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Chronicles of Old Singapore | The Islanders Adam & Fawzi – St. John's & Lazarus Part 2
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Islanders Adam Giman and Fawzi Nasir recount their sadness at leaving St. John’s and Lazarus Islands in the 1…
1 year, 4 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Dilip Doshi – Gujaratis of Singapore, Market Street Part 1
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Dilip Doshi recalls how his father Panachand came to Singapore and later established a trading firm at Market…
1 year, 4 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Quek Siow Kai – A Chinese-Ed. Engineer in Alabama Part 2
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. After Texas Instruments, Quek Siow Kai joined the famed German company, Motoren- und Turbinen-Union. Going ba…
1 year, 4 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | The Islanders Adam & Fawzi – St. John's & Lazarus Part 1
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Islanders Adam Giman and Fawzi Nasir talk about the two islands of their childhood in the ‘50s to ‘70s – Pula…
1 year, 4 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Jeffrey Eng – Teochew Merchant Rd, Shophouses & Eng Tiang Huat Part 2
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Jeffrey Eng remembers growing up in a shophouse, which was not only a house but a business premises. For a lo…
1 year, 4 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Quek Siow Kai – A Chinese-Ed. Engineer in Alabama Part 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Quek Siow Kai felt he had hit a technician’s glass ceiling by the mid-1980s; to break it, he obtained an engi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Quek Siow Kai – Shifts, Ships, Sifus & Spyros Part 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Quek Siow Kai joined Gul Engineering and Singapore’s growing marine industry. He learned a lot there, but dec…
1 year, 5 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Bernard Tan – Computer Geek & Historian Part 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Professor Bernard T.G. Tan recounts how the National Computer Board, est. in 1981, encouraged computerisation…
1 year, 5 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Jeffrey Eng – Teochew Merchant Rd, Shophouses & Eng Tiang Huat Part 1
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Jeffrey Eng is the 3rd generation owner of Eng Tiang Huat, a shop selling traditional Chinese cultural goods …
1 year, 5 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Quek Siow Kai – Shifts, Ships, Sifus & Spyros Part 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Quek Siow Kai relates his story as one of Singapore’s Technical Generation in the 1970s. He struggled in the …
1 year, 6 months ago