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On 21st November 2015, the school finally closed her doors with a fitting function “Celebrations 2015”where CDSS ex-School Leaders, Pioneer Teachers, Senior Educators, ex-staff and ex-students attended. The function was graced by Ms Sim Ann, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth & Ministry of Finance and MP for ...
The HDB Hub at Toa Payoh, headquarters of the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. HDB flats in Jurong West. The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore.
Goh Chok Tong [a] AC SPMJ (born 20 May 1941) is a Singaporean former politician who served as the second prime minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004 and as a senior minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2011.
Teo Chee Hean PPA(E) (Chinese: 张志贤; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tiuⁿ Chì-hiân; pinyin: Zhāng Zhìxián; born 27 December 1954) [1] is a Singaporean politician and former two-star rear-admiral who has been serving as Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 and Coordinating Minister for National Security since 2015.
In the letter, he wrote that "it would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and Mandarin". [6] Lee later mentioned Chee's letter in his book My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore's Bilingual Journey and said that the call to return to the use of Chinese dialects was a ...
Singapore has a close defence and political relationship with the United States and is one of its strongest bilateral partners in Southeast Asia. [119] The US is an important arms supplier to Singapore, with US$7.34 billion in active sales under the Foreign Military Sales system as of 2020. [120]
Changi Naval Base (CNB), officially known as the RSS Singapura – Changi Naval Base, [1] is a naval base of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). Located about 1.5 kilometres east of Changi Air Base (East) and 3.5 kilometres east of Singapore Changi Airport, the base was built on 1.28 km 2 (0.49 sq mi) of reclaimed land.
Halimah binti Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician and lawyer who held the office of the eighth president of Singapore from 2017 to 2023, making history as the first woman to serve in this role.