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As of 2010, the top marginal rates for corporate tax stood at 17% and personal income tax at 20%, with effective rates being much lower. As a gesture of goodwill, and to assist lower-income groups, several supermarket chains absorbed the 2% increase in GST, ranging for a period of one month to six months.
Crime rates in Singapore are some of the lowest in the world, with petty crimes such as pickpocketing and street theft rarely occurring, and violent crime being extremely rare. [1] Penalties for drug offences such as trafficking in Singapore are severe, and include the death penalty. [2]
On 14 December 2020, Singapore became the first Asian country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine. [9] The first shipment of the vaccine arrived seven days later on 21 December. [10] [11] Singapore also received its first shipment of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac vaccine, on 22 December 2020.
It was launched in 2015 in Singapore, before its global expansion. [3] Since 2021, Shopee is considered the largest e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia with 343 million monthly visitors [citation needed]. It also serves consumers and sellers across countries in East Asia and Latin America who wish to purchase and sell their goods online.
This data is for entire populations, and does not reflect the differences in rates relative to different age groups. For example, in the United States as of 27 April 2021, the reported case fatality ratios were 0.015%, 0.15%, 2.3%, and 17% for the age groups 0–17, 18–49, 50–74, and 75 or over, respectively. [1]
According to The World Fact Book, Singapore produces about 20,170 barrels of crude oil per day, ranking it 78th in the list of the world's oil producing countries. [3] The government-owned Singapore National Oil Corporation (Abbreviation: SNOC) is in charge of the governance of the country's oil industry and protecting it. [4]
Graphite flakes can cost around US$0.9/kg carbon. [20] Price of synthetic industrial diamond for grinding and polishing can range from 1200 to 13 300 USD/kg, while cost per weight of large synthetic diamonds for industrial applications can be on the order of million dollars per kilogram. [21] 7: N: Nitrogen: 0.0012506: 19 (5.263 × 10 17 kg) 0. ...
Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the Government of Singapore. Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects , and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late ...