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After the painful experience of the American Revolution, the EIC conducting business from the islands of Penang and Singapore epitomized the British policy of insulating colonies from local politics.
Singapore became the capital of the Straits Settlements — as the EIC called its Malay holdings incorporating Penang and Melaka — and was the linchpin of Britain’s 150-year presence in the region.
The Straits Times of Singapore led on a prediction by World Bank Chief James Wolfensohn, made in an interview with the International Herald Tribune , that as many as 20 million more Indonesians may be forced into poverty by their country's economic crisis and remain desperately poor for years to come.
Crown colony status was granted to Northern Borneo and Singapore, the latter excluded from the Federation because of its large Chinese majority.
"American leave provisions (20 days in total) are among the lowest in the world--slightly more than Cambodia (16), slightly less than Japan (25 days) and Singapore (26 days) and substantially less than the world's best holiday practitioners, Sweden and Greece (a whopping 38 days each)."