Its name means ''Lion City''

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With the Americans falling back on Bataan, and the British retreating to Fortress Singapore, Pug could see little hope anywhere, except in the Russian counterattacks.

That was why the Main Striking Force under Vice Admiral Kurita two new monster battleships, the biggest and most powerful in the world with three other battleships and many cruisers and destroyers -laid off Singapore, so as to have access to the oil of Java and Borneo.

Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and so on.

Chief Towns--Bombay, Madras, Calicut, Aden, Malacca, Singapore, Pegu, Colombo.

Freighters, containerships, bulk carriers, tankers, military vessels of every size and shape, cruise ships, they all docked at Singapore, and they carried multinational crews.

Among the twelve thousand natives of India who have been attracted to Singapore, and among all the mingled foreign nationalities, the Klings from the Coromandel coast, besides being the most numerous of all next to the Chinese, are the most attractive in appearance, and as there is no check on the immigration of their women, one sees the unveiled Kling beauties in great numbers.

And he was in the docks when the Turkish Pacha arrived from Singapore.

They could fly one of those copters away to Bangkok or get it down to Jakarta or Singapore and get a ton of money for it.

But more often they were three-way deals, cash at both ends and a trade in the middle: a consignment of Laotian teak marooned by bankruptcy in Singapore that they traded to the Poles for a warehouse of glass, which they sold on, strictly cash on delivery, to a discount warehouse in Chicago.

With the fall of Singapore, Penang, and Martaban, the Bay of Bengal is now vulnerable to what must be considered the superior sea- and air-power of Japan in that area.

Singapore he barely escaped having his suit and mask garnished for nonpayment of one claim.

But he had an extravagantly accurate idea of what the table wanted to hear so he talked on for his father: the beheading of the Filipino thug, a typhoon off the Marshall Islands, an anaconda he bought while drunk in Recife that wound itself so tightly around the mast that it could not be detached until they offered it a piglet, the beauty of some of the horses he left in care of his crew hands in Cuba, and how some of the citizens in Singapore eat dogs, which shocked everyone at the table except One Stab who asked Tristan about Africa.

One visit to Niagara Falls and a glorious week of Saengerfest at Cincinnati had simply whetted her desire to take Edwin by the hand and beat it all the way around the Globe, via Singapore.

Sean measured him with expertise gained on the waterfronts of Shanghai, Singapore, Amurang, and Taku Bar.

Since the part already in place functioned normally, Singapore elected not to replace it, and the aircraft was sent on to Hong Kong, the home terminal for Transpacific, where a genuine replacement part was assured.