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Pull Factors (Batter Trade & Business opportuities (Arab Traders (as a…
Pull Factors
Batter Trade & Business opportuities
Arab Traders
as a free port
Malay Sumatra and Java in their ships to escape heavy customs duties
19th century, easier with steamship travel
Bugis traders in Singapore also attracted Arab
Bugis close ties with the Arab trade networks in Southeast Asia
Bugis Traders
as a free port
beginning of the 20th century, several hundred Bugis traders and their families had moved to Singapore
the dutch took control of the trade routes
dutch imposed taxes on traders
British Agency Houses
set up agency
helped British sell their goods to other services
export goods brought by traders from China, India and the Malay Archipelago and London and other parts of Europe
Boustead &Company
Guthrie & Company -
A.L. Johnston & Company
Paterson, Simons & Co.
The straits born Chinese traders
location as a convenient meeting point for traders
business opportunities
to set up their own trading houses in Singapore.
translate for British
Better job prospects
new and growing trading settlement
the british needed to develop infrastructure
support the increase in activities at the port and to provide for the growing population
poorer immigrants
receive higher wages
return home after they earned enough money
The javanese and the Baweanese
higher wages
1920s wages in Java were extremely low
writers and Javanese publishers
print and write their news and stories without being restricted by Dutch