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The Straits Times claimed that Singapore was the second city in the East with a taxi service, after Calcutta. [16] In 1919, The Singapore Motor Taxi Cab and Transport Co. Ltd., which planned to work with the municipal government to set up a taxi service, was proposed, [17] but the plans fell through. [18]
In May 1970, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) announced plans to provide a cooperative taxi and minibus service. [4] The cooperative was aimed to target the problem of pirate or "ali baba" taxis which were rampant in Singapore at that time, [5] and NTUC planned to get former pirate taxi drivers to drive the minibuses as part of the cooperative. [6]
On 21 October 1970, the court dismissed Teo's appeal against his death sentence, and he was eventually hanged in May 1971. Teo was the first person in Singapore's legal history to be tried for a capital case before two judges in the High Court and also the first person to be sentenced to death following the abolishment of jury trials in January ...
Grab Holdings Inc. is a Singaporean multinational technology company headquartered in One-North, Singapore.It is the developer of a super-app for ride-hailing, food delivery, and digital payment services on mobile devices that operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The activity of taxi fleets is usually monitored and controlled by a central office, which provides dispatching, accounting, and human resources services to one or more taxi companies. Taxi owners and drivers usually communicate with the dispatch office through either a 2-way radio or a computer terminal (called a mobile data terminal).
The Port of Singapore, run by the port operators PSA International (formerly the Port of Singapore Authority) and Jurong Port, is the world's busiest in terms of shipping tonnage handled. 1.04 billion gross tons were handled in 2004, crossing the one billion mark for the first time in Singapore's maritime history. Singapore also emerged as the ...
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Between 2 Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (2nd ed. Marshall Cavendish International Asia, 2011). Ong, Siang Song. One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore (Oxford University Press--Singapore, 1984) online. Perry, John Curtis. Singapore: Unlikely Power (Oxford University Press, 2017). Tan, Kenneth Paul (2007).