{"id":339,"date":"2007-02-08T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=339"},"modified":"2007-02-08T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T07:03:38","slug":"forgotten-world-64-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (64): Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Singapore\">Singapore<\/a> comprises the main island &#8211; linked by a causeway and a bridge to the southern tip of Malaysia &#8211; and around 50 smaller islands. Chinese make up more than 75% of the community of 4.4M; Malays and Indians make up much of the remainder; and there are many foreign workers.<br \/>\nOnce a colonial outpost of Britain, Singapore has become one of the world&#8217;s most prosperous and most technologically advanced places. According to the quality-of-life index by the Economist Intelligence Unit,  it has the highest standard of living in Asia, and is ranked 11th in the world.<br \/>\nHowever, South-East Asia&#8217;s hi-tech, wealthy city-state is also known for the conservatism of its leaders and its strict social controls.  Although Singapore is a multi-party nation, the People&#8217;s Action Party (PAP) has been the dominant force since independence. Rights groups have accused some politicians of using defamation suits to silence their opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore comprises the main island &#8211; linked by a causeway and a bridge to the southern tip of Malaysia &#8211; and around 50 smaller islands. Chinese make up more than 75% of the community of 4.4M; Malays and Indians make up much of the remainder; and there are many foreign workers. Once a colonial outpost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}