral music. I argue that the Singapore Chinese Orchestra’s Nanyang-style music, which has its roots in modern Chinese orchestral music, is created and performed to present the cultural hybridity of the Chinese in Singapore society. This article shows that the Nanyang-style music is performed in two ways, namely, Chinese music combining Nanyang elements and Chinese music presenting a Singaporean identity.

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Roschupkina, Elena. "History of Singapore’s Economic Miracle." Journal of Economic History and History of Economics 24, no. 2 (July 10, 2023): 327–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).327-348.

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The article reviews the monograph "Singapore: Economic History" by Mariya G. Osipova, research fellow of the Centre for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The author has managed to show consistently, step by step, the economic development of Singapore during two centuries, disclose both objective and subjective circumstances that led to the transformation of Singapore from a British colony into an innovative and financial hub of the world. At the same time, M.G. Osipova can be called a pioneer in the study of Singapore's economic development in the post-Soviet academic space. It is noted that the value of the monograph is not only to disclose the mechanism of rapid economic growth of Singapore in a short historical period, but also to conclude that the main secret of its "economic miracle" is the creation of a unique national economic model, based on the careful consideration of specific historical conditions of development of Singapore society, its national, religious and cultural characteristics.

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FIGUEROA, ALEX, MARTYN E. Y. LOW, and KELVIN K. P. LIM. "Singapore’s herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution." Zootaxa 5287, no. 1 (May 18, 2023): 1–378. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1.

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Given Singapore’s location at the confluence of important maritime trading routes, and that it was established as a British East India Company trading post in 1819, it is unsurprising that Singapore has become one of the centres of natural history collecting and research in Southeast Asia. Despite its small size, Singapore is home to a diverse herpetofauna assemblage and boasts a rich herpetological history. The first systematic studies of Singapore’s herpetofauna (within the Linnaean binomial framework) date back to Stamford Raffles and the naturalists hired by him who first came to the island in 1819. Specimens that were collected during and after this time were deposited in museums worldwide. Over time, 39 species from Singapore were described as new to science. Due to the entrepôt nature of Singapore with its associated purchasing and trading of specimens (both alive and dead), poor record-keeping, and human introductions, numerous extraneous species from outside of Singapore were reported to occur on the island. Such issues have left a complicated legacy of ambiguous records and taxonomic complications concerning the identity of Singapore’s species-rich herpetofauna, many of which were only resolved in the past 30–40 years. By compiling a comprehensive collection of records and publications relating to the herpetofauna of Singapore, we construct an updated and more accurate listing of the herpetofauna of Singapore. Our investigation culminated in the evaluation of 309 species, in which we compiled a final species checklist recognising 166 species (149 native and 17 non-native established species). Among the 149 native species are two caecilians, 24 frogs, one crocodilian, 13 turtles (three visitors), 34 lizards, and 75 snakes. Of the 17 non-native species are five frogs, four turtles, six lizards, and two snakes. The remaining 143 species represent species to be excluded from Singapore’s herpetofauna species checklist. For each of the 309 species examined, we provide species accounts and explanatory annotations. Furthermore, we discuss Singapore’s herpetofauna from a historical and conservation perspective. Immediate deforestation and nationwide urbanisation following colonisation completely eliminated many species from throughout much of the country and restricted them to small, degraded forest patches. We hope this publication highlights the importance of publishing observations and serves as a valuable resource to future researchers, naturalists, biological consultants, and policy makers in initiating studies on species ecology, distribution, status, and promoting conservation efforts to safeguard Singapore’s herpetofauna.

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McCANN, GERARD. "Sikhs and the City: Sikh history and diasporic practice in Singapore." Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 6 (March 4, 2011): 1465–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x11000138.

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AbstractThe historiography of South Asian diaspora in colonial Southeast Asia has overwhelmingly focused on numerically dominant South Indian labourers at the expense of the small, but important, North Indian communities, of which the Sikhs were the most visually conspicuous and politically important. This paper will analyse the creation of various Sikh communities in one critical territory in British Asia—Singapore, and chart the development of the island's increasingly unified Sikh community into the post-colonial period. The paper will scrutinize colonial economic roles and socio-cultural formation, whilst links of Singaporean Sikhs to Punjab and their place within the post-colonial Singaporean state will preoccupy the latter portion of the paper. It will argue that more complicated notions of division relative to the social norms of Punjab must be acknowledged in this region of Sikh diaspora and indeed others. The final sections will assess the remarkable success of local Sikhs in utilizing statist policies of ‘domesticating difference’ towards altered ‘community’ ends. Such attachment to the state and the discursive parity of Singapore's Sikhs with official values, moreover, stymied the appeal of transnational Sikh militant movements that gained momentum in the West in the 1980s. The result has been the assertion of ‘model minority’ status for Singapore's Sikhs and notably successful socialization into Singaporean society.

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Teo, Peter, and Cui Ruiguo. "Imag(in)ing the Nation." Journal of Language and Politics 14, no. 5 (December 31, 2015): 645–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.5.02teo.

