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Nankivell Observatory Nankivell Observatory, named after the late Gary Nankivell, a master optical craftsman, is situated in the Wairarapa, New Zealand. It is to become incorporated into the Matariki Research Observatory, now under development by members of the Phoenix Astronomical Society.
Nanling The Nanling (simplified characters: 南岭, traditional characters 南嶺) are a group of mountain ranges of southern China, running through Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangdong province, and Hunan province. The Nanling mountains separate Central China from South China.
Nannaya Nannaya (నన్నయ in Telugu) (11th century AD) is one of the authors of first known literary work, Andhra Mahabharatam (a translation of Sanskrit Mahabharata) in Telugu. The work was later completed by two other scholars Thikkana and Errana (a.
Nanne Zwiep Rev. Nanne Zwiep (1894-1942) was a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in the town of Enschede who was arrested by the Nazis during the German occupation of the Netherlands and who died in the concentration camp at Dachau near Munich.
Nannerl Notenbuch The Nannerl Notenbuch (or Nannerl's Music Book) is a book in which Leopold Mozart, from 1759 to around 1763, wrote pieces for his daughter, Maria Anna Mozart (known as 'Nannerl'), to learn and play. His son Wolfgang also used the book, and wrote his earliest compositions there.
Nannerl O. Keohane Nannerl Overholser "Nan" Keohane is an American political theorist. She became the eighth president of Duke University on July 1 1993, after serving as President of her alma mater, Wellesley College from 1981 to 1993.
Nanniwan Nanniwan () is a revolutionary song] written in [[1943 with lyrics by communist playwright and poet He Jingzhi (贺敬之). It was made popular by the Communist Party of China and continues to be one of the most recognisable songs in the People's Republic of China.
Nannochoristidae Nannochoristidae is a primitive family of scorpionflies that have many unusual traits. It is a tiny, relict family of about eight species, with members of the genus Nannochorista occurring in New Zealand, southeastern Australia, Tasmania, and Chile and thus probably of Gondwanan origin.
Nannorrhops Nannorrhops ritchiana (Mazari Palm) is the sole species in the genus Nannorrhops in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to southwestern Asia, from the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula east through Iran and Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwestern India, growing at altitudes of up to 1600 m.
Nannup Music Festival The Nannup Music Festival (formerly the Southwest Folk Festival) is a live performance music festival showcasing primarily folk music, but also other styles. The festival is held in the town of Nannup, Western Australia over the Labour Day long weekend in March each year and includes street performance and market stalls as well as a variety of musical performances.
Nannup, Western Australia Nannup (; post code: 6275) is a town and shire in the South West region of Western Australia, approximately 280km south of Perth on the Blackwood River at the crossroads of Vasse Highway and Brockman Highway, linking Nannup to most of the Lower South West's regional centres.
Nanny 911 Nanny 911 is a reality television show in the United States, which airs on FOX (and airs in the UK on ITV2, whose sister company, Granada America, produce the show). It is loosely based on the British television programme Little Angels, in which American families with unmanageable children are reformed by ex-pat British nannies, including one who served for the British Royal Family.
Nanny cam A nanny cam, or nanny camera, is a hidden video camera that has been secretly installed within a common household object. A nanny cam is usually used to secretly monitor and record the activities of home caregivers, hence the name "Nanny Cam" although it can be used to clandestinely record any activity.
Nanny Rutt Nanny Rutt is a character in a cautionary tale associated with Nanny Rutt's well, an artesian spring in Math Wood, near Northorpe, in the parish of Thurlby, Lincolnshire. The story goes that a named girl went into the wood, to the well and disappeared having been taken off by Nanny Rutt.
Nanny state The term nanny state, used especially in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, is a derogatory term for state protectionism, interventionism, or regulation policies as they are perceived as being institutionalized as common practice.
Nano Nano- is a prefix (symbol n) in the SI system of units denoting a factor of 10−9. It is often used in prefixing time and length units encountered in electronics and computer systems, like 30 nanoseconds (symbol ns) and 100 nanometres (nm).
