Such policies, of course, helped propel Singapore from third world to first in a generation.
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But the gap between London and New York, in first and second place, and Hong Kong and Singapore in third and fourth has narrowed in recent surveys.
In this context, we also welcomed the establishment of the Singapore-US Third Country Training Program, which also offers relevant capacity building programs for ASEAN Member States.
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They see youths burning through cash, and rich people who are totally oblivious to the sacrifices made by earlier generations that helped places like Singapore climb from Third World to First World status in just a few decades.
Singapore accounts for a third of the world's tropical fish market.
Sydney joins Singapore and Tokyo as the third Region in Asia Pacific and the ninth Region worldwide.
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The barrels reportedly would have been loaded for shipment April 15 through a third party in Singapore.
The Chinese themselves are having second thoughts and in February a third partner, Singapore Technologies, threatened to pull out.
Nearly one-third of buyers in Singapore in 2011 were foreigners, more than double the number seen a decade before.
Police in Indonesia say they are investigating a suspected baby-smuggling ring that is thought to have taken some infants to Singapore and sold them on to third countries.
SINGAPORE Asian Pay Television Trust, an investment vehicle for one of Taiwan's biggest pay-TV operators, has secured commitments from as many as eight cornerstone investors to take up nearly a third of its planned Singapore initial public offering, people with knowledge of the deal said Wednesday.
Singapore Airlines' net rose 5.4% in the third quarter from a year earlier, but it said high fuel costs and a strong Singapore dollar will pose challenges this year.
Its nondegree executive-education courses have about 1, 000 participants this academic year, about one-third the size of its Singapore program and one-fifth the figure in Fontainebleau.
And more than a third of those are frozen in Singapore's Central Limit Order Book, an offshore market declared invalid by Malaysia last year.
Third Voice is the handiwork of three programmers from Singapore, where a court once caned an American youngster for his graffiti.
Good health and a relatively low birth rate have made Sri Lanka the country with the third-oldest population in Asia after Japan and Singapore.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has targeted a third victory in four years in this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix but concedes that it will be "very hard" to achieve.
LA-Long Beach harbour because of its size it is the third-biggest port in the world after Hong Kong and Singapore.
Singapore Airlines said it will buy 30 Boeing 787-10X aircraft, the third variant of the plane maker's newest and most technologically advanced passenger jet, subject to Boeing formally launching the model.
Among other winners, Spain's Grupo Inmocaral (No. 1346) and Singapore's Golden-Agri Resources (No. 1868) finished second and third in terms of 52-week price change, up 312% and 280%, respectively.
The NSP and the Singapore People's Party (SPP), an SDP splinter group, comprise the third camp, which also includes three smaller parties.
The same occured in Korea, in Singapore, in Taiwan, all autocratic states that eventually became democratic as their per capita incomes reached a third to half the US level. all were peaceful and successful transitions unlike the foreign press inspired ones in the Arab world.
Hamilton had gone into the Singapore round with a slender one-point lead over Massa having failed to overturn his demotion from first to third in the Belgian Grand Prix.
Thanks to Singapore's first-past-the-post system, the opposition has never translated its roughly one-third of the votes into more than four seats, and at the last election, in 1997, won just two out of 83 seats.
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