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This 1959 rally at the Padang marked the first time the red-and-white flag and state anthem were unveiled to the public.
What is the 1959 National Loyalty Rally?
This Javanese dish of beef stewed in coconut milk is a staple at Malay weddings.
What is rendang?
This 1824 treaty redrew Nusantara boundaries, creating the Malay world divide between British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.
What is the Anglo-Dutch Treaty?
This sector, though declining in share of GDP, remains vital as Singapore’s second-largest employer after services.
What is manufacturing?
This Singapore government roadmap outlines 23 transformation maps covering 80% of the economy.
What is the Industry Transformation Map?
Singapore’s “Garden City” vision was first launched in this year, linking urban identity to greenery as soft power.
What is 1967?
Originating from Bugis traders, this rice cake dish in peanut sauce is now a common hawker breakfast.
What is lontong?
The 1511 fall of Melaka triggered the movement of Malay scholars and traders to this Johor-based polity.
What is the Johor Sultanate?
Keppel, Sembcorp, and PSA anchor this cluster that’s now transitioning toward offshore renewables and automation.
What is the maritime & offshore engineering industry?
As automation advances, this phenomenon describes mid-skill jobs shrinking, leaving high- and low-wage extremes.
What is job polarisation?
This was the first HDB satellite town, designed as a blueprint for integrated urban living.
What is Toa Payoh?
This fermented soybean product, rich in protein, is widely used in Malay households and also discussed in sustainability circles.
What is tempeh?
The 14th-century Javanese poem Nagarakretagama was key in chronicling the territorial claims of this empire.
What is the Majapahit?
Singapore’s biomedical science strategy is built on this “twin pillar” model.
What are the research & engineering pillars?
Singapore’s PWM (Progressive Wage Model) is often contrasted with this “one-size-fits-all” approach debated globally.
What is minimum wage?
The 1979 bilingualism shift emphasized English as a working language while relegating mother tongues as these.
What are second languages?
The “crispy rendang” debate wasn’t about texture — it was really about this.
What is national/regional pride?
This soldier was the last living trooper (died in 2021 due to COVID-19) of the Malay Regiment that fought in the famous Bukit Chandu stand-off.
Who is Private Ujang Mormin?
MAS is piloting Project Guardian, which explores the tokenization of these assets.
What are the digital financial/tokenised assets?
The “skills adjacencies” model promoted by SkillsFuture allows workers to pivot laterally across industries based on these.
What are transferable skills or skill adjacencies?
This 1984 policy shift grouped constituencies into teams of MPs, altering representation and minority politics.
What is the Group Representation Constituency (GRC)?
This traditional Johor dish, made with belacan, coconut milk, and daun kaduk, was once served in royal courts but is rarely found today.
What is urap daun kaduk?
The correct name of this well-known historical reference is Sulalatus Salatin (“Genealogy of Kings”).
What is the Sejarah Melayu or the Malay Annals?
This little-known export sector positions Singapore as one of the top three globally in oil-related activity despite having no oil reserves.
What is oil trading/bunkering?
This global megatrend, coined by Klaus Schwab, describes the merging of digital, physical, and biological systems.
What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)?