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This article focuses on the discursive construction of national identity through a National Day Rally speech delivered by Singapore’s Prime Minister in 2010. Inspired by the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis and using methods developed by Halliday and van Leeuwen, it offers a close analysis of the speech, which uncovers patterns related to the type, extent and effects of various agentive roles attributed to the country, government and people of Singapore. Macro-discursive strategies like the use of specific references and real-life anecdotes calculated to reify the success of the Singapore ‘brand’ and inspire Singaporeans are also discussed. Through this multi-layered analysis, the article demonstrates how discourse transforms an imagining of Singapore’s nationhood into a concrete image of what Singapore is and what being a Singaporean is all about.

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Lee, Cher Leng, and Chiew Pheng Phua. "Singapore bilingual education." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30, no. 1-2 (June 30, 2020): 90–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.00046.lee.

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Abstract Bilingualism has always been emphasized in Singapore’s education system. Since 1959, Singapore government leaders have repeatedly stressed that bilingualism is the cornerstone of Singapore’s language policy. Scholars researching language policy and planning in Singapore have also assumed that Singapore has always maintained a consistent stand on bilingualism. This paper cites the case of Chinese language (Mandarin) education as evidence to show how “bilingual” education has undergone significant changes in Singapore by tracing the historical changes and examining how bilingual education has evolved since its implementation. The findings show that the once-compulsory bilingual requirements gave way to differentiated ones in the history of Singapore’s bilingual policy. This finding will help researchers have a better understanding of Singapore’s “bilingual education” today and its position compared to other bilingual education systems in the world.

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Sai, Siew-Min. "Educating multicultural citizens: Colonial nationalism, imperial citizenship and education in late colonial Singapore." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 44, no. 1 (December 14, 2012): 49–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463412000616.

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This article recounts the unusual history of a national idea in late colonial Singapore from the 1930s to the early 1950s before Singapore's attainment of partial self-government in 1955. Using two different concepts, namely ‘colonial nationalism’ and ‘imperial citizenship’, it offers a genealogy of nationalism in Singapore, one that calls into question the applicability of prevailing theories of anti-colonial nationalism to the Singapore-in-Malaya context. Focusing on colonial nationalism, the article provides a historical account of English-mediated official multiculturalism through tracking shifting British colonial priorities, ideologies of governance and challenges to its authority in Singapore. This account is rarely appreciated in Singapore today given official scripting of national history that abets particular amnesias with regards to its multicultural nationhood.

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Fu, YiJia, and Jingjin Liu. "The Identity Dilemma of Chinese Immigrants in Singapore from the Perspective of Intercultural Communication and Identity Negotiation: A Case Study of the Chinese Language Movement of Singapore Chamber of Commerce." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 8, no. 1 (September 14, 2023): 346–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/8/20230206.

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This paper is based on the background of many Chinese immigrants to Singapore in recent years. Singapore is a multicultural country. The Chinese identity in Singapore is also influenced by multiple factors such as history and culture. This paper studies the causes and status quo of the identity dilemma of the Chinese in Singapore, which provides a reference for China's research in this field and promotes the development of China-Singapore relations. This study is based on the intercultural communication theory and the consultative identity theory, using case analysis to draw the conclusion that the current Singaporean Chinese are faced with a dilemma in the identity process, and put forward suggestions on this phenomenon: Singaporean Chinese should actively negotiate to carry out innovative development on the basis of protecting the fundamental development of identity culture. Understanding and helping Singaporean Chinese to form an identity and value system is conducive to promoting the positive development of China-Singapore relations under the background of globalization.

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CHIA, NGEE CHOON. "UNIQUELY SINGAPORE'S BUDGETARY SYSTEM AND SOCIAL PROTECTION FINANCING SCHEMES." Singapore Economic Review 59, no. 03 (June 2014): 1450024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590814500246.

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This paper examines Singapore's fiscal position and its unique way of financing targeted welfare programs. We examine how reserves are accumulated through fiscal discipline during times of phenomenal economic growth in Singapore and when Singapore was enjoying demographic dividend. The existence of the large accumulated reserves has resulted in particular features of the Singapore's budgetary process, such as fiscal rules, which govern the utilization of revenues from the reserves. Innovative budget implementation, such as Block Budgeting, has helped Singapore to ensure fiscal sustainability. The accumulation of reserves throughout its economic history has afforded Singapore a unique way to fund social protection through special transfers and funds, without having to raise taxes.

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Blackburn, Kevin. "Singapore: A Modern History." Australian Journal of Politics & History 65, no. 3 (September 2019): 500–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12608.

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Taylor, Robert H. "Singapore: A Modern History." Asian Affairs 50, no. 4 (August 8, 2019): 650–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2019.1662184.

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Quan, Seng Guo. "Singapore: A Modern History." Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 92, no. 2 (2019): 140–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ras.2019.0016.

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Rawlinson, John L. "A History of Singapore." History: Reviews of New Books 21, no. 4 (June 1993): 178–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1993.9948800.

