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Prior to 1991, urban planners in Singapore preferred to have a strong commercial zone in the centre of the metropolitan area. Coupled with a disjointed residential developments in the northern and eastern areas, and industrial developments in the western areas of Singapore, this resulted in citizens having to travel across the island to their work or retail destinations.
The Ocean Financial Centre is an office building located at Collyer Quay in the Raffles Place region of Downtown Core planning area, Singapore. It is built on the site of the former Ocean Building, which has been demolished. The new building retained the name and many of the tenants of the former office block, and will serve primarily as a home ...
The Singapore Rail Test Centre (SRTC) is a railway testing facility in Tuas, Singapore. Constructed on the former site of the Raffles Country Club and opposite Tuas Depot , the 50 ha (120-acre) SRTC will be used to test new rolling stock and rail systems for the Singapore MRT network.
Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is a not-for-profit international arbitration organisation based in Singapore, which administers arbitrations under its own rules of arbitration and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. It was established on 1 July 1991 and is located at Maxwell Chambers, formerly the Customs House. [1]
Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay [note 1] or nicknamed as The Durian [1] [page needed] is a performing arts centre located in the Downtown Core of Singapore near the mouth of the Singapore River. Named after the nearby Esplanade Park , it consists of two rounded structures: one housing a concert hall with about 1,600 seats; and the other a ...
A 2014 analysis by the Pew Research Center found Singapore to be the world's most religiously diverse nation. [ 5 ] The most followed religion in Singapore is Buddhism , with a plurality of 31.1% of the resident population identifying themselves as adherents at the most recent decennial census in 2020.
The area consisting of modern-day Woodlands Town first witnessed the opening of the Johor-Singapore Causeway in 1923. Early Woodlands consisted of villages where residents made their living mostly as small-time shopkeepers and vegetable farmers in the Marsiling area, while rubber plantations and poultry farms dot the landscape at where modern-day Admiralty is located.
Jetex is a private aviation and flight support company based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The company has 38 fixed-base operators (FBOs) and ground handling stations in over 50 locations around the world, including the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Americas.