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Singapore and Japan sign the Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement. 12 October: The Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay officially opened as Singapore's major performing arts centre. 2003: 1 March - 16 July: SARS virus outbreak in Singapore. 6 May: Singapore and United States sign the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USS-FTA). 29 October
Digital Media Academy, supported by Singapore Film Commission: $3,018 August 2006: The High Cost of Living: Leonard Lai Yok Wai: Digital Media Academy, supported by Singapore Film Commission: $877 7 September 2006: Singapore Dreaming (美满人生) Colin Goh/Yen Yen Wu: 5C Films: $452,586 October 2006: The Missing Star (La Stella che non c'è ...
The role of Singapore as a film making hub for Malaya and Singapore (later merging into Malaysia) declined with the three-way standoffs between film unions, Shaw Brothers Studio and Lee Kuan Yew's government driving its superstar P. Ramlee northward to Kuala Lumpur to start his own production studio in 1964. [6]
Singapore, renamed Syonan-to (昭南島 Shōnan-tō, "Bright Southern Island" in Japanese), was occupied by the Japanese from 1942 to 1945. The Japanese army imposed harsh measures against the local population, with troops, especially the Kempeitai or Japanese military police , who were particularly ruthless in dealing with the Chinese ...
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Road to Singapore (1940) Jungle Cavalcade (1941) Mare Senki: Shingeki no kiroku / Malayan War Record: A Record of the Offensive (マレー戦記: 進撃の記錄) (1942) Sensen Nimankiro / Twenty Thousand Kilometre Battle Front (戦線二万粁) (1942) Marai No Tora / The Tiger of Malaya (マライの虎) (1943) Chinta (1948) Nasib (1949) Nilam ...
The history of the Republic of Singapore began when Singapore was expelled from Malaysia and became an independent republic on 9 August 1965. [1] After the separation, the fledgling nation had to become self-sufficient, however was faced with problems including mass unemployment, housing shortages and lack of land and natural resources such as petroleum.
Well before World War II began, the British had developed the “Singapore strategy” to defend the British empire in Asia. In Singapore, they built a naval base at Sembawang, strengthened the air force and installed large 15-inch coastal guns. Singapore became known as the “Gibraltar of the East” or “Fortress Singapore”.