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Guan, Ang Cheng. "Singapore and the Vietnam war." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, no. 2 (April 29, 2009): 353–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463409000186.

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This article attempts to fill two gaps in two sets of inter-related historiographies, that of the diplomatic history of Singapore and that of the Vietnam war. For a number of reasons, not much had been published about the foreign policy of Singapore from the historical perspective. The Southeast Asian dimension of the Vietnam war is also starkly missing from the voluminous literature on the war. This article thus tries to describe and explain Singapore's attitude towards the war as it evolved over the ten years — from 1965, when the war really began and which coincided with the year that Singapore became independent, to 1975, a period which overlaps with the first ten years of Singapore's independence. Hopefully, this study will provide an understanding of one aspect of Singapore's foreign policy in its first 10 years as well as offer one Southeast Asian perspective on the Vietnam war.

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Goh, Wei Hao. "Appropriating the Founder: Raffles and Modern Singapore." Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia 7, no. 1 (March 2023): 117–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.56159/sen.2023.a890222.

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Abstract: Since 2015, many prominent protest movements around the world have called for the removal of memorials commemorating colonisers, including the Rhodes Must Fall campaign which rallied for the removal of statues commemorating the British coloniser Cecil Rhodes who is known for being one of the architects of the apartheid in South Africa. Singapore, instead, held the Singapore Bicentennial in 2019 to commemorate 200 years since the 'founding' of modern Singapore by the British. One figure who was featured prominently in this act of national remembering is Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), commonly known as the 'founder' of modern Singapore. The government commissioned two works around the poly-marble statue of Raffles. This statue is a copy created by the post-independence government in 1972 that is based on the original bronze installed by the British in 1887. These statues have been appropriated by artists over the years as a critique of colonialism and the selective remembering of Singapore's colonial history by the government. Through a comparative analysis of the memorials of Raffles and the counter-memorials created by the artists, I examine how the statues are used by the long-time ruling party, the People's Action Party (PAP), to perpetuate their hegemonic version of Singapore's history and the norms coded within the statues. I also examine how the artists used the same image of Raffles to resist the collective amnesia cultivated by the state by revealing the selective remembering of and myth-making by the government, and foregrounding the subjectivities of individuals who were written out of Singapore's history.

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Arman, Dedi. "Sejarah Perdagangan Babi dari Pulau Bulan Batam ke Singapura, 1987-2023." Warisan: Journal of History and Cultural Heritage 4, no. 3 (December 24, 2023): 108–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.34007/warisan.v4i3.1977.

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This research delves into the pig trade history from Pulau Bulan, Batam, to Singapore spanning 1987 to 2023. In response to the 1984 policy eliminating domestic livestock farming, Singapore became reliant on imported meat. Employing a historical research method and drawing on literature reviews, the study identifies PT Indo Tirta Suaka's Pulau Bulan pig farm as Southeast Asia's largest and Singapore's primary live pig importer, initiating exports in 1987. Disruptions occurred, such as Singapore's cessation of pig supplies from Malaysia during Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreaks in Sarawak (1999-2017) and the Covid-19 pandemic. However, a significant setback unfolded with the detection of African Swine Fever (ASF) on April 19, 2023. Subsequent tests confirmed ASF in Pulau Bulan pig samples, prompting Singapore to officially halt pig supplies. This resulted in a substantial monthly and yearly loss of approximately IDR 3.5 billion and IDR 1.1 trillion, respectively, in pig exports from Pulau Bulan to Singapore.

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Dergachev, Vladimir. "Lee Kuan Yew. Father of Singapore's "economic miracle"." Вісник Книжкової палати, no. 10 (October 28, 2021): 22–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.36273/2076-9555.2021.10(303).22-25.

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Poole, Colin M., and Chris R. Shepherd. "Shades of grey: the legal trade in CITES-listed birds in Singapore, notably the globally threatened African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus." Oryx 51, no. 3 (April 13, 2016): 411–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605314000234.

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AbstractThere are few published studies quantifying the volume of wildlife being traded through Singapore. We report on Singapore's involvement in the trade of avifauna listed on CITES based on government-reported data to CITES, with particular emphasis on Singapore's role in the trade of the globally threatened African grey parrot Psittacus erithacus. During 2005–2014 Singapore reported commercial import permits for 225,561 birds, from 35 countries, listed on CITES Appendices I and II, and the export of 136,912 similarly listed birds to 37 countries, highlighting the country's role as a major international transshipment hub for the global aviculture industry. Major exporters to Singapore included the Solomon Islands, the Netherlands, Taiwan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Africa. Major importers from Singapore included Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates and Japan. Singapore imported significant quantities of CITES-listed birds from African countries, including the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea and South Africa, a number of which have a history of abuse of CITES export permits, discrepancies in reported trade data, or an acknowledged lack of wildlife law enforcement capacity. Significant discrepancies were detected between import and export figures of CITES-listed avifauna reported by Singapore and its trading partners. Based on these findings we present three recommendations to improve the regulation and monitoring of the trade in CITES-listed bird species in Singapore.

