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Around 10% of Singapore's population consists of Indians, mainly from the Tamil ethno-linguistic group of Southern India, as a minority of a largely Chinese population. There are also some 160,000 non-skilled foreigners currently working in Singapore – a majority of them are from the Indian subcontinent.
South Asian Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area form 19% of the region's population, numbering 1.2 million as of 2021. Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area.
During the 1970s, arrivals to Canada from Singapore numbered less than 100 per year while in the following decade, immigrants born in Singapore averaged between 200 and 400. In the years 1989–91, arrivals from Singapore approached 1,000. [2] Many Singaporeans are employed by Canadian companies or in the public sector, including universities.
Indo-Canadians or Indian Canadians, are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The term East Indian is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the Indigenous peoples of Canada. Categorically, Indo-Canadians comprise a subgroup of South Asian Canadians which is a further subgroup of Asian Canadians. According to Statistics Canada, Indians are ...
Singapore and India successfully concluded the second review of the India–Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) on 1 June 2018 in the presence of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. [ 5] It allows for the movement of four types of business people between Singapore and India.
Indian Ocean: The Holchu, a small cargo ship, was sighted adrift in the Indian Ocean on 7 February 1953, around 200 mi (320 km) south of the Nicobar Islands, by HMT Empire Windrush. She was later boarded by the crew of a British cargo ship, alerted by Windrush ' s radio warning. They found no trace of the crew and the Holchu was towed to Colombo.
KidZania (/ k ɪ d ˈ z eɪ n i ə /) [1] is a Mexican privately held international chain of indoor family entertainment centers currently operating in 30 [2] locations worldwide, allowing children to role play adult jobs and earn currency. [3] [4] It receives at least 9 million visitors per year. [2]
Politician. economist. Signature. Tharman Shanmugaratnam[ a] (born 25 February 1957), also known mononymously as Tharman, is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been serving as the ninth president of Singapore since 2023. Prior to his presidency, Tharman served as Senior Minister of Singapore between 2019 and 2023, Chairman of the ...