SINGAPORE has been a major trading nation despite having no significant natural resources of its own. From its early days as an outpost of the Sumatran Srivijaya Empire ("Temasek" or "seatown") to becoming a major port of call between Europe and East Asia for ships plying their trade in the 1800s, its excellent harbour, the free trade status conferred on it by its founder, Stamford Raffles, and the development of rubber planting had set the course for Singapore to become a major export-import centre.
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