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Pratama, Fikri Surya, Erasiah Erasiah, Anggi Meydel Fitri, and Aletri Yelni. "A HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL REVIEW OF SINGAPORE'S POLICY TOWARDS THE MALAYS AND THE MUSLIMS." Journal of Religious Policy 2, no. 2 (December 11, 2023): 269–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.31330/repo.v2i2.36.

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When examining the condition of minorities around the world, we must pay attention to several factors such as their history, geopolitics, level of community development, patterns of integration, and the ideological style of the state in its policies. This journal article examines how Singapore's political policies towards the Malays and Muslims as minority groups. The research method used is the historical research method where data collection is done using literature review techniques. This research data analysis uses a political history approach to analyse Singapore's political policies in empowering religious communities in a secular state. The results show that Singapore has a vigilant and pragmatic attitude in making state policies in relation to Malay and Islam. This is due to its diverse demographics, its geopolitics flanked by Malaysia and Indonesia, and its past history of inter-ethnic conflict. In its development, the Singapore government has chosen the path of accommodation in making policies related to Muslims and Malays. Islam is realised as a benchmark for Singapore's domestic and foreign policies.

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Yamin, Johann, and Alex Mitchell. "Excavating Amnesia: A Media Archaeology of Early Internet Art from Singapore." Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia 7, no. 2 (October 2023): 47–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.56159/sen.2023.a916547.

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Abstract: The notion of ‘newness’ is a tenacious apparition possessing discourses of new media art. Artistic explorations engaged with technology in Singapore tend to be perceived in discontinuous fragments, imbuing such practices with an apparent ahistoricity. This essay seeks to disturb this amnesia beneath which Singapore new media art histories appear to rest. By drawing upon Jussi Parikka’s elucidation of media archaeology, two early instances of internet art by Singaporean artists will be analysed: Ocarina (1994), a digital art object housed within the virtual Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum, and the internet performance/installation presented at Documenta11, alpha 3.4 (2002), by collective tsunamii.net (artists Charles Lim Yi Yong, Woon Tien Wei, and scientist Melvin Phua). These works, bracketing the period of the mid-1990s to early-2000s, are examined in relation to existing discussions of internet art in art history, as well as discourses of technology inflected by Singapore’s attempts to build and consolidate internet infrastructures through masterplans and initiatives. This essay thus gestures towards the complications and contrivances in thinking about Singapore’s new media art as a discursive entity, which is interwoven with regional historiographies of art and technology, and a project intrinsically related to questions of modernity and contemporaneity.

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ALAGIRISAMY, DARINEE. "Toddy, Race, and Urban Space in Colonial Singapore, 1900–59." Modern Asian Studies 53, no. 05 (May 14, 2019): 1675–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x1700083x.

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AbstractBritish Malaya's toddy industry features in history as a problem that plagued the plantation economy, when the city toddy shop was no less important in contributing to a racialized discourse of modernity in Singapore. Although colonial policy served to engender the racialization of toddy drinking as a peculiarly Tamil vice, toddy's social life in Singapore demonstrates that it became the poor man's beer regardless of race. The alcoholic drink gave rise to new adaptations, enterprises, and innovations in colonial Singapore, thus carving out a unique place for itself in the city's cultural landscape. Yet, Singapore's toddy industry dominated the public spotlight for less palatable reasons, which rendered it the subject of numerous demands for increased government regulation. The colonial government responded with a slew of measures that often differed from the federation's toddy policy. Singapore's toddy industry yielded divergent imaginaries of modernity, particularly in the aftermath of the Second World War. Some reformers sought its abolition or relocation away from city spaces, whilst others demanded its modernization on the grounds that this meagre establishment was the labourer's sole source of recreation. In light of recent developments that have prompted the government's intervention in limiting migrant labourers’ access to alcohol, this article will examine the considerations that informed the colonial establishment's urban toddy policy and its corresponding impact on Singapore society as it sped towards decolonization. Through an exploration of toddy's treatment in the English-language press, oral histories, and colonial office records, this article seeks to contribute perspectives on an aspect of Singapore's social history that remains largely unexplored.

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Teo, David Choon Liang, Eugene Kin Mun Wuan, Dawn Sue-Fern Lee, Andre Teck Sng Tay, and Samuel Eng Teck Cheng. "Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Singapore." Psychodynamic Psychiatry 50, no. 3 (September 2022): 453–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2022.50.3.453.

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The authors provide an overview of the history of psychiatric services and training in Singapore, and the more recent introduction of psychodynamic psychotherapy training for psychiatric residents. They describe the current state of psychodynamic psychiatry services in the public healthcare system, including efforts at fostering psychodynamic thinking in nonpsychiatric community partners via community mental health integrated care programs and activities such as Balint Groups. They discuss current challenges in psychodynamic practice, such as the impact of language and culture on the Singaporean individual's receptiveness to psychodynamic psychotherapy, as well as systemic challenges in funding and expanding psychodynamic services. They highlight future directions, including challenges and opportunities for the local psychodynamic community in Singapore.

