▼ *amster
Hi kids~
I changed the skin
I know it is quite screwed up too since I am feeling really sleepy
Don't ask why I changed the skin even when I'm sleepy
The previous really hurts my eyes
Like really
So yeah I just thought you guys would want to know
But I don't think anybody even comes by this blog
As usual
anyone with a Blogger account
can just edit any of the parts you guys are not happy with
(although I strongly feel everybody is going to ignore it)
Regarding the tagboard
if you people think the colour doesn't fit
just think please
Nobody even tags anymore plus I lost the cbox account password/ID
So I'm sort of sorry
Besides I think blue is okay
Remember, no vulgarities
Although I bold-ed and italic-ed all the h's in this post
It's all for Jesselyn a.k.a. hamster
Oh noes I just said hamster
Kids please don't learn that word
It's a bad word
Don't ever use it
Although I know all of us do
Lastly
I understand that you guys can't see the fullstops in this post
That's because I never added them
Even more lastly
is anybody interested for class outing during the June holidays?
I think hamster will send a class relay message regarding that
So bye bye
Happy June holidays
happy happy happy
with this much homework
we are even more happy
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▼ History Notes
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CHAPTER 10: PROBS OF POST WAR SINGAPORE AND SOLUTIONS
PROBS:
Refer to chapters 6-9:
Problems can be divided into social, economical and political aspects. The issues Singapore faced in the past set the foundation for a new Singapore to be built because our leaders reflected on these issues and tried to improve.
SOCIAL PROBLEMS:
· A vulnerable multi-racial society: due to Japanese Occupation (planted the seeds of mistrust and prejudice ; leading to many racial riots in the 1950s- 1960s)
· Housing; lack of proper/safe housing facilities. Slum settlements grew rapidly and posed as a potential fire hazard. Also, Singapore had scarcity of land.
· Hygiene: Poor housing settlements (slums) lack proper sewage systems. People not educated to maintain a healthy sense of hygiene.
· Education: many students had their education disrupted during the war. Also, many parents’ did not register their children for primary school education, preferring them to join the workforce instead.
ECONOMICAL PROBLEMS:
· Lack of natural resources
· Rivalry between Malaysia and Singapore
· Unemployment: due to the war, many lost their jobs or weren’t educated enough to meet the needs of the demanding workforce.
POLITICAL PROBLEMS:
· Unpleasant relationship between Malaysia and Singapore
SOLUTIONS:
SOCIAL SOLUTIONS:
· Integrating the society: to promote healthy and harmonious living in a multi racial society.
Done through various ways…
1. Integration through housing…
Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP)
The Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) is implemented to promote racial integration and harmony. The policy also aims to prevent the formation of racial enclaves by ensuring a balanced ethnic mix among the various ethnic communities living in public housing estates.
Under the policy, maximum proportions are set for all ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays, Indians and Others) in each HDB block and neighbourhood as follows:
Under the policy, maximum proportions are set for all ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays, Indians and Others) in each HDB block and neighbourhood as follows:
Ethnic Group | Maximum Proportion | |
Neighbourhood | Block | |
Malays | 22% | 25% |
Chinese | 84% | 87% |
Indians & Others | 12%* | 15%* |
2. Integration through education- previously schools were catered to single races. Presently, it is seen as a good platform to foster racial interaction in the young, hence many public schools catering to all races were built. Moreover, the CCA’s created helped motivate students into working towards a common cause, thus creating opportunities for children of different racial backgrounds to interact.
· Housing: Public housing was given top priority. New towns sprang up and Housing and Development Board apartments were sold at a low cost. To encourage home ownership, Singaporeans were allowed to use their Central Provident Fund savings to pay for these apartments.
E.g. Toa Payoh
· Hygiene: National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign serves to educate Singaporeans on healthy living (hygiene plus dieting). Every food stall would have to pass the hygiene test before being allowed to sell their wares. The certificate of hygiene would then be required to be placed at the stall itself. Discourage spitting in public.
· Education: to promote a knowledge based economy, everyone needed to have basic education. Hence the government made it compulsory for ALL Singaporeans to register for Primary One during the annual enrolment. Failure to do so would render a hefty fine. Financial Assistance was provided to those who needed it. Our leaders strongly believed that nobody should be deprived on an education simply because of financial limitations.
ECONOMICAL SOLUTIONS:
SINGAPORE’S ECONOMIC SITUATION IN A NUTSHELL- LABOUR INTENSIVE (1960s) to CAPITAL INTENSIVE (1970s) to KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY (1980S AND ABOVE)
Road to Success
Instead of demoralizing Singapore, these problems motivated Singapore's leadership to focus on the nation's economy. With Cambridge-educated lawyer Lee Kuan Yew at its helm, the Singaporean government was aggressive in promoting export-oriented, labor-extensive industrialization through a program of incentives to attract foreign investment. After all, Singapore still had its strategic location to its advantage.
With the economic boom of the late 1960s and 1970s, new jobs were created in the private sector. The government provision of subsidized housing, education, health services and public transportation generated new jobs in the public sector. The Central Provident Fund, the country's comprehensive social security scheme sustained by compulsory contributions by employer and employee, provided the necessary capital for government projects and financial security for the country's workers in their old age.
By the late 1970s, the government changed its strategic focus to skill and technology-intensive, high value-added industries and away from labor-intensive manufacturing. In particular, information technology was given priority for expansion and Singapore became the world's largest producer of disk drives and disk drive parts in 1989. In the same year, 30 percent of the country's GDP was due to earnings from manufacturing.
A massive industrialization program was launched with the extension of the Jurong industrial estate and the creation of smaller estates in Kallang Park, Tanjong Rhu, Redhill, Tiong Bahru and Tanglin Halt. The Employment Act and the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act were passed in 1968 to promote industrial peace and discipline among the workforce.
The Economic Development Board was reorganized in 1968 and the Jurong Town Corporation and the Development Bank of Singapore were set up in the same year In 1970, the Monetary Authority of Singapore was established to formulate and implement Singapore's monetary policies.
In 1979, after the shock of two oil crisis, the Government started a program of economic restructuring. This was achieved by modifying education policies, expanding technology and computer education, offering financial incentives to industrial enterprises and launching a productivity campaign.
Singapore's international and financial services sector was and still is one of the fastest growing sectors of its economy accounting for nearly 25 percent of the country's GDP in the late 1980s. In the same year, Singapore ranked with Hong Kong as the two most important Asian financial centers after Tokyo. By 1990, Singapore played host to more than 650 multinational companies and several thousand financial institutions and trading firms. On the political front, Goh Chok Tong succeeded Lee Kuan Yew and in 2004 Lee Hsien Loong, the eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew, became Singapore's third prime minister.
