• Most important, Singapore is stuck with colonial era corporate laws, including that 75% rule.

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  • The gaucho lifestyle, which essentially consists of hunting and herding, has remained constant since the colonial era.

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  • The two countries have yet to settle the territorial issue, which has its roots in the colonial era.

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  • The Malagasy franc, currently worth about 6, 000 to the US dollar, traces its origins back to Madagascar's colonial era.

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  • He wrote and directed a couple of TV dramas, including the mini-series Kuala Selangor XI, set during the British colonial era.

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  • Different cultures from Spain, Latin America and the Philippines met here during the colonial era and created a remarkable cultural heritage.

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  • But only now are some of the dams of the colonial era being restored to use, after years of neglect and silting up.

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  • If colonisation assisted Western hegemony, the end of the colonial era after the second world war set the stage for the rise of China.

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  • Immigration in the United States differs from that of most other industrial countries in that it is not the legacy of a colonial era.

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  • Brzezinski, I said, seemed to argue that the United States had yet to come to terms with the strategic requirements of a post-colonial era.

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  • In 2005 there was even an attempt to force French schools to teach pupils about "the positive role of the French presence overseas" during the colonial era.

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  • Originating in the Spanish colonial era of the 1500s, the music scene of Salta is often referred to as criolla: a melding of Spanish and indigenous ancestry.

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  • Yayat Supriatna, an urban planning expert, told the BBC that Jakarta's drainage system "is still the same as it was in the Dutch colonial era" and should be rebuilt.

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  • In the old part of town, near the Pangani River, a few buildings from the German colonial era and old houses of Indian traders bear cobwebbed witness to this part of history.

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  • At least up until the post-colonial era, that is.

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  • Many people who grew up in Waterbury before 1970 remember school trips to the Mattatuck Museum to see the 10, 000-piece button display, Charles Goodyear's rubber desk and colonial era tools and clothing.

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  • The conflict is a relic of the colonial era when the Sultans of Sulu "leased" what used to be North Borneo to the British government for an annual sum of 5, 300 Mexican gold pieces.

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  • Colonial era architecture and relics can be found across the country but the nation has also preserved much of its African cultural heritage, making for an interesting and diverse mix of old and new.

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  • Mr Mudavadi senior had worked his way up through the ranks of the civil service during the colonial era, starting his career as a teacher and ending up in charge of education in western Kenya.

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  • Two of the oldest Episcopalian parishes in the United States, with roots in the colonial era, voted to break away from the national church to protest against its growing acceptance of gays and the ordination of women.

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  • Furthermore, America and the West have no immediate plans to bestow recognition on Somaliland, the de facto fully autonomous area in the north-west of the country that was ruled by Britain during the colonial era before Somalia's independence in 1964.

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  • Leaving behind this city of Buddhist temples and delicious French pastries (one of the few reminders of the colonial era) the river winds its way through a landscape dominated by forested sugar-loaf mountains that in places rise vertiginously from the river.

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  • For many of the developing countries, it is largely about the past - the West's responsibility for historical carbon emissions, the large share of the "atmospheric space" for carbon that Western nations have appropriated, and - usually unspoken, but real nevertheless - harms visited during the colonial era.

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  • Sleep in Colombo's colonial era Park Street Hotel, bed down at the immaculately restored Illuketia estate near Galle, or, if urges for the beach are simply too strong to ignore, opt for an extended stay at the Dutch colonial Beach House bungalow near Tangalle, where, amid antiques and attentive staff and a personal stretch of private beach, you can experience history and hedonism in equal, enchanting measure.

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  • Its yellow-washed, green-shuttered, colonial-era buildings and angular, post-independence "new Khmer" architecture were both, rightly, renowned.

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  • On cue, the sounds of the fife-and-drum corps filled the hall with Colonial-era music.

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  • UNESCO, for its 17th-century cathedral, its churches and its Casa de Moneda, the colonial-era mint.

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  • Ruqxana (or Ruq) teaches her culinary secrets in her colonial-era home in Joo Chiat.

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  • Tourism in Kolkata has potential, given the glorious colonial-era architecture, plenty of culture and an alluring nightlife.

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  • Zubeyr blames the area's tensions over land and ethnicity on Britain's colonial-era partitioning of Somalia between Kenya and Ethiopia.

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