Nano reef A nano reef is a type of Marine aquarium, a reef tank of less than 20 gallons. The exact limit that distinguishes a nano reef from a regular reef is somewhat ill-defined (some claim that anything less than 40 gallons would qualify), but 20 gallons seems to be the generally accepted limit.
Nano-ITX Nano-ITX is a computer motherboard form factor first proposed by VIA Technologies of Taiwan in 2004, and implemented in late 2005. Nano-ITX boards measure 12cm Ă— 12cm, and are fully integrated, very low power consumption motherboards with many uses but targeted at smart digital entertainment devices such as PVRs, set-top boxes, media centers and Car PCs, LCD PCs, and thin devices.
Nano-Nano Pudding Nano-Nano Pudding (ナノナノ・プディング) is a fictional character and one of the heroines of the dating sim/ strategy game series Galaxy Angel. She debuts in Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira (2006), the first of the sequels to the original Galaxy Angel game trilogy.
Nano-optics Nano-optics is the branch of optical engineering which deals with optics at deeply subwavelength length scales. Technologies in the realm of nano-optics include near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), photoassisted scanning tunnelling microscopy, and surface plasmon optics.
Nano-RAM Nano-RAM, is a proprietary computer memory technology from the company Nantero. It is a type of nonvolatile random access memory based on the mechanical position of carbon nanotubes deposited on a chip-like substrate.
Nanoarchaeum Nanoarchaeum equitans is a species of tiny microbe, discovered in 2002 in a hydrothermal vent off the coast of Iceland by Karl Stetter. Since it grows in temperatures approaching boiling, it is considered to be a thermophile.
Nanoart Nanoart is a new art form where micro/nano-sculptures created by artists or scientists through chemical or physical processes are visualized with powerful research tools like a scanning electron microscope and atomic force microscope.
Nanobacterium Nanobacteria are said to be cell-walled microorganisms with a diameter well below the generally accepted lower limit (about 200 nanometres) for bacteria. 200 nm happens to be the size of the smallest object which could be resolved in a standard light microscope.
Nanobatteries Nanobatteries are batteries employing technology at the nanoscale, a scale of miniscule particles that measure less than 100 nanometers or 100 x10-9 meters. Traditional Li-Ion technology uses active materials, such as cobalt-oxide, with particles that range in size between 5 and 20 microns.
Nanobodies Nanobodies are a type of antibodies derived from camels, and are much smaller than traditional antibodies. Standard antibodies are giants by molecular standards, since each one is a conglomerate of two heavy protein chains and two light chains, intricately folded and garnished with elaborate sugars.
Nanocar The nanocar is a molecule designed in 2005 at Rice University in the group of Professor James Tour. Despite the catchy name, the original nanocar does not contain a molecular motor, hence, it is not really a car.
Nanocomputer Nanocomputer is the logical name for a computer smaller than the microcomputer, which is smaller than the minicomputer. (The minicomputer is called "mini" because it was a lot smaller than the original (mainframe) computers.
Nanocrystal A nanocrystal is a crystalline material with dimensions measured in nanometers; a nanoparticle with a structure that is mostly crystalline. These materials are of huge technological interest since many of their electrical and thermodynamic properties show strong size dependence, and can therefore be controlled through careful manufacturing processes.
Nanocrystal display Nanocrystal displays are a new type of experimental display that uses robotic muscles to control small prisms that have white light shining through them. As the white light is split by the prisms, colour will be generated on a screen.
Nanocrystalline silicon Nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si) - an allotropic form of silicon - is similar to amorphous silicon (a-Si), in that it has an amorphous phase. Where they differ, however, is that nc-Si has small grains of crystalline silicon within the amorphous phase.
Nanoelectrochemistry Nanoelectrochemistry is a branch of electrochemistry that investigates the electrical and electrochemical properties of materials at the nanometer size regime. Nanoelectrochemistry plays significant role in the fabrication of various sensors, and devices for detecting molecules at very low concentrations.
Nanoelectromechanical systems NEMS or nanoelectromechanical systems are similar to MEMS but smaller. They hold promise to revolutionize abilities to measure small displacements and forces at a molecular scale, and are related to nanotechnology.
