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34 unusual facts about SINGAPORE


Arbos – Company for Music and Theatre

„The Stories about Voyages“ a music theatre trilogy „The Singing of The Fools about Europe“, „The Concert of Birds“ and „UROBOS : Project Time“ by Dževad Karahasan and Herbert Gantschacher produced and presented in Odessa (Ukrainia), Prague, Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), Berlin, Erfurt, Leipzig (Germany), Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Hallein (Austria) and Singapore (Singapore Arts Festival 2001).

Archipelago Brewery

The Archipelago Brewery was established in 1931 and became the first commercial brewery in Singapore, started by Becks.

CDAC

Chinese Development Assistance Council, a self-help and non-profit organization set up by the Chinese community in Singapore to help the lower-income group and academically-weak students.

Chai Yee Wei

Chai was educated at Catholic High School and Catholic Junior College.

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Tommy Koh et al. (2006), Singapore: The Encyclopedia, Editions Didier Millet and National Heritage Board, ISBN 981-4155-63-2

Goh Sin Tub

When the Japanese began bombing Singapore at the early stage of their invasion, the Goh family hid under a staircase at the back of their house at Emerald Hill.

Indonesia–Singapore border

The solving of the sovereignty dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks and South Ledge has also resulted in Malaysia and Singapore starting technical negotiations to determine their common border, which is necessary before the tripoints can be determined.

Jaishree Misra

Most recently, she was invited by the Arts House in Singapore to conduct creative writing workshops for adults and schoolchildren.

Japanese escort ship Kanawa

She was then taken by the British and scrapped in 1947 at Singapore.

Majestic Theatre

The Majestic, Singapore, a historic building and former theatre in Chinatown, Singapore

Mani the parakeet

It has been an astrologer 'assistant' to M. Muniyappan since 2005, working from his Little India fortune-telling shop along Serangoon Road.

Marymount MRT Station

Before the future Upper Thomson opens in 2020, this station is the nearest MRT station within the Thomson area.

MECOMS

Since 2007, the product has been sold internationally and it is now being used by utilities in Denmark, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, India and Singapore.

Michael Miles

He then travelled to Australia, before moving on to Singapore as a newsreader, leaving only days before the island was invaded by the Japanese Army during the Second World War.

Ng Swee Hong

Ng Swee Hong moved to Singapore in 1963 where he amalgamated interests that ranged from trading rice and other commodities and chartering out cargo vessels to running a shrimp and fish business in Taiwan.

Padroado

An example was the island-state of Singapore, where the Portuguese mission, under the Padroado, operated Saint Joseph's Church independently of the Roman Catholic Mission and later the Archdiocese of Singapore.

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School

Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School (Singapore) is split into two sections (the primary school and the secondary school).

Police Intelligence Department

Its primary purpose is to collate and analyse information obtained from the various departments of the SPF, as well as other sources, to support law enforcement activities in Singapore.

Pondok Pesantren Minhaajurrosyidiin Jakarta

Santriwan-santriwati from all over Indonesia and from abroad, from Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Suriname and Vietnam.

Presbyterian High School

It has affiliations with Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, Saint Andrew's Junior College, Ang Mo Kio Presbyterian Church and Bethel Presbyterian Church.

Prevalence of teenage pregnancy

In South Korea and Singapore, marriage before age 20 has all but disappeared, and, although the occurrence of sexual intercourse before marriage has risen, rates of adolescent childbearing are low at 4 to 8 per 1000.

Primary School Leaving Examination

Some can go to other schools such as Singapore Sports School, NUS High School of Mathematics and Science or School of the Arts and School of Science and Technology.

Rosiah Chik

However, she started her career seriously son after the divorce which eventually made her to join the Cathay Keris in Singapore as a backup singer.

Sentosa Monorail

In 1987, Ferry Terminal Monorail Station began operations when the Sentosa Ferry Terminal opened that year, likewise, in 1991, Underwater World Monorail Station commenced operations when Underwater World opened that year.

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Although much of the track was subsequently dismantled, it is believed that the dismantling process was not completed due to an unknown reason, as a section of track near the Underwater World attraction was spotted heading into the adjacent forest, the track was left to the hands of nature, with vines and leaves taking over the remaining structure.

Singapore Naval Base

The Singapore Naval Base (as Her/His Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Singapore or HMS Sembawang), situated in Sembawang at the northern tip of Singapore, was a Royal Navy Shore establishment as well as being a cornerstone of British Defence policy (the Singapore strategy) in the Far East between the World Wars.

Smiling Kelly

Smiling Kelly is the third album released by Singaporean singer Kelly Poon.

Tanjong Pagar MRT Station

The station caters to people, especially businessmen, working in the Shenton Way and Robinson Road area, and residents.

