Singapore retains its special multiracial quality acquired from its early days when Arabs, Chinese, Europeans, Indians and Straits - born Chinese (or Peranakan) came to live side by side with the indigenous Malays. Today, the population approaching the four million mark has forged a single national identity, so much so that you are likely to hear someone regard himself as a Singaporean first before a Chinese, Malay, Indian or Eurasian.

Very recently accredited in the list of developed nations Singapore is a country that concentrates much on the impeccable measures that would boast its economy. The rigid administrative system and the collective will of the whole genus of the country are conducive to its emergence as the giant among the Southeast Asian nations.