Singapore

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Every war would produce a hero and every country, a patriot, whose deeds would stand the test of time. It was sixty one years ago this month, in the dark years of the Japanese Occupation in Malaya, that such a person emerged. That hero was Lim Bo Seng.

Lim Bo Seng, despite his privileged background and success as a businessman, was staunchly anti-Japanese even before the war came to Malaya. An active contributor of the China Relief Fund, he was later the Director of the Labour Service Department in the newly formed Singapore Chinese Mobilisation Council. Certain to be a target of reprisals for the Japanese, he was compelled to flee Singapore just before it capitulated. He managed to reach Sumatra where he then made his way to Colombo and finally to Calcutta in India. There, he met a British officer, Basil Goodfellow, who persuaded him to join the British efforts in setting up a joint China-Britain espionage network in Malaya. He then proceeded on to Nationalist China to recruit overseas Malayan Chinese for this task. This resistance network came to be known as Force 136.

He was held in high regard by the British and other members of Force 136 for his patriotism, leadership and organisational abilities. After receiving training from the British in India, the men of Force 136 were inserted into Malaya via submarine in batches. Appointed leader of the Malayan Chinese section, he personally arrived in Malaya in November 1943 to co-ordinate the efforts. He was one of the five signatories in the Bukit Bidor Agreement signed on 1st Jan 1944 where the British and the Malayan Communist Party agreed to work together and support each other against the Japanese.

Tragedy was to strike when he was stopped at a checkpoint at Gopeng and arrested. He had earlier ignored warnings and pleas from his comrades about the danger of his mission, which was to revamp the entire intelligence network and solicit funds from his wealthy friends. Brought to Batu Gajah Prison, he was subjected to continuous interrogations and torture by the infamous Kempeitai. Lim Bo Seng was already weak in health, having just gone for a haemorrhoids operation in India before arriving in Malaya. To make matters worse, he suffered from dysentery. Finally, on 29th June 1944, he succumbed under the immense suffering and passed away.

Following the surrender of the Japanese in Malaya in September 1945, the accolades for Lim Bo Seng began to flow in. The Nationalist Government in China accorded to him a posthumous rank of Major-General and a grand funeral procession was held on 13th January 1946. His grave is situated at MacRitchie Reservoir. On the 10th Anniversary of his death, in 1954, a memorial was unveiled at the Esplanade to commemorate him.

Lim Bo Seng attained everlasting fame not only because he gave up everything, including his life, to fight against an enemy he deemed to be tyrannical and cruel but also because of his steadfast refusal under pain and torture to reveal the information which would endanger the lives of his comrades and the cause he was fighting for.

Lim Bo Seng's Force 136

Lim Bo Seng's name is inextricably linked with that of Force 136, for he had a hand in setting it up and bringing it to fruition. The British regrouped after their disastrous capitulation and plans were afoot to regain their lost territories. However, they lacked intelligence on the Japanese troops in Malaya and this could only be remedied if they had a good intelligence network on the ground. For this purpose, Lim Bo Seng was persuaded by the British to help set up a clandestine spy network in Malaya. With Bo Seng's help, the British joined forces with Nationalist China to recruit and train the Force 136 members, which consisted mainly of overseas Malayan Chinese. From China, these men were sent to the Far East Military School in Poona, India where they were taught shooting and survival skills, jungle and guerrilla warfare and intelligence gathering techniques.

Upon graduation, they were sent to Malaya in batches, at first by submarine. The first team, Gustavus I, departed for Malaya on 11th May 1943 and landed in Tanjong Hantu on the 24th. The first base was set up at Bukit Segari. Subsequent batches were landed along the west coast of Malaya. Later on in the war, Force 136 members were parachuted into various Malayan states. As the war dragged on and it became apparent that Japan was losing the war, more and more British officers and Force 136 members were parachuted in, along with weapons and supplies. However, before Operation Zipper (the planned British invasion of Malaya) was launched, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Shortly after the surrender, Force 136 was disbanded, but not before its members had been feted as liberation heroes who had put their lives on the line for freedom.

Well the main one is Trade and Shipping. They import and export goods in and out of the country. They also ship other countries goods as well. Singapore is placed in a very good location, near the water which gives them great access to shipping and they are at the busiest port in the world in terms of shipping tonnage.