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Tan, Kevin YL, and Matthias Roßbach. "State Answers to Religious Diversity in Germany and Singapore: History, Philosophy and Strategy." German Law Journal 20, no. 7 (October 2019): 949–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/glj.2019.79.

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AbstractThis Article focuses on the extent to which the different legal approaches of Germany and Singapore to religious diversity were shaped by history. It first analyzes the development in Germany and describes four phases of the development of the law on the relationship between church and state. Starting with the consequences of reformation, it shows that—for centuries—the relationship between denominations had been the crucial matter of this body of law. Only later, the law dealt with conflicts between religion and atheism. This Article then presents the fundamental rights approach of the Basic Law and examines it against the backdrop of the historical development and recent challenges. Second, this Article offers a historical account of Singapore’s attempts at regulating and managing religious diversity. It starts with the establishment of a British trading post on the island in 1819 and runs up to the present day. As a result of mass migration in its early years, Singapore was to become, in the twentieth century, one of the most religiously and culturally diverse nations in the world. This Article shows that Singapore has sought to regulate and manage the various religious groups through a combination of legislation and state policy.

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G., E., and C. M. Turnbull. "A History of Singapore, 1819-1988." Journal of the American Oriental Society 112, no. 1 (January 1992): 177. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/604650.

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BALL, S. J. "Selkirk in Singapore." Twentieth Century British History 10, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 162–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/10.2.162.

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Jianli, Huang, and Hong Lysa. "History and the Imaginaries of ‘Big Singapore’: Positioning the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 35, no. 1 (February 2004): 65–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463404000049.

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The establishment of the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall marks the PAP government's charting of a revolutionary, modernising genealogy of seismic proportions for the fashioning of a ‘Big Singapore’ as the political, economic and cultural focus of the Chinese diaspora. Such effort in reorienting history is problematic and the ethnicisation of national identity is contested, not least by Singapore's Chinese-language intellectuals.

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Blackburn, Kevin. "The role of State Shinto and sport in integrating Singapore into the Japanese Empire, 1942–45." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 54, no. 4 (December 2023): 645–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463423000668.

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During the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, military and civilian officials governing Singapore used a combination of State Shinto and sport to assist in culturally assimilating Singapore into Japan's Empire. A planned massive sports complex was to be located at Singapore's own State Shinto shrine, the Syonan Jinja, which was partly modelled on Japan's Meiji Shrine which regularly held on its own grounds sports events and games that mixed the rituals of State Shinto with athleticism. Participation in sport was used to assimilate local populations into an imperial identity, united under the helm of the Japanese Emperor.

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Ertanto, Boy. "Contested Spaces: Entanglement of Chinese Migration, Gender Discrimination, and Colonial Resistance in Olivia Ho’s “Working Woman”." Journal of Language and Literature 22, no. 1 (March 23, 2022): 125–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v22i1.3742.

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Southeast Asian colonial experiences are of immense significance yet under-exposed. It entails an irony as Southeast Asia as a geographical entity is one of the most colonized regions in the history of humankind. This paper serves to provide an elaboration of the Chinese Singaporean colonial experiences during the British occupation in Singapore in a steampunk short story entitled “Working Woman” by Olivia Ho. This short story is compiled in an anthology of Southeast Asian steampunk short stories named The Sea is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia edited by Jaymee Goh and Joyce Chng. Postcolonial feminism approach is utilized as the critical framework in the analysis of the story. The analysis finds that there are three contesting themes in the narrative namely 1) the reception of forced migration of the Chinese that result in their permanent residence in Singapore, 2) double colonization undergone by the Chinese female characters, and 3) the resistance toward British colonial power and patriarchal subjugation in the Singaporean Chinese society. The three themes intermingle as a linear course of history rather than an independent sub-historical phenomenon within the fiction. Thus, the reception of Chinese migration in the fiction is made possible by the arrival of British colonialism in Singapore and as a result, discrimination and resistance of Chinese women become the implication of the contact of colonialism and migration.

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Kadir, Suzaina. "Uniquely Singapore: The Management of Islam in a Small Island Republic." ICR Journal 2, no. 1 (October 15, 2010): 156–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.52282/icr.v2i1.686.

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This article explores the dynamics of Singapore’s administration and management of its minority Muslim population. Singapore has developed a reputation of being highly interventionist in all aspects of its citizens’ lives, including the private domain. Not surprisingly, there is a slew of legislation governing the religious beliefs and practices of its citizens, aimed primarily at maintaining religious and racial harmony. Islam and the Muslim minority, it can be argued, have been at the receiving end of tighter state management as compared to the other religious communities. This article traces the evolution of the state’s administration of Islam in Singapore and explores the historical and contemporary reasoning behind such careful management of its Muslim citizens. It lays out the evolution of a Singapore model of accommodating and administering a religious/Muslim minority, and questions the sustainability and exportability of such a governance model.

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Heng, Derek. "Regional influences, economic adaptation and cultural articulation: Diversity and cosmopolitanism in fourteenth-century Singapore." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 50, no. 4 (December 2019): 476–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463420000016.