Nanoelectronics Nanoelectronics refer to the use of nanotechnology on electronic components, especially transistors. Although the term nanotechnology is generally defined as utilizing technology less than 100nm in size, nanoelectronics often refer to transistor devices that are so small that inter-atomic interactions and quantum mechanical properties need to be studied extensively.
Nanoethics Nanoethics concerns the ethical and social issues associated with developments in nanotechnology, a science which encompass several fields of science and engineering, including biology, chemistry, computing, and materials science. Nanotechnology refers to the manipulation of very small-scale matter – a nanometer is one billionth of a meter, and nanotechnology is generally used to mean work on matter at 100 nanometers and smaller.
Nanofactory A nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (resembling molecular assemblers, or industrial robot arms) would combine reactive molecules via mechanosynthesis to build larger atomically precise parts. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products.
Nanofiction Nanofiction is a term coined by role-playing game designer R. Sean Borgstrom to describe the fictitious quotes (that is, quotes which are "excerpted" from a non-existent source) which appear in the margins of the role-playing game, Nobilis.
Nanofiltration Nanofiltration is a relatively recent membrane process used most often with low TDS waters such as surface water and fresh groundwater, with the purpose of softening (polyvalent cation removal) and removal of disinfection by-product precursors such as natural organic matter and synthetic organic matter
Nanoha Takamachi is the main and title character of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series and also appears in Triangle Heart. To use the abbreviated forms of the series, Minami Hokuto plays her in Toraha, Yukari Tamura in Nanoha.
Nanoindentation Indentation tests, sometimes called hardness tests, are perhaps the most commonly applied means of testing the mechanical properties of materials. The technique has its origins in the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, in which materials are ranked according to what they can scratch and are, in turn, scratched by.
Nanokernel In computer science, a nanokernel is a very minimalist operating system kernel. The nanokernel represents the closest hardware abstraction layer of the operating system by interfacing the CPU, managing interrupts and interacting with the MMU.
Nanolithography Nanolithography — or lithography at the nanometer scale — refers to the fabrication of nanometer-scale structures, meaning patterns with at least one lateral dimension between the size of an individual atom and approximately 100 nm. Nanolithography is used during the fabrication of leading-edge semiconductor integrated circuits or nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).
Nanomanufacturing Nanomanufacturing is used to describe either the production of nano scaled materials, which can be powders or fluids, or describe the manufacturing of parts "button up" from nanoscaled materials or "top down" in smallest steps for high precison by several technologis like laser ablation, etching and others. The term is widely used, e.
Nanomaterial based catalyst Nanomaterial-based catalysts are usually heterogeneous catalysts broken up into nanoparticles in order to speed up the catalytic process. The extremely small size of the particles maximizes the surface area exposed to the reactant, allowing more reactions to occur at the same time, thus speeding up the process.
Nanomedicine Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology and related research. It covers areas such as nanoparticle drug delivery and possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology (MNT) and nanovaccinology.
Nanomedicine (book) Nanomedicine is a technical book series by Robert Freitas. It is the first thorough analysis of possible applications of MNT to nanomedicine and analyzes a wide range of possible nanotechnology-based medical devices, and explains the relevant science behind their design.
Nanomorph A nanomorph, term arguably first coined by SF writer David Pulver in 1986's GURPS Robots, is a fictional robot entirely made of nanomachines. Its brain is distributed throughout its whole body, which also acts as an all-around sensor, hence making it impossible to surprise as long as the target is on line of sight.
Nanopin film Nanopin film is an experimental material in nanotechnology developed in 2005 with unusual superhydrophobic properties . A droplet of water makes contact with the surface of this film and forms an almost perfect sphere with a contact angle of 178°.
Nanorex Nanorex, Inc., headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and founded in 2004 by Mark Sims, is a software company currently developing a computer-aided design program for molecular nanotechnology, NanoEngineer-1.
Nanorobotics Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometre (10-9 metres). More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the still largely theoretical nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots.
