Singapore has the biggest and best of everything. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the Southeast Asian citystate is home to the world’s largest fountain - the Fountain of Wealth. It is located in the huge Suntec City shopping mall. Every night, there’s an impressive light and laser show between 8pm and 9pm. During the day, you [...]
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Singapore River
The state-of-the-art campus of the SMU which is located very close to the city center of Singapore shows the city-state’s commitment to world-class education:
some photos from my first three days in Singapore: (for more photos, visit
http://economatters.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/photos-from-singapore-ii/)
Bugis shopping street
at the Singapore River
delicious food everywhere
lush green vegetation on Sentosa Island
Is Singapore affected by the global economic crisis?
Is there a place on this planet not affected by the crisis?
Obviously, every country in the developed world is hit hard by the effects of the current crisis - which started in the U.S. housing market in 2007 - due to its enormous scope and international scale. Many [...]
Due to enormous subsidies paid by electricity consumers, Germany has become a leader in renewable energy technologies, most notably wind energy. Although alternative sources of energy might soon become close to cost-competitive with conventional energy sources, they can barely be considered a real alternative as long as the energy output is not reliable. The problem [...]
Singapore’s skyline is really impressive. All Singaporeans can be proud of what they and the generations before have achieved. The height of the skyscrapers lining the Singapore River and Marina Bay shows how successfully Singapore had been turned into a bustling global business and trade hub from a port village in the matter of a few [...]
as I promised, here are the first photos from my trip to Singapore:
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It’s 5.40 am and I just stepped out of a Boeing 747-400 after a 12 hour red-eye flight from Singapore, but I feel relaxed and wide awake. Though I had booked an economy class flight, I received a new boarding pass for Business Class when boarding the aircraft at Singapore’s Changi Airport because economy class [...]
