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Cool Facts


General

  • The fastest-selling book of all time in Singapore is "Hello Chok Tong, Goodbye Kuan Yew".

  • Suntec City's "Fountain of Wealth" is the largest fountain in the world.

  • Singapore’s highest grossing locally-made movie is "Money No Enough", which raked in S$6.02 million in 1998.

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Work

  • Singapore is the 2nd most competitive economy in the world, after Switzerland, according to the World Economic Forum.

  • Singapore is ranked 2nd in the world and 1st in Asia for having the best protection of intellectual property by World Economic Forum in 2012.

  • In 2011, Singapore was ranked first in the world as the city with the best investment potential by BERI.

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Live

  • More than 80% of Singaporeans live in public housing flats.

  • Every day, over 8.9 million trips are made on Singapore's public transport.

  • Singapore has 3 regional libraries and 21 community libraries scattered island-wide.

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Play

  • The Singapore Art Museum houses the largest collection of 20th-century Southeast Asian art in the region.

  • One of Singapore’s newest malls, ION Orchard, has over 300 shops on eight floors.

  • Singapore hosted the world's first Youth Olympic Games in 2010.

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Move

  • A Goods and Services Tax of 7% is applicable for all items imported into Singapore.

  • There are 192,300 overseas Singaporeans as of June 2011.

  • All dogs imported into Singapore must be implanted with a microchip which matches their veterinary papers.

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