The Making of Malaysia

The Making of Malaysia: Britain, the 'Grand Design', Decolonisation and Malaysia is a 2005 book by Professor Anthony John Stockwell which examines the British end of empire policy relating to the decolonization of North Borneo, Sarawak, Brunei and Singapore on the way to the formation of the new federation of Malaysia during the 1960s.

Tutoring agency

In Singapore, although tutor registration is generally free of charge, tutors will have to pay a percentage of his or her first month's tuition fee, usually fifty per cent, to the tuition agency as commission for referring them to students.

Ursula Hall

Residents of Ursula Hall welcomes undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities, religions and cultures—residents are from dozens of countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States.

Volunteer Special Constabulary

The VSC officers are imbued with equal powers of a regular police officer to enforce law and order in Singapore.

William McMinn

Following the desertion of a majority of the party to Singapore, McMinn and 5 others purchased a 23-foot open boat which they named the Forlorn Hope and sailed it 2000 miles to Champion Bay, Geraldton, Western Australia.

Worldwide Partners

Al Moffatt is President/CEO, Lisa Kettman-Kervinen is Director of EMEA operations out of Finland, and Aw Tai Heng is Director of Asia Pacific operations out of Singapore.


Andrew Caldecott

In Singapore, Caldecott Hill, Caldecott Close, Caldecott MRT Station and Andrew Road are named after him, and Olive Road is named after his first wife.

Australian International School Singapore

The school was officially opened by then Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, John Anderson and Singapore's then Acting Minister for Education, Tharman Shanmugaratnam.

Australian Yorkshire

The pigs sold in Singapore were fed barley grains and soy beans, rather than whey powder, as the latter "gives the meat a milky taste that Singaporeans don't take well to".

Baby Vox Re.V

KBS has reported that member Myung Sa Rang left the group in order to continue school in Singapore and will be there for at least one year.

Bean Brothers

In 1882 he set up a trial sugar plantation on Cox's Peninsula (later Cox Peninsula) across Darwin Harbour from Port Darwin, and organised the hire of 2,000 Singapore Chinese labourers to work the field at ₤1 per week.

Biarlah Rahsia

Siti premiered "Biarlah Rahsia" at the Anugerah Planet Muzik (a regional award show) in 2006 which was aired live from Singapore.

Calvin Kingsley

While abroad, Bishop Kingsley wrote home, describing Japan, Shaghi, Pekin, Foo Chow, Calcutta, Singapore, Madras, Benares, Lucknow, and Bareilly.

Canagasabai Kunalan

Kunalan also made a cameo appearance in the music video for one of the three 2010 Summer Youth Olympics cheer songs, You Are The One Singapore, alongside former athlete Ang Peng Siong and swimmer Tao Li.

Chew Men Leong

He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Public Utilities Board, Singapore's national water agency.

Chin Liew Ten

Before taking up his appointments at the National University of Singapore, he was Professor of Philosophy (Personal Chair) and Acting Head of the School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Bioethics at Monash University, Australia.

Chinatown, Singapore

Trengganu Street, described as "the Piccadilly of Chinese Singapore" in the past, now forms the heart of the tourist belt in Chinatown.

Chinese Chess Association

The Chinese Chess Association, in 1993, received an endowment fund from Singapore businessman Mr. Lee Seng Tee who donated about US $1.5 million.

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Collapse of the Hotel New World

On 27 September 2005, Seconds From Disaster portrayed the disaster in the episode "Hotel Collapse Singapore".

Common Services Tunnel

The Singapore government is pumping in nearly S$2 billion (about US$1.2 billion) to build the infrastructural base for Marina Bay, which also includes the Marina Barrage, a Rapid Transit System and the new Marina Promenade and Double Helix Bridge.

DeviantArt

Starting May 13, 2009, deviantArt embarked on a world tour, visiting cities around the world, including Sydney, Singapore, Warsaw, Istanbul, Berlin, Paris, London, New York City, Toronto and Los Angeles.

Genting Singapore PLC

A company of the Genting Group, Genting Singapore PLC was named Asiamoney’s Best Managed Companies 2010 (Large-Cap Corporate of the Year in Singapore).

Graham Lintott

He completed the Basic Sioux Helicopter Course and the Iroquois Course, before completing tours with No. 3 Squadron RNZAF and RNZAF Support Unit Singapore.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Hat Yai

Hat Yai International Airport is located 9 km from downtown, serving destinations throughout Thailand and connecting the city to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

History of Bandung

Sultan Hamid II was arrested, but Capt. Westerling managed to escape to Singapore.

Hitman in the City

Other sponsors included Acer, Institute Estetica De Beaute, Seksun Precision Engineering, Great World City, Fits Clothing, National Apparel and the now-defunct Singapore branch of Au Bon Pain.

