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Singapore is one of the most liveable Asian cities

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Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world’s best quality of living, according to the Mercer 2010 Quality of Living Survey.

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Singapore 9th most expensive Asian city

Singapore jumped three spots from a year ago to become the ninth priciest Asian city in the latest cost of living ranking by human resource company ECA International.
It beat Taiwan’s Taipei and China’s Shenzhen and Guangzhou, but remained cheaper than Japan’s Tokyo and Yokohama, and China’s Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Source: Malaysian Insider

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Singapore ranked world’s 3rd least-corrupt country

In a list released by Berlin-based non-governmental corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) yesterday, Singapore emerged as the world’s third least-corrupt country, sharing the spot with Sweden. New Zealand was ranked top, with Denmark second.
Highest scorers in the 2009 CPI are New Zealand at 9.4, Denmark at 9.3, Singapore and Sweden tied at 9.2 and Switzerland [...]

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Press Freedom Index 2009: Singapore Ranked 133th

Reporters Without Borders compiles the Press Freedom Index every year on the basis of questionnaires that are completed by hundreds of journalists and media experts around the world.
This year Press Freedom Index  2009 reflects press freedom violations that took place between 1 September 2008 and 31 August 2009.

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The World’s Leading Financial Centers 2009: Singapore in Top 4

The world’s largest economies took the biggest hit in the World Economic Forum’s second annual Financial Development Report. Global financial centers still lead in the report’s Index, but the effects of financial instability have pulled down their scores compared to last year.
The United Kingdom, buoyed by the relative strength of its banking and non-banking financial [...]

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Times Higher Education QS World University Rankings 2009

Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009 is an annual publication that ranks the “Top 200 World Universities”, and is published by Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). They have been running since 2004 and are broken down by subject and region.
years. The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009 show that institutions in [...]

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Ho Ching the 5th Most Powerful Women in the world

Temasek Holdings Chief Executive Officer Ho Ching has been ranked fifth in Forbes’ annual ranking of the World’s Most Powerful Women.
Forbes’ annual ranking of the most powerful women in the world measures “power” as a composite of public profile–calculated using press mentions–and financial heft. The economic component of the ranking considers job title and past [...]

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