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Studies on the international history of fourteenth-century Singapore have been hitherto limited to external trade conducted by local inhabitants, and material consumption patterns that this trade enabled them to develop. Broader regional cultural influences have been postulated though not clearly demonstrated, given scant textual records and limited material culture remains. This article seeks to examine the external influences, adaptation and assimilation in the production and consumption of fourteenth-century Singapore. In particular, it looks at three aspects of Singapore's pre-colonial existence — modes of economic production, patterns of consumption of international products, and the articulation of high culture vis-à-vis external entities. By examining available archaeological, epigraphic, art historical and cartographic data from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries, this article postulates how distinct consumption patterns may have developed among different riverside populations living north of the Singapore River. This study also questions the common view that Singapore developed as a cosmopolitan port-city only after the advent of British colonialism, demonstrating that its diversity and openness was likely a feature centuries before.

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Yeo, Wan Ting, and Ruanni Tupas. "Semiotic engineering in Singapore." Journal of Language and Politics 17, no. 1 (November 3, 2017): 46–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.16029.yeo.

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Abstract National campaigns are an extension of governance that aim to subliminally (re)align a society to a country’s nation-building objectives or ideals. They are carefully curated government projects that are heavily invested in the dissemination and reinforcement of nation-building ideologies. This paper has focused its research on the National Courtesy Campaign, which was launched at a time when the ‘Asian values’ discourse dominated much of Singapore’s statal narratives. Although not overtly marketed as part of the ‘Asianizing’ Singapore movement, posters of the National Courtesy Campaign were found to be sites in which ideologies that informed the ‘Asianizing’ Singapore movement were reproduced. This paper explores the micro-communication strategies employed for the dissemination of these nation-building ideologies.

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WILSON, PETER. "MONETARY POLICY AND FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT." Singapore Economic Review 60, no. 03 (August 2015): 1550031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0217590815500319.

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This paper reviews Singapore's monetary policy and financial development since independence, including the immediate challenges in the 1960s, the turbulent years of the 1970s with the collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system and the global oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, the introduction of a unique exchange rate-centered monetary policy in 1981, the Asian financial crisis of 1997–1998 and the global financial crisis of 2007–2009. Despite being a late starter (1971) and given a number of obstacles, not least the high degree of openness of the Singapore economy to trade and capital flows, the Monetary Authority of Singapore has built up a high degree of credibility within a relatively short space of time and delivered low and stable inflation. Although financial development has been "government made" rather than market-driven, proactive and sensible policies have built on Singapore's long history as a regional trading hub to turn Singapore into a premier financial center in terms of foreign exchange trading, offshore money market intermediation and asset management. Nonetheless, some challenges remain: How monetary policy can deal with asset price bubbles and deflationary pressures and steer a careful course to maintain price stability without jeopardizing Singapore's transitory restructuring process to achieve sustainable economic growth.

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Yuan, Yilin. "Harmony in Motion: Sustainable Cultural Tourism and the Water Narrative along the Singapore River." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 43, no. 1 (March 14, 2024): 124–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/43/20240673.

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The Singapore River precinct, beyond its role in promoting economic development as a tourist area, holds a more significant and enduring significance in establishing Singapore's national cultural image externally and deepening domestic cultural identity internally. This paper scrutinizes the sustainable development of cultural tourism along the Singapore River, with a particular emphasis on the construction of a water narrative. The study delves into the role of public art installations in showcasing Singapore's achievements in water resource management. By intertwining art with the city's unique cultural background and commitment to environmental sustainability, these installations not only enhance Singapore's global reputation but also stimulate public awareness. The narrative emphasizes Singapore's history of achieving water independence, shaping a distinctive cultural background that attracts tourists. While recognizing the effectiveness of public art, the paper calls for further examination of its potential to inspire environmental concern and the need to balance historical accuracy in shaping Singapore's image. This research provides valuable insights into the dynamic relationship between public art, cultural representation, and sustainable tourism development.

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Farrell, Brian P. "Singapore: unlikely power." Journal for Maritime Research 20, no. 1-2 (July 3, 2018): 124–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21533369.2018.1514752.

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Lopes, Octávio. "The roots of Singapore’s pragmatic foreign policy." Cadernos de Política Exterior 3, no. 6 (December 1, 2017): 381–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.61623/cpe.v3n6.a12.

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This article identifies the roots of Singapore’s pragmatic foreign policy in the country’s pre ‑independence history. From 1819 to 1965, a specific set of events determined the way that the population now perceives the position of the island in the world. Security and the international economic policies are at the core of Singapore’s pragmatism and will be the main focus of this paper. Keywords: Singapore; pragmatism; foreign policy; security; international economic policy

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Bernards, Brian. "Iridescent Corners." Prism 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2022): 374–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-9966697.

