Singapore: Past Perfect, Future Tense?



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Towards this end, the GoS chose to focus its efforts on developing Singapore as a hub for service industries like education, health care services, arbitration and legal services, digital technology, biotechnology (research), and tourism. However, the country faced several challenges like the emergence of competing regional hubs, growth in illegal activities, and the threat from global terrorism.......

Also, Singapore came in for a lot of criticism for its record on human rights, and for curbing the freedom of the press and the right to information. Some political analysts felt that Singapore's political system was not truly democratic. Some analysts even took the view that with the growth and prosperity of other Asian economies, Singapore would cease to be a hub and would eventually decline in importance.......

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Singapore was originally a small fishing village. References to the region date back to the third century, when the Chinese called it Pu-luo-chung, meaning 'island at the end of a peninsula' (See Exhibit I for Key Information on Singapore). According to historical accounts, the Chinese started living in the island in greater numbers in the 13th century. In the 14th century, the island came to be known as Singapura, Malay for 'Lion City'. The name later evolved to become Singapore.........

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