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Singapore Exploration:

Career and Further Studies

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From 27 Jun to 1 Jul, 2016, some of our
students joined the study tour to the Lion City. Yes!
It’s Lion City! Do you know which country we are
talking about? Let’s take a look of the country’s
interesting facts here. I’m sure you can get some hints
from them! 

10 Fun Facts about Singapore

1. Singapore was called Singapura, which
translates as Lion City in Sanskrit.
2. Singapore is a city, a capital and a state all at
once, making it one of only three City States
in the world. It’s our first day of the tour, we were so excited when we saw
3. Singapore is among the 20 smallest each other at the Hong Kong International Airport! Singapore,
countries in the world. The USA is about here we come!!!
15,000 times bigger.
4. Chewing gum is banned in Singapore.
5. Singapore imports sand and fresh water
from Malaysia.
6. Singapore has the world’s tallest indoor
waterfall（瀑布）, which is a towering 35
meters high!
7. Singapore has the fastest walkers on this
planet.
8. Singlish, a Singaporean patois（方言）
mixing English with the odd phrase of
Chinese, Malay and even Tamil（泰米爾語） .
9. Although English is the official（官方）
working language and the most widely used
language in Singapore, the national anthem We got some souvenirs from the organization we visited.
（國歌）‘Majulah Singapura‘ is actually
sung in Malay.
10. The Merlion, a half-fish, half-lion beast, is a
symbol of Singapore.

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