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  2. Contact Singapore - Wikipedia

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    Contact Singapore (Chinese: 联系新加坡) was an agency of the Singapore government whose primary function is to draw people from around the world to work, invest and live in Singapore, with the ultimate aim of boosting economic development.

  3. GIC (sovereign wealth fund) - Wikipedia

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    GIC Private Limited is a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund that manages the country's foreign reserves.Established by the Government of Singapore in 1981 as the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, from which the acronym "GIC" is derived, its mission is to preserve and enhance the international purchasing power of the reserves, with the aim to achieve good long-term returns above ...

  4. Central Provident Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Central Provident Fund Board (CPFB), commonly known as the CPF Board or simply the Central Provident Fund (CPF), is a compulsory comprehensive savings and pension plan for working Singaporeans and permanent residents primarily to fund their retirement, healthcare, and housing [3] needs in Singapore.

  5. Contact (1997 American film) - Wikipedia

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    Contact was released on LaserDisc, VHS and the (then new) DVD format in December 1997. Among the special features are three audio commentaries: by director Zemeckis and producer Starkey, by visual effects supervisors Ken Ralston and Stephen Rosenbaum, and by star Jodie Foster. [34] Contact was released on Blu-ray Disc on October 6, 2009 ...

  6. Danny Yong - Wikipedia

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    Danny Yong (born 1972) is a Singaporean hedge fund manager. He is the Chief Investment Officer and founding partner of Dymon Asia Capital, an Asia-focused alternative investment management firm based in Singapore.

  7. History of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    Singapore's foreign policy: Coping with vulnerability (Psychology Press, 2000) online; Miksic, John N. (2013). Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300–1800. NUS Press. ISBN 978-9971-69-574-3. Murfett, Malcolm H., et al. Between 2 Oceans: A Military History of Singapore from 1275 to 1971 (2nd ed. Marshall Cavendish International Asia, 2011).

  8. Geography of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    Singapore's main territory looks like a diamond-shaped island, although its territory includes surrounding smaller islands. The farthest outlying island is Pedra Branca. Of Singapore's dozens of smaller islands, Jurong Island, Pulau Tekong, Pulau Ubin and Sentosa are the larger ones. Most of Singapore is no more than 15 meters above sea level.

  9. .com - Wikipedia

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    The domain com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet.Created in the first group of Internet domains at the beginning of 1985, its name is derived from the word commercial, [1] indicating its original intended purpose for subdomains registered by commercial organizations.