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Connoisseur’s Guide to Singapore – An Island of Contradictions

Singapore
Written by Aksel Ritenis

Singapore Singapore is a monument to multiculturalism, mixing gleaming high-rises and colonial relics with their Asian charm.

Singapore is unusual but perhaps better, for the strict behaviour codes and norms actually enforced. Let us fill You in: fines for jaywalking, spitting, chewing gum, littering, urinating in a public place. Five hundred dollars is the current penalty which can be imposed, so be on your best behaviour! It has been commented that “an innocent American straying through these parts could go through about four grand in five minutes”.


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