In conjunction with the birthday celebration of Singapore’s fifty years independence day, the New York-based English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news known as Wall Street Journal updated their site with valuable information and memorable photos of country’s journey in the past five decades from a Southeast Asian backwater to a global powerhouse of finance and commerce. All those transformation are served in attractive yet informative charts and photos, including how the country have changes both in physical and cultural aspects, how its residents became richer per capita than their counterparts in the United States or Germany, its fertility rates among citizens, their upscale tourism industry as being home to myriad entertainment options, how having investment from foreign companies help the development of its country, to the main characters in Singapore’s rich history or those who shaped the nation. The country first fifty years of independence is definitely have been characterized by powerful political oratory, ideological conflict, and obsession about succession. For more information and complete graphics of Singapore in the last fifty years, please go ahead and read the complete article at Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal is a New York-based English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. It is published six days a week by Dow Jones and Company, a division of News Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal. The Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, it has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies as of March 2013, compared with USA Today with 1.7 million. Its main rival in the business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions. The Journal primarily covers American economic and international business topics, and financial news, and issues. Its name derives from Wall Street, the heart of the New York financial district. It has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8th 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper version has won the Pulitzer Prize thirty-six times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of China’s booming economy. In 2011, The Wall Street Journal was ranked number one in Media Power 50 for the twelfth consecutive year. Its editorial pages and columns, run separately from the news pages, are highly influential in American conservative circles.