Lion City

Singapore is known as the Lion City, and our national symbol is that of the lion because apparently, Sang Nila Utama (according to our social studies textbooks anyway) landed on our shores, saw a lion hiding in the bushes and named it "Singapura".

lazy saturday afternoon thoughts melcircus 2006

Consider that in the 1980s, Singapore's corporate tax rate was 40%; today companies in the Lion City pay 17% of profits, just half a percentage point more than in Hong Kong.

Mr. Tsang's Tax Pledge 2011

The Dream King and I had traded direct messages on Twitter weeks and months earlier, hoping to negotiate a time to meet during his brief stay in the Lion City.

hero worship, or how i met the dream king jlundberg 2010

The Dream King and I had traded direct messages on Twitter weeks and months earlier, hoping to negotiate a time to meet during his brief stay in the Lion City.

hero worship, or how i met the dream king jlundberg 2010

The launch party at the very awesome BooksActually map starts in the Lion City at 8 p.m. and ends sometime around 10 or 10:30.

dudez! tomorrow iz surreal botany day! jlundberg 2008

It will be 16 days of excitement, thrill and breathtaking racing action in the Lion City.

Grand Prix In Singapore 2008 2008

Saturday afternoon I went over to meet my mother and Lion City in Milpitas.

Archive 2008-02-01 papabear 2008

Saturday afternoon I went over to meet my mother and Lion City in Milpitas.

Archive 2008-02-03 papabear 2008

The Lion City aims to package similar attractions in one place, and by doing so to revive a tourism industry that has lost market share since the late 1990s.

Viva... er, Singapore? 2007

All this makes the Lion City the newest front in a war that began in Macau four years ago, when the Sands became the first international player to challenge billionaire Stanley Ho's 40-year monopoly on gaming in the former Portuguese enclave.

Casinos Royale 2007