Nanos Valaoritis Nanos Valaoritis is one of the most distinguished writers in Greece today. He has been widely published as a poet, novelist and playwright since 1939, and his correspondence with George Seferis (Allilographia 1945-1968, Ypsilon, Athens 2004) has been a bestseller.
Nanostray Nanostray is a vertical scrolling shooter video game for the Nintendo DS, Similar to many games in the genre, the user takes control of a futuristic spacecraft against a seemingly endless horde of enemies. It is very similar to the Game Boy Advance games, Iridion 3D and Iridion II (the Mainframe boss makes a cameo as the final boss) a lot like Lunar Knights is to the Boktai series.
Nanostray 2 Nanostray 2 is an upcoming scrolling shooter video game for the Nintendo DS and will be the sequel to its original game, Nanostray. It is currently under development and is scheduled to be released some time in 2007.
Nanosyntax Nanosyntax is a term used to describe an approach to Syntax in which Syntactic Trees are built up out of a large number of elements. Each morpheme may correspond to several such elements, which do not have to form a subtree.
Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is a field of applied science and technology covering a broad range of topics. The main unifying theme is the control of matter on a scale smaller than one micrometre, as well as the fabrication of devices on this same length scale.
Nanotechnology education Nanotechnology education is being offered by more and more universities around the world, especially in Australia and Europe. The first program in nanotechnolgy was offered as an option in the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program.
Nanotechnology Research Center The Nanotechnology Research Center (NRC) will be part of the Georgia Institute of Technology and will be constructed on the site of the Electronics Research Building, the former home of GTRI's Information Technology & Telecommunications Laboratory (ITTL). The NRC will be the largest cleanroom laboratory in the Southeast United States.
Nanotomography Nanotomography, much like its related modalities tomography and microtomography, uses x-rays to create cross-sections from a 3D-object that later can be used to recreate a virtual model without destroying the original model. The term nano is used to indicate that the pixel sizes of the cross-sections are in the nanometer range
Nanovid microscopy Nanovid microscopy, from “nanometer video-enhanced microscopy”, is a microscopic technique aimed at visualizing colloidal gold particles of 20-40 nm diameter (nanogold, immunogold) as dynamic markers at the light microscopic level. The nanogold particles as such are smaller than the diffraction limit of light, but can be visualized by using Video-Enhanced Differential Interference Contrast (VEDIC).
Nanowire A nanowire is a wire of dimensions of the order of a nanometer (10−9 meters). Alternatively, nanowires can be defined as structures that have a lateral size constrained to tens of nanometers or less and an unconstrained longitudinal size.
Nanpantan Nanpantan is a settlement in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is in the south-west of the town of Loughborough, but the village proper is separated from the main built up area of Loughborough.
Nanpaya Temple The Nanpaya Temple (literally "palace temple") is a Hindu temple located in Myinkaba (a village south of Bagan) in Myanmar. The temple is adjacent to the Manuha Temple and was built by captive Mon King Manuha.
Nanping Nanping () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Ningde City to the east, Sanming City to the south, and the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to the north and west respectively.
Nansen (lunar crater) Nansen is an old lunar crater along the northern limb of the Moon, on the eastern side of the north pole. This feature is viewed from the edge from the Earth, and it must be observed from orbit to see much detail.
Nansen bottle A Nansen bottle is a device for obtaining samples of seawater at a specific depth. It was designed in 1910 by the early 20th-century explorer and oceanographer Fridtjof Nansen and further developed by Shale Niskin.
Nansen passport Nansen passports were internationally recognized identity cards first issued by the League of Nations to stateless refugees. Designed in 1922 by Fridtjof Nansen, in 1942 they were honored by governments in 52 countries and were the first refugee travel documents.
Nansen Refugee Award The Nansen Refugee Award formerly known as the Nansen Medal is given annually by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to individuals or groups in recognition of outstanding service to the cause of refugees.
Nanshiungosaurus Nanshiungosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur, and like other members of that infraorder, the animals of this genus probably possessed large claws, but since nothing of the skull, tail, ribs or limbs have been found, analysis has focused solely on the vertebrae and pelvis. The genus contains 2 species, both found in Late Cretaceous-age rocks in China.