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Abstract Starting in the 1970s, flash fiction developed into an outsized literary practice relative to other Sinophone forms in Singapore. Flash fiction's smallness and brevity cohere with the fast pace of urban Singaporean life and transformation of its cityscape, the compartmentalized relationship between the nation's four official languages, the marginality of literary spaces and challenges to maintaining literature as a profession, and Southeast Asia's relative obscurity as a world literary center (with Singapore as a small but important connective hub). Taking Yeng Pway Ngon's fleeting scene of Speakers' Corner (a flash platform of “gestural politics”) as a point of departure, this article charts a short history of Sinophone flash and its relationship to literary community building in Singapore through integrative readings of representative works by Jun Yinglü, Ai Yu, Wong Meng Voon, Xi Ni Er, and Wu Yeow Chong, recognizing their formal and thematic intersections not as “big ideas in tiny spaces” but as iridescent corners that traverse the state's cultural, political, and geographical out-of-bounds (OB) markers. Rather than privileging professional mastery, their works trace flash fiction's iridescent literariness and worldliness to hyperlocality (the physical and literary “corners” they illuminate), compressed temporality, a participatory culture of authorship, and a spirit of amateurism. This amateurism is derived not from a sense of linguistic underdevelopment or technical lack among these authors, but from their passionate and vulnerable engagement with the flash form, as well as the dissident moral conscience of their thematically and stylistically intersecting critiques of Singapore's sociopolitical OB markers.

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Tong, Goh Chok. "Social Values, Singapore Style." Current History 93, no. 587 (December 1, 1994): 417–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.587.417.

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Helmiati. "Friday Sermons in Singapore: The Voice of Authorities toward Building State-Centric Muslim Identity." Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization 12, no. 2 (November 11, 2022): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/jitc.122.04.

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This article examines to what extent Friday sermons are used by the government of Singapore through its statutory board, Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS) or Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, to enact government policies and communicate it’s approved Islamic interpretations. A content analysis methodology was employed to discursively elucidate Friday sermon texts delivered in 2019 in Singapore, which were all taken from MUIS websites. Findings showed that the religious authority modulated religious discourses and utilized the Friday sermons as an avenue of forging state-centric Muslim identity and modulating interpretations of Islam. This content analysis study stresses the importance of how Friday sermons could be used to construct Muslim identity in secular state policies and shape a socio-political harmony between state vision and development and Muslim minorities. This paper implies that the current entanglements of religion and development are closely intertwined in which religion and state-building initiatives led by the government reciprocally interact and mutually benefit. Keywords: Authority, Friday Sermon, Islam, Muslim Identity, Singapore

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Ng, B. Y., and K. T. Chee. "A brief history of psychiatry in Singapore." International Review of Psychiatry 18, no. 4 (January 2006): 355–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540260600775355.

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GOH, CHEE-LEOK. "HISTORY OF DERMATOLOGY AND VENEREOLOGY IN SINGAPORE." International Journal of Dermatology 32, no. 8 (August 1993): 613–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-4362.1993.tb05045.x.

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Brunero, Donna. "Visiting the ‘Liverpool of the East’: Singapore's place in tours of Empire." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 50, no. 4 (December 2019): 562–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463420000065.

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This article explores the idea of Singapore's repute as the ‘Liverpool of the East’ and the depictions of Britain's maritime empire in Asia. It does so via two important cruises related to the British Empire. The first is the Royal Tour of 1901 and the second cruise was the Empire Cruise of 1923 to 1924. By examining the reception afforded to both royal and naval visitors, this article argues that we have insights into what it meant for Singapore as a port city in a British maritime and imperial network. This article explores how Singapore was depicted as a maritime hub through these tours and concludes with a reflection that similar descriptions still hold a place in modern descriptions of Singapore.

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Teo, Cuthbert ES. "A Brief History of Pathology and the Chapter of Pathologists." Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 36, no. 7 (July 15, 2007): 565–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v36n7p565.

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Pathology was the first specialty practiced in Singapore, and celebrated its centenary 2 years ago. A brief history of the discipline and the Chapter of Pathologists are presented here. Significant milestones especially inaugural events are recounted. Key words: Biochemistry, Forensic pathology, Histopathology, History, Inaugural events, Microbiology, Pathology, Chapter of Pathologists, Singapore

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Lee, Jack Tsen-Ta. "A Presence of the Past: The Legal Protection of Singapore's Archaeological Heritage." International Journal of Cultural Property 20, no. 3 (August 2013): 257–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s094073911300012x.

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AbstractSingapore is not well known for its archaeological heritage. In fact, chance finds in the early twentieth century and systematic archaeological excavations since the 1980s conducted at sites around the Singapore River have unearthed artifacts shedding light on the island's early history. In addition, the value of archaeology for a deeper knowledge of Singapore's British colonial past is increasingly being recognized. Nonetheless, Singapore law provides only a rudimentary framework to facilitate archaeological investigations and protect cultural artifacts. This article considers how the National Heritage Board Act (Cap. 196A, 1994 Rev. Ed.), the Planning Act (Cap. 232, 1998 Rev. Ed.), and the recent Preservation of Monuments Board Act 2009 (No. 16 of 2009, now Cap. 239, 2011 Rev. Ed.) may be strengthened in this regard.

