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Singapore has 4 official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil, with Malay being Singapore’s national language. However, English is the most widely spoken language and is the common means of communication. The local colloquial form of English is Singlish, which has borrowings from Chinese dialects and Malay and is spoken with its own unique inflections. One common example is the ending of certain sentences with “lah” or “lor” for emphasis.
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Singapore had initially worn sky blue shirts and shorts as their home kit. In the late 80's, The Lions adopted the national colours of red and white for their home kit while they kept blue as the colour for the away kit. This tradition stayed on through the 90's. However, in 2006, kit supplier, Nike reverted the national team's colours back to blue as its home kit and white as the change kit, for the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship. The move raised a few eyebrows since red had been the traditional colour for nearly two decades. But right after the ASEAN Football Championships, red was the colour again and it is still the colour of the national team jerseys as of now.
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Singapore continues to attract investment funds on a large scale despite its relatively high-cost operating environment. The United States leads in foreign investment, accounting for 25% of new commitments to the manufacturing sector in 2006. As of 2006, the stock of investment by U.S. companies in the manufacturing and services sectors in Singapore reached about $60.4 billion (total assets). The bulk of U.S. investment is in electronics manufacturing, oil refining and storage, and the chemical industry. About 1,500 U.S. firms operate in Singapore.
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In modern times Singapore's kit has been supplied by Admiral, Puma, Umbro, Grand Sport, and Tiger. In November 2006, just before the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship kicked off, Nike signed a year's deal of kit sponsorship worth SGD$1,000,000. Nike still supplies the kit for the Singapore national team as of now.
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The SLA is responsible for the management and maintenance of the national land survey system in Singapore. This facilitates the defining of boundaries or legal limits of properties. Towards this end, SLA provides a range of survey services including the setting up and maintenance of the Integrated Survey Network (ISN) and Precise Leveling Benchmarks (PLBM); the allocation of Lot Numbers; the inspection and approval of cadastral surveys, as well as survey plans, maps and records. SLA introduced the SVY21 system which is based on the coordinated cadastre concept, a new method of recording land information, which allows for more accurate and consistent cadastral surveys.
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There are 4 official languages in Singapore: Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English. English is the language of business and administration, and is widely spoken and understood. Most Singaporeans are bilingual, and speak their mother tongue as well as English. Malay is the national language.
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