Nansō Satomi Hakkenden Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (南總里見八犬傳 or using simplified kanji, 南総里見八犬伝) is a Japanese 106 volume epic novel by Kyokutei Bakin. Written over a period of nearly thirty years and published from 1814 to 1842, Bakin had gone blind before finishing the tale, and the final parts were dictated to his daughter-in-law Michi to be transcribed.
Nansook Hong Nansook Hong (born 1966), was hand-picked by Sun Myung Moon to be the wife of Hyo Jin Moon, his first son by "True Mother" Hakja Han Moon; Hyo Jin Moon was the apparent next-generation successor at the time. Nansook Hong was 15 and Hyo Jin Moon was 19 when they were married in New York.
Nansy Stergiopoulou Nansy Stergiopoulou (Νάνσυ Στεργιοπούλου in Greek) born on (July 14, 1984 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek singer and former member of girl band Hi-5. Her family originally comes from the Serres region of northern Greece.
Nant Conway Rural District Nant Conway was a rural district in the administrative county of Caernarvonshire from 1934 to 1974. The district was formed by a County Review Order, combining the areas of Geirionydd Rural District with most of Conway Rural District and part of Ogwen Rural District.
Nant Cynnyd The Nant y Cynnyd is a small river in North Wales, starting near the Pen-y-Gwryd hotel near Capel Curig. The Ordnance Survey map is not completely specific, but the river grows into Afon Glaslyn and into Llyn Gwynant.
Nant Gwynant The Nant Gwynant is a mountain pass in Snowdonia, North Wales. The A498 road descends 600 feet in about two miles from the start of the pass at Pen-y-Gwryd, it follows the Nant Cynnyd, the Afon Glaslyn and into Llyn Gwynant, then alonside the Nant Gwynant river to Llyn Dinas and passing below Dinas Emrys to Beddgelert.
Nant y Moch Nant-y-Moch (in English = the pig stream,) is the name of a small river in north Ceredigion which has given its name to a 66.8 square kilometre reservoir in the Cambrian Mountains, Wales which flooded the valley of the eponymous stream.
Nantahala River The Nantahala River is a river in western North Carolina in the United States, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Some have said that the word "Nantahala" comes from the phrase "Land of the Noonday sun" in Cherokee.
Nantau Nantau or Nam Tau (南頭) is an area at the back of Nantau Peninsula in Kwangtung, China. It was formerly a walled city facing Tai Shan Bay for coastal defense in Bao'an County and now is the capital city of the Nanshan District in Shenzhen.
Nantero Nantero is a technology company based in Woburn, Massachusetts dedicated to developing a new form of non-volatile RAM, which they call Nano-RAM. It was founded in 2000 by Greg Schmergel, Thomas Rueckes, and Brent M.
Nanticoke Generating Station The Nanticoke Generating Station supplies power to the southern area of Ontario from its base in Nanticoke, Ontario in the county of Haldimand. It generates electric power for home, business, industrial, agricultural, and institutional uses.
Nanticoke Indian Tribe The Nanticoke Indian Tribe is a Native American tribe from Sussex County, Delaware comprising the Nanticoke River watershed which empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The area has been home to an indigenous population of Delaware, or Lenni Lenape indians since pre European times.
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape People (also known as Nanticoke Lenape Indians) are a tribal confederation of the core families of the Nanticoke of the Delmarva Peninsula and the Lenni-Lenape of Southern New Jersey and Northern Delaware. The history of the tribe in its homeland goes back over 12,000 years.
Nanticoke River The Nanticoke River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It rises in southern Kent County, Delaware, flows through Sussex County, Delaware, and forms the boundary between Dorchester County, Maryland and Wicomico County, Maryland.
Nanticoke, Ontario Nanticoke is a small village in Haldimand County, Ontario that supplies electric energy to southern Ontario through its Nanticoke Generating Station. Nanticoke is surrounded by the Nanticoke Industrial Park which is home to the Esso Refinery, Stelco Lake Erie Works and the Nanticoke Generating Station.
