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Chronicles of Old Singapore | Koh Boon Long – Education in Singapore Ep3: Normal (Technical)
Episode 3
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Koh Boon Long takes a critical look at Religious Knowledge in Singapore schools in the 1980s. He also recalls…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Koh Boon Long – Education in Singapore Ep2: Streaming’s Effects
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Koh Boon Long discusses the streaming policy in 1980 and its drastic effects on students, teachers and societ…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Koh Boon Long – Education in Singapore Ep1: Chalkboard Teaching, 1970s
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Koh Boon Long notes that education changed greatly after Singapore became an independent nation in 1965. The …
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | James Kwok Ep2 – A Boy’s View of Singapore’s Political History
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. James Kwok remembers his mother, Wong Siew Aye, a former member of the People’s Action Party and Barisan Sosi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | James Kwok Ep1 – A Boy’s View of Singapore’s Political History
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. James Kwok had a ringside view of Singapore politics in the ‘50s and ‘60s, as his mother was with the People’…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | James Seah – ‘What is going to happen to us?’, The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. James Seah and his family lived in a kampong house at 21A Beo Lane before the fateful day on 25 May 1961 when…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Alex Tan – The Cola Wars Ep2: Coke vs Pepsi, Soft Drinks
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Alex Tan Tiong Hee remembers the marketing campaigns of the soft drinks and sings a few jingles. Singapore be…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Alex Tan – The Cola Wars Ep1: Coke vs Pepsi, Soft Drinks
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Alex Tan Tiong Hee talks the cola wars – Coca Cola vs. Pepsi Cola (he is a Coke guy). He recalls the myriad b…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Alex Tan – ‘Watch the sun set over the sea’, Old East Coast Before the Great Reclamation
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Alex Tan Tiong Hee takes a stroll back in time along Old East Coast and tells us how it was like to live alon…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Alex Tan – Old Chinatown Ep2: Conservation, Hawker Food, Walking Tours
Episode 2
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. In our concluding segment on Chinatown, Alex Tan Tiong Hee highlights its food culture, the exotic animals so…
1 year, 11 months ago