The Singapore Passport - Passport-Collector.com
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History 3<br />
Why: <strong>Singapore</strong> had no raw materials, merger to benefit the<br />
economy (<strong>com</strong>mon free market, eliminating trade tariffs, solving<br />
unemployment woes and to support new industries)<br />
However: social unrest and disputes (policies favouring ethnic<br />
Malays; <strong>com</strong>munist subversion; interests of main political parties)<br />
9 August 1965: Parliament of Malaysia expelled <strong>Singapore</strong> from<br />
the Federation -> <strong>Singapore</strong> became independent (“Republic of<br />
<strong>Singapore</strong>”)
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