Nantie Hayward Mornantau Hayward (born March 6, 1977 in Uitenhage) is a South African cricketer. He is a right-arm fast bowler, who, according to Peter Robinson, "has genuine pace, the ability to get bounce and abundant energy".
Nantlle Ridge The Nantlle Ridge is the name given to a small range of hills in Snowdonia, north Wales which runs south-west from the village of Rhyd Ddu for a distance of about 9 kilometres, ending above Talysarn and Nebo in the Nantlle Valley.
Nantong Nantong (; former names: Nan-t'ung, Nantung, Tungzhou, or Tungchow) is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River near the river mouth, Nantong is a vital river port bordering Yancheng to the north, Taizhou to the west, Suzhou to the south across the river, and the East China Sea to the east.
Nantucket Blob The Nantucket Blob was an unidentified mass (globster) that washed ashore on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, sometime during November 1996. Analysis of samples in 2004 suggests that the Nantucket Blob was a large mass of adipose tissue from a whale.
Nantucket Public Radio Nantucket Public Radio operates three radio stations in the Cape and Islands area of Massachusetts. Their primary station, WNCK, simulcasts programming from Boston’s WGBH-FM, while two translator stations in Harwichport (W264BA, 100.
Nantucket Reds Nantucket Reds™ are a style of pants by Murray's Toggery Shop of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Originally adopted from the uniforms of the New York Yacht Club, Nantucket Reds are distinctive in that they fade to a light pink as they age.
Nantucket, Massachusetts Nantucket is an island 30 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts and the coextensive Nantucket County, which cover all three islands.
Nantucket, Nova Scotia Nantucket is a upper middle income residential neighbourhood in the Woodlawn area in the community of Dartmouth within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia. The area was built in early 1970s across Portland Street (Nova Scotia Route 207) from Portland Estates.
Nanuet, New York Nanuet is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Rockland County, New York, 19 miles north of Manhattan, and 2 miles north of the Jersey border. Nanuet is located between West Nyack, New York and Spring Valley, New York to the east and west, respectively, and Pearl River, New York and New City, New York to the south and north, respectively.
Nanuchka class corvette The Nanuchka class was the Nato reporting name for a series of corvettes or small missile ships built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1969 and 1981. The Soviet designation was Project 1234 Ovod (Gadfly) Rocket Cutter.
Nanuya Levu Nanuya Levu (IPA: []) is a privately owned island of the Yasawa Group in Fiji and the site of the Turtle Island Resort, a sustainable luxury resort and also the locale for the romance adventure film The Blue Lagoon (1980).
Nanxi Nanxi (or Nan-hsi) is an early form of Chinese drama, developed from ancient traditions of mime, singing, and dancing during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). The name means literally "Southern drama", and the form originated in the area around Wenzhou in Southern China.
Nanyan Temple Perching on the South Cliff, Nanyan Temple (Nanyan gong) is known as the place where Emperor Zhen Wu found Taoism and flew to heaven. The whole structure - hall-pillars, beams, arches, gates and windows - is created out of rock.
Nanyang (geographical region) Nanyang () is the Chinese name for the geographical region south of China, particularly Southeast Asia. Literally meaning "Southern Ocean", it came into common usage in self-reference to the large ethnic Chinese migrant population in Southeast Asia, to be more precise, in Singapore and Malaysia.
Nanyang Commercial Bank Nanyang Commercial Bank (南洋商業銀行) is a bank based in Hong Kong and a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of China (Hong Kong), with 41 branches. NCB primarily focuses on corporate customers, in particular trading companies.
Nanyang Girls' High School Nanyang Girls' High School (NYGH) is a premier all-girls secondary school in Singapore. It participates in the Integrated Programme with Hwa Chong Institution (formed by the merger of Hwa Chong Junior College and The Chinese High School) under the Hwa Chong Affiliate Programme.
Nanyang Primary School Nanyang Primary School is a primary school in Singapore, situated at 52 King's Road in Bukit Timah (District 10) which is a private housing district near Coronation Plaza. The current principal is Heng Boey Hong.

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