The 108-acre city-state has its own judicial system, distinct from the Italian judicial system.
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The latest budget for the city-state aims to redistribute by hiking the general sales tax.
These ripples are part of Singapore's transformation from a micro-managed melting pot into a cosmopolitan city-state.
The island city-state sits at the mouth of the strategically vital Strait of Malacca.
But analysts say the match-fixing allegations could call the city-state's hard-won reputation into question.
It has already proved that combining business with tourism can be a successful formula for a city-state.
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As a result of the investigation, Italian authorities have pressured the city-state to enforce EU financial regulations and boost transparency.
Bremen, a city-state, wants a climate in which such pronouncements are too obvious to be worth making.
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As a classicist, it actually reminded me a lot of the state cults of many a Greek city-state.
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Singapore's government has in recent years been praised for extending generous support to the city-state's burgeoning artistic community.
Empire was the tiny Croatian city-state of Raguso now known as Dubrovnik.
In 2007, Bernie Ecclestone decided that the city-state would be added to the illustrious Formula One World Championship calendar.
The toys of all these millionaires and billionaires are visible across the city-state.
Both won parliament seats in the city-state's latest general election on 7 May.
Now that power is seeping away from Rome to Brussels, many Venetians would rather live in an independent city-state.
But smaller countries in Europe and one Asian city-state is an even better, easier place to set up shop.
Singapore, a city-state with just over five million people, was an economic backwater when it became fully independent in 1965.
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The budget comes amid rising concern among locals over the growth in the number of foreign workers in the city-state.
Seagate -- until recently the city-state's biggest private-sector employer -- recently announced it was shedding 1, 600 more jobs in Singapore.
Analysts say that Singapore tends to limit bank entrants in the city-state given its a small market and relatively smaller population.
In an election on September 23rd in the city-state of Hamburg, their vote slumped by over a third to barely 8%.
Neither Istithmar nor the city-state's profitable port operator DP World, which Bin Sulayem also chairs, are paying for the project, he said.
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The city-state has tried to become an Internet-technology hub, with limited success.
The city-state boasts low corruption and one of the world's busiest ports.
Mr. Chan said he hopes the government will like it, given the importance and urgency of the issue of fertility in the city-state.
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If the cross-straits development materializes, this region would both expand the economic footprint of the predominately Chinese city-state and its largely Muslim neighbor.
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Private-housing prices in the city-state's core central region rose 0.6% in the second quarter, compared with a 0.6% fall in the January-April period.
The three sovereign states of Israel, Palestine and the city-state of Jerusalem would elect their own legislatures and representatives to a federal parliament.
But the Gulf's most dynamic and diverse economy, and the model that its neighbours increasingly turn to, is the tiny city-state of Dubai.
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