FILE PHOTO: Air-conditioning units dot the facade of the People's Park Complex residential apartment in Singapore's Chinatown February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A ...
Walk with Hantu: Changi, a walking tour organised by Supernatural Confessions, weaves together the history, heritage and urban legends from Singapore’s easternmost edge. Everyone had to leave by 6pm.
As we move towards 2015, a year that will mark Singapore’s 50th anniversary as a nation, a battle over the past of that country is slowly gaining steam. The increasingly frail health of Lee Kuan Yew, ...
Inside the dimly lit underground bunker, 12 military commanders are about to trigger the largest capitulation in British military history. At 9:45 a.m. on February 15, 1942, Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival ...
Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore’s other founders “were skillful in seizing their inheritance of geography and history and deploying it effectively.” Elderly women practice Tai Chi, a Chinese form of ...
The Malayan Magic Circle began in 1935 as a club for the Straits Settlements’ resident magicians — and is now brought to life in History Unveiled. SINGAPORE: A stock exchange brought to its knees.
Nestled off the south coast of Singapore, the resort island of Sentosa will serve as the picturesque backdrop to one of the most highly-anticipated diplomatic events in a decade, as President Donald ...
SINGAPORE – The NUS Singapore History Prize, the richest of its kind in the country, has doubled from $50,000 to $100,000. The prize will also now be open to the arts and multimedia. The Department of ...
Everyone had to leave by 6pm. A thoughtful nod to work-life balance? Or was it to conceal something spookier when this rule was enforced at 35 Hendon Road? The two restored colonial bungalows, which ...