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Singapore is a developed country.

Singapore is the fourth wealthiest country in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) per capita, and the twentieth wealthiest in terms of GDP (nominal) per capita.

Singapore is one of the most developed countries in the world.

Land, Tax, more knowledge taken from the people of Singapore [if they have some that the British did not], more CHEAP Labour, more resources...etc. etc.

First, Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii, USA, not in Singapore, which is at the south end of Malaysia.

Second, the simple answer regarding Pearl Harbor is that the Japanese wanted to deal the US Pacific fleet which used Pearl as its base, a crippling blow, in order to hinder or prevent the US entry into WWII.

The US had embargoed import of oil into Japan on response to Japan's invasion in China. Japan reacted by invading southward into French Indochina (now Vietnam) and Malaysia and Indonesia (controlled by the Dutch and British) to capture the oil fields of those two countries. Since Britain was the main colonial and naval power at the time, with its main base in Singapore, they attacked it within hours of Pearl Harbor (and the Philippines - the other big US base in the Pacific).

Early Indian immigrants came to Singapore primarily for economic opportunities and to escape difficult conditions in their home regions, including poverty and political instability. Many were recruited as laborers for the British colonial administration, working in sectors like agriculture, construction, and trade. Additionally, some came as professionals and traders, contributing to the multicultural fabric of Singapore. The promise of better livelihoods and the chance to establish a new life drew many to the island.

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The power of Singapore's defence lies in this forts, which then faces the sea. To the British, the biggest threat that Singapore faces was an attack from the sea. To them, it was impossible for the enemy to fight their way through Malaya, which they taught was hard to take over due to the whole stretch of high altitude in the middle and the dense forests. Moreover, the British had more than 100,000 soldiers in Malaya.

However, the Japanese invaded south-east Asia were well trained in "forest warfare". They had mini-tanks which could move in the dense forests. In addition, they had air support and better guns. The Japanese used the aircrafts to destroy all of the British's naval defence. In addition, their artillery helped eliminate the enemies on land. They took over the major roads of Malaya and fought all the way down to Johor Bahru.

The British were given an order to retreat if necessary, but the units took it as an order to retreat, which granted the Japanese an easy victory in Malaysia. Moreover, the British troops had no motivation to fight, because their primary concern was of the invading Germans.

The Japanese faked an attack on Pulau Ubin, which forced General Percival to move a bulk of his troops to defend the north-eastern part of Singapore. By doing so, they left the north-western part of Singapore unguarded and the Japanese rode bikes across the crossway into Singapore. In addition, the Japanese also faked an attack from the sea, which also made some of the British troops move to the southern part of the island, in fear that the Japanese would launch a naval attack.

With the British in bits and pieces everywhere, the Japanese, even though outnumbered, swiftly took out the British in small groups. This has securely their victory.

Singapore became a crown colony in April 1, 1867.

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Singapore is a parliamentary republic.
its a politacal government

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About 18,513 persons per square mile.

First of all, I would like to inform you that Singapore is a really small country. It is only a little island in the Malay Archipelago. Hence, there are no cities in Singapore. Singapore itself is a country and a city at the same time. I tried to search on Yahoo! the zip code 228233. It turned out that the zip code belongs to a building named GoldBell Towers. It is located along 47 Scotts Road and in the Bukit Timah district. To get there, you might want to take a MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) to Newton MRT station. Goldbell Towers is just a stone's throws away from the MRT station.

I think 7,6 or 5 presidents in Singapore

Yusof Ishak is the first presidents in Singapore, he died in what year?

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Singapore was a British colony and later occupied by the Japanese during WW2. Returned back to the British after the war.

There were only 600 British troops stationed in Singapore by 1952. Many had already been shipped off to fight in Korea. Over half of the troops were conscripted. The rest were regular army, who represented the core of the units, short-term volunteers, and reservists.

Buddhism is the main religion in Singapore with 42 percent of the population following it.

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The British colonised Hong Kong in 1897 after a treaty has been signed with the Chinese after the Opium War that Hong Kong is to be a colony for 100 years and is to be given back to China in 1997.

About three weeks or earlier than that it depends on the shipping service.

No UK citizens do not need a visa to go to Singapore just like Singaporeans do not need a visa to enter UK