#4 - Singapore

• In the near future it will be possible to embed solar cells in flexible materials. Coca Cola is among the companies most interested in this innovation. They want to make a can that will power itself. The can will then use this electricity either to cool itself or to power a moving digital image on the can’s front, similar to those on large billboards.
• Enemy combatants in Kashmir killed 72 Indian soldiers during the last year. More than 100 more died by taking their own life, while fellow soldiers killed 30. [New Straight Times, 18th January.]
• The total casualty figures for nations fighting in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign were Turkey (86,692), Britain (21,255), France (9,798), Australia (8,709), New Zealand, (2,701), and India (1,358). [Auckland Museum.]
• A proportion of population, more New Zealanders fought in the Great War than any other allied nation. 1 in 5 New Zealand males signed up to fight. [Auckland Museum.]
• There are 39 million sheep, and only 4 million people, in New Zealand.
• Known for its authoritarian system of justice, Singapore jails 350 people per 100,000 of its population, the 21st highest in the world. This is less than half the rate of the USA, which comfortably leads the world in incarceration rates per capita, with 737 jails per 100,000. India jails just 30, among the world’s lowest. [ICPS Global Prison Population Rates Survey.]