A comprehensive list of links to help you with your case-writing.

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General

Sprinter
An online source of press releases and speeches from the Singapore Government.

a2o Online
National Archives of Singapore's portal site on heritage information. Search for information across NHB's various independent databases and view selected photographs, maps and plans, listen to oral history interview samplers and watch snippets of audio-visual recordings.

Country Data provided by The World Bank Group.
On agriculture, domestic finance, development, early childhood development, education, environment, governance, health, informatics, infrastructures, industry, international economics, labor and employment, macroeconomics, and poverty.

Factiva.com
Combining the old Dow Jones and Reuters search, this all-in-one stop allows you to search for news, industry information, market research and more using 17 publications including The Straits Times, Business Times, Asiaweek etc.

Note: NTU students can access this database from the NTU Library.

Global Official Statistics
Direct URL links to national statistical organizations in the world.

International Trade Statistics
by the World Trade Organization Statistic Division.

Official statistics of Singapore by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
Includes the latest monthly, quarterly and annual indicators on the Singapore economy; demographic indicators; social indicators; employment statistics, literacy & education statistics; information on population & area; price indices; household expenditures, census of population; and business expectations survey reports.

The World Factbook by the CIA
Provides profiles of countries round the world.

Zoomerang.com
This free web service allows you to create, format, customise a survey and also helps tabulate and present your survey results. Very useful for research methods.

Economics, Industry & Trade

Annual budget statements and off-budget measures of Singapore (1996 – 2001) by the Ministry of Finance, Singapore. Also includes tax information and government expenditure.

Construction statistics of Singapore by the Building & Construction Authority, Singapore. Including construction cost indices, material price index, tender price index, construction demand, construction output.

Economic Indicators of Singapore by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Includes Singapore's exchange rates and interest rates since 1983, foreign reserves, financial databases, monthly statistical bulletins with coverage of Singapore's monetary and financial development including the Asian Dollar Market, foreign exchange and interest rates, insurance statistics and credit & charge card statistics.

Economic surveys (quarterly) and economic reports (annual) by the Economic Development Board of Singapore.

Economic news and updates on the Asian economy from the Nikkei Net Interactive.

Trade & market information and other useful data and resources from Japan's External Trade Organisation's database.

Research reports by the Daiwa Institute of Research.
Provides research reports on economics and strategy and the Asia-Pacific.

R&D statistics of Singapore
Results of the annual survey of R&D in Singapore by the A*STAR: Agency for Science, Technology & Research (formerly the National Science & Technology Board).

Trade statistics of Singapore by International Enterprise Singapore

Education

Education statistics of Singapore by the Ministry of Education.
Includes enrolment in primary, secondary, pre-university, ITE and tertiary institutions and government expenditure on education.

Finance

A guide (with links) on major financial scandals by Roy Davies.

Annual reports and IPOs of companies listed on Singapore Exchange Limited.

Financial statement data for all the companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Free company annual reports and prospectuses by the Public Register's Annual Report Service on over 3,600 public companies listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX etc.

Standard & Poor's (S&P's) financial indices, reference guides, ratings definition and criteria.

Health

Health statistics of Singapore by the Ministry of Health.
Includes population & vital statistics, principal causes of death, top 10 causes of hospitalization, hospital admissions rate by sex and age, health facilities, health manpower and others.

Labour & Productivity

Manpower Statistics by Ministry of Manpower, Singapore.

Maritime

Port statistics of Singapore by Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
Includes vessel arrivals and shipping tonnage, vessel arrivals by type, vessel calls by purpose, total cargo, total container throughput, bunker sales and the Singapore ship registry.

Telecommunication & Internet

Infocomm statistics of Singapore by InfoComm Development Authority of Singapore.
Survey results of Singapore's infocomm industry, manpower & skills and usage; statistics on postal and telecom services; and quality of service performance results of mobile, paging and internet access services.

Worldwide telecommunication statistics and ITU Internet Country Case Studies by International Telecommunication Union.

Tourism & Social

Tourism statistics of Singapore by the Singapore Tourism Board.
Includes visitor arrivals and hotel sector performance.

Library statistics of Singapore
Includes statistics on loans, library membership, visitorship, library collection and materials.