Iain Macintosh

Iain Macintosh (born 1978) is a UK sports journalist and author who writes for the Singapore daily The New Paper.

Jeremy Monteiro

On March 11, 2005, as part of the inaugural Mosaic Music Festival, he performed at the Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay in Singapore, with his international trio of Shawn Kelley and Belinda Moody, Singaporean singers Claressa Monteiro, Jacintha Abisheganaden, Anne Weerapass and Rani Singam, together with jazz legend James Moody, in a concert to commemorate Moody's 80th birthday.

Karen Bowerman

In 2007 she was one of just six national journalists to be offered a seat on the inaugural flight of the Airbus A380 superjumbo from Singapore to Sydney, Australia.

Lee Hsien Yang

Like his brother Lee Hsien Loong (the current Prime Minister of Singapore), Lee was awarded the President's Scholarship and the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship by the Public Service Commission (Singapore) after finishing his secondary education at Catholic High School and pre-university education at National Junior College.

Mariam Baharum

Baharum's career reached its zenith during the 1950s as an actress signed to Malay Films Production Studio in Jalan Ampas, Singapore.

Michael Backman

But shortly after Singapore’s Minister for Information Lee Boon Yang accused Backman in a speech at a Singapore Press Club luncheon at Raffles Hotel of seeking to intervene in Singapore’s domestic politics.

One-north MRT Station

The station serves the hub for the existing Biopolis and Fusionopolis, and the Singapore campus of INSEAD, the international business school, coming up around the station.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Otak

Otak-otak, a fish cake eaten throughout Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia

Paul Mulders

As a free agent in July 2013, Mulders lent his services to the Global FC team to beef their campaign for the Singapore Cup.

Pearry Teo

Pearry Reginald Teo Zhang Pingli (born 23 July 1978), film director/producer, is the first Singaporean movie director to make a Hollywood film.

People's Action Party–United Malays National Organisation relations

Such issues catalysed the impending secession: On 7 August 1965, Tunku Abdul Rahman announced to the Malaysian Parliament in Kuala Lumpur that the Parliament should vote yes on the resolution to have Singapore to leave the Federation, choosing to "sever all ties with a State Government that showed no measure of loyalty to its Central Government" as opposed to the undesirable method of suppressing the PAP for its actions.

Playware Studios

The first version was built for Canberra Primary School for the purpose of supporting learning through play, one of the core thrusts of the school's FutureSchool@Singapore programme.

Qimonda

Qimonda has other strategic alliances with China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Venture Co., Ltd., SMIC, Winbond Electronics Corporation, IBM, Altis, AMD (for ATI graphics products), Toppan Photomasks, Spansion, and Sandisk.

Queen's Debating Union

In 2004, Kevin Massie and Michael Saposnik were semi-finalists at the WUDC hosted by Nanyang University in Singapore.

Ramon Tikaram

Born in Singapore, Tikaram is the son of Fijian-Indian British Army soldier Pramod Tikaram and Sarawakian mother Fatimah Rohani.

Revere Bell

The Revere Bell was a gift by Mrs. Maria Revere Balestier, daughter of Paul Revere and wife of the first American Consul to Singapore, Joseph Balestier.

Seni gayong

In 1942 during the Japanese Occupation, Meor Abdul Rahman taught seni gayong publicly in Sudong island, Singapore when the locals feared an attack by the Japanese.

Singapore Labour Foundation

Its aims are to improve the welfare of union members and to further the development of trade unions in Singapore.

Singapore national under-19 football team

The under-19 football team was formed to represent Singapore in the AFF U-19 Youth Championship since 2001. The squad finished 3rd and won Bronze in the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games.

Stephen Riady

# Strategic Investment Entrepreneur of the Year in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Singapore 2007

Sungei Road

The factory was the first ice-making plant in Singapore using large compressors manufactured mainly from Carrier and York corporations.

TANLA

Located in 9 countries such as India, Singapore, London, Colombo, Dubai etc., Tanla employees more than 300 telecom professionals and is listed in BSE and NSE in India.

The Chinese High School Clock Tower Building

The Chinese High School Clock Tower Building in Singapore is situated in what is now the campus of the integrated Hwa Chong Institution after the merger of The Chinese High School with Hwa Chong Junior College on 1 January 2005.

Thomas Braddell

On 10 June 1859 he was called at Gray's Inn ; in 1862 he resigned the Company's service and went to Singapore, where he commenced practice in partnership with Mr. Abraham Logan, as Logan and Braddell.

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.

Willis Hall

During idle hours there, he wrote plays for Chinese children that were later broadcast on Radio Malaya and designed sets for Singapore Little Theatre.