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Koh, David, and Hin-Peng Lee. "A History of the Chapter of Public Health and Occupational Physicians." Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 36, no. 7 (July 15, 2007): 581–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v36n7p581.

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The Chapter of Public Health and Occupational Physicians was formed in 1980, 23 years after the founding of the Academy of Medicine in Singapore. From a modest beginning with 12 foundation Fellows, the Chapter has provided professional leadership and continuing education in public health and occupational medicine. It has organised numerous talks, conferences, seminars and symposia, and a very successful series of annual scientific meetings. The content of these activities reflect the concerns and developments of public health and occupational medicine in Singapore throughout the last quarter century. Fellows of the Chapter serve on national specialist training committees and on academic programme committees of both specialities. The Chapter also provides recommendations to the Academy on specialist qualification and training. With an active current membership of 100 Fellows, which is still growing, the Chapter is poised to further raise the professional standards and practice of public health and occupational medicine in Singapore. Key words: Academy of Medicine Singapore, Occupational Medicine, Public Health

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Bunglai, Djunaidi. "Sistem Pendidikan dan Pendidikan Sejarah di Singapura Sebagai Refleksi bagi Pengembangan Kurikulum di Indonesia." Jurnal Pendidikan Sejarah 4, no. 1 (August 18, 2017): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/jps.041.03.

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This paper examines the history of the education system and education in Singapore to reflect forcurriculum development in Indonesia. The results show, that the education system in Singaporeand Indonesia are relatively not much difference. The differences even in consistency and consequentof both countries in implementing it. The Ministry of Education of Singapore is very consistent andconsequently, the opposite occurs in Indonesia.The consistency of government and the consequences ofit has been a factor of excellence in the education system of Singapore. The next finding , development ofeducational curriculum in high school history in Singapore prepared with a very broad scope , holistic andphilosophical orientation, global competition based on perennialism, humanism , and reconstrucionism,so that they can participate to realize the advantages of education in Singapore.

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Trocki, Carl A. "The Rise of Singapore's Great Opium Syndicate, 1840–86." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18, no. 1 (March 1987): 58–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400001259.

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This study aims to reconstruct a neglected chapter in the history of the Singapore Chinese. The opium farm, which was the monopoly for the manufacture and sale of chandu, or smokeable opium, was one of the primary Chinese-dominated economic institutions of nineteenth-century Singapore. A study of the farm provides the historian with an institutional focus which can increase our understanding of the history of the Chinese community in Singapore during its formative years.

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Jusoh, Wan F. A., Marcus A. H. Chua, Piet A. J. Bakker, Pepijn Kamminga, Danièle Weiler, Kees Rookmaaker, and Martyn E. Y. Low. "A historical specimen of the Fishing Cat, Prionailurus viverrinus (Bennett, 1833) (Carnivora, Felidae) from Singapore in the zoological collection of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden." Zoosystematics and Evolution 98, no. 1 (January 21, 2022): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.98.76940.

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The Fishing Cat is not a species known to inhabit Singapore. However, a historical specimen stated to have come from Singapore in 1819 and attributed to Pierre-Médard Diard (RMNH.MAM.59688) is now housed at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. Two hundred years after it was obtained, the mounted skin and skull of this specimen, including specimen labels, were photographed and digitally catalogued. Four sets of annotations from labels and a document detailing records and a receipt of specimens sent by Diard to Leiden are presented to ascertain the specimen’s identity, followed by a historical account of Diard based on a reconstruction of the timeline of key events of Singapore’s natural history. Subsequently, the specimen is examined to confirm its taxonomic identity using comparative morphometrics with other museum specimens, and data associated with the specimen are analysed to determine the origins of this specimen. We conclude that the current evidence does not allow confirmation of the specimen’s status as having been collected in Singapore or being obtained from the pet trade. If the specimen was an imported specimen, it would point towards a trade in rare and large animals in Singapore and the region from as early as 1819. Presently, the specimen remains one of the few extant zoological specimens obtained in Singapore in 1819 and the only one currently known outside of England.

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Helmiati, Helmiati. "Muslim Religiosity in a Challenging Secular State of Singapore." QIJIS (Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies) 9, no. 2 (December 26, 2021): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/qijis.v9i2.8026.

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<p>This article aims to examine the religiosity of Muslim minority living in a Singapore secular state. This survey research draws on Stark and Glock‘s model of multidimensional religiosity while accommodating specific characteristics of Islamic piety in framing the religiosity. From 482 Singaporean Muslims participated in this survey, this study found that the majority of Singaporean Muslims are quite religious. The finding indicates that religion is a core of their identity and a significant component of their life in spite of living in a secular state. This study argues that Muslim’s religious commitment can coexist within a secular framework due to Singapore secularism’s unique nature. Similarly, it also asserts that Singaporean Muslims negotiate a prudent balance between their civil responsibilities as Singaporeans and their religious obligations as Muslims. This study implies that secularism is multifaceted in relation to different cultural, political milieus, and different religions. Thus, secularism should not always be crudely viewed as categorical resistance against religion.</p>

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