The East Region consists of the 6 other planning areas.
The East Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. It includes six urban planning areas. As its name implies, it is the easternmost region of Singapore. The regions of Singapore are urban planning subdivisions demarcated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore to aid in its planning efforts. ... A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. ... Singapore is divided into 55 urban planning areas by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, organised into five regions. ...
Changi is an area to the east of Singapore. ... Bedok at Night Bedok Town is a neighbourhood in the eastern part of Singapore. ... Paya Lebar is an area in the central-eastern part of Singapore. ... Pasir Ris is primarily a residential area in Singapore comprising many high-rise residential dwelling blocks, mostly public housing built by the Housing and Development Board in Pasir Ris New Town. ... Tampines (or Tampines New Town) is the largest residential area of the city-state of Singapore and is located in the East of the main island. ...
The Central Area is the collective term for a group of financial and commercial districts in centre of Singapore which was previously otherwise known as the Central Business District and was renamed to accommodate the expanded function of the area. ... The Central Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. ... The West Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. ... The North Region of Singapore is one of the five regions in the city-state. ...
Singapore's deputy prime minister and defense minister, Tony Tan, said on a recent tour of the new Changi Naval Base, which will not be completed until 2003, that it was being constructed to meet the needs of the Singapore Navy.
To alert the region, Singapore announced a couple of years ago that its deep-draft naval pier would be available for US aircraft carriers to use.
"While Singapore may be the most open advocate of the US presence, there is a regional consensus that such a presence is a stabilizing one," said Melina Nathan, associate research fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, although she added that Singapore was eager to see the Bush administration engage, not confront, China.
The American and European regions were defined to inlcude whole continents; the African Region was based partly on political frontiers and partly on geographic frontiers.
It was, thus, that in the South-East Asia Region, France (representing French India), Portugal (representing Portuguese India) and the United Kingdom (representing the Maldive Islands), attended the meetings of the Regional Committee for South-East Asia, from the second to the sixteenth sessions.
In 1969, Afghanistan, one of the original members of the South-East Region, was transferred at its request and the approval of the Assembly to the Eastern Mediterranean Region because of geographical contiguity and for political reasons.
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