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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. The countr
Letter from William Farquhar to Sultan Muhammad Kanzul Alam, the 21st Sultan of Brunei, dated 28 November 1819. In the first line, Farquhar mentions that Sultan Hussein Shah and Temenggong Abdul Rahman allowed the British East India Company to establish a factory in Singapore on 6 February 1819.
A lithograph by Vincent Brooks of Singapore City in 1865 from the former Mount Wallich
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse, one of the few capital ships sent by Churchill to Singapore to defend it
British prisoners of war evacuating in 1945 following the Japanese surrender at Kallang Airport. The airport's control tower, located near the city, has been conserved.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a Singaporean politician and economist who has served as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023. A former member of the People's Action Party, he served as Member of Par
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…religion 17.1% Christianity 15.0% Islam 7.3% Taoism 5.4% Hinduism 0.4% other Demonym Singaporean Government Unitary parliamentary republic • President Tharman Shanmugaratnam • Prime Minister Lawrence Wong Legislature Parliament Independence from the United Kingdom and Malaysia • Self-governance 3 June 1959 • Malaysia Agreement…
Official portrait, 2023
Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam with Japan's Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Kyōto City, Japan on November 6, 2010.
President Tharman Shanmugaratnam with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Rome, Italy in June 2024.