Singapore became a free port and the British colonial authorities adopted a laissez-faire policy with regard to immigration. As a result large numbers of Chinese entered Singapore. By 1824, the Chinese comprised 31 percent of the island's population. By 1840, half of the island's population ...
The low EV adoption rate is considerably low compared to other countries having the second largest population and seventh largest country; there is a long path to match the growth rate. Hence it becomes essential to develop a robust and suitable charging infrastructure to promote the sale and ...
Education in Singapore is hence a highly prized and valued enterprise since human resources are the only “natural” resource that Singapore has. As such, there is strong government support and generous funding for education and educational research in the country. With a population of 5.612 ...
That English figures so prominently in the SAR government’s trilingual and biliterate (TaB) language policy is hardly surprising, given that Hong Kong was under British rule for over 150 years but also in view of the international currency of English as the de facto global language. Nor woul...
Nor would Cantonese and SWC as the other TaB pillars raise any eyebrows as the majority of the local population is Cantonese-speaking. Added to the 9 All ECR reports (1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997) are downloadable from the Education Commission website: https://www.e...
During colonial rule, education in rural areas continued to be left to re- ligious organizations, including Christian missionaries and Muslim religious schools. By the 1920s, it is estimated that less than 7% of the native population was literate, with the literate population being located only ...
“We think that Southeast Asia and the Middle East both present very unique opportunities for Chinese corporates as they go overseas, spanning from natural resources, the young population and rising consumer in these markets,” Oliver Brinkmann, Asia Pacific Co-head of Global Corporate Banking at ...
The Plant-Based Food Association (2024) reported 8 billion dollars in sales of plant-based foods in 2022, and 48% of restaurants feature plant-based products. In the United States, approximately 66% of the population is interested in plant-based foods. Consumers are now more aware of the po...
(Wikipedia2019). Due to the high density of population, lack of natural resources, and influence of the Chinese culture, people in Taiwan tend to value education and Confucianism very much. This is because it is believed that education can improve one’s economic position in society and can ...
The documented pitfalls of merging data from different genotyping facilities (even when generated on the same genotyping platform), such as inconsistencies in strand orientation, sample relatedness and population stratification across sites, site-specific batch effects, and errors introduced in the merging...