Production is finally set to go ahead on the long gestating historical action film “1965.” The film recounts some of the dramatic activities nearly 50 years ago as Singapore and Malaysia achieved ...

The Republic of Singapore was proclaimed on 9 August 1965. Unlike all leaders who declare their country’s independence amidst a grand celebration and a large crowd of compatriots in the city’s main ...

Singapore got independence from Britain in 1959 and was poor. Now it is among the top richest countries on per capita GDP basis. They also had a lot of poor slums. In 1960 they set up a Housing Board ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper summarises the main features of Singapore's exceptionally rapid growth performance since 1965, and examines why its savings rate ...