helpin' daddy do up a fact sheet for him to put on his cab (yes, my dad drives a merc premier cab) for the upcoming event in singapore.


SINGAPORE
Geographical Location: 136.8 km north of the equator, between latitudes 103 degrees 38' E and 104 degrees 06' E
Total Land Area: 699.4 square km as of 2005(Main Island)
Population: 4.4 million as of July 2006
Races: approximately 76.8% Chinese, 13.9% Malay, 7.9% Indian and 1.4% Others
Literacy Rate: 95%
Climate: Minimum- 23 to 26 deg C. Maximum- 31 to 34 deg C
Official Language: English (Language of administration), Chinese (Mandarin), Malay (National language) and Tamil
National Flower: Vanda Miss Joaquim – Hybrid between Vanda hookeriana and Vanda teres
Forms of public transport:
MRT service: 68 stations
LRT service: 43 stations
Bus service: 2 companies operating 265 routes with a fleet of 3,429 buses
Taxi service:6 groups of operators running a fleet of 20,407 taxis


Timeline
1200s- Known as Pu Luo Cheng / Temasek
1299 to 1347- Sang Nila Utama, a legendary prince, founded Singapura (Lion City)
1819- Founding of Modern Singapore by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
1942- Fell to the Japanese on February 15, renamed Syonan-to (Light of the South), to 1945
1945 to 1955- Post War Period
1955- Self Government
1959- National Anthem, Majulah Singapura, written by Zubir Said, presented on December 3
1963- Merger of Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo (now Sabah), forming Malaysia
1965– Gained independence on August 9, renamed Singapore
1965- Admitted into the United Nations as the 117th member on September 21
1965- Becomes the 22nd member of the Commonwealth in October
1965- Constitutional Amendment Act is passed and Yusof Bin Ishak becomes the first President of Singapore on December 22
1967- National Service Bill passed on March 14
1967- Issue of first Singapore Dollar (SGD) on June 12
1967- Singapore is the founding member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1981- Vanda Miss Joaquim was chosen as Singapore's national flower

read more here.

also, i found out something from wikipedia.

Ng is a Cantonese and Hakka transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 (Pinyin: Wú) and 伍 (Pinyin: Wu), and Hokkien and Teochew transliteration of the Chinese surname 黃/黄 (Pinyin: Huáng). It is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States and Ung in Australia.

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