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Chronicles of Old Singapore | Alex Tan – Old Chinatown Ep1: Race Riots, Pirate Taxis, Chinatown 2.0
Episode 1
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Alex Tan Tiong Hee recalls memorable events and going-ons in Old Chinatown: the second day of the 1964 race r…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Joel Chandran – Old Jalan Sembawang Kechil, The Naval Base
Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Joel Chandran, who is retired, recalls the sheer feeling of joy growing up in Old Sembawang in the ‘50s and ‘…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Anne Lim Ep2 – The Street Children at Nazareth Centre, Bukit Ho Swee
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. ‘We are the bodoh ones’, some of the struggling children of Bukit Ho Swee told Anne Lim Siew Kim in the early…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Anne Lim Ep1 – The Street Children at Nazareth Centre, Bukit Ho Swee
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Anne Lim Siew Kim was the assistant project coordinator at Nazareth Centre in Bukit Ho Swee in the early 1980…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Koh Boon Long – ‘The Salt of the Earth’: Old Jurong Road Ep2
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Koh Boon Long continues his memory stroll along the hills and farms of Jurong Road. Teaching at a modest scho…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Koh Boon Long – ‘The Salt of the Earth’: Old Jurong Road Ep1
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. ‘The Salt of the Earth’, as Koh Boon Long calls his former students at Jalan Lama Secondary School in rural J…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | C. Kunalan – My Life In Sprint Ep1: Barefoot to 1966 Asian Games
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. C. Kunalan, one of the all-time greats in Singapore athletics, talks about running the mile in his schooldays…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Fong Hoe Fang – Youthful Idealism: Pioneers Club to Breakthrough Ep1
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. Retired publisher Fong Hoe Fang relives the idealism and sense of social justice that led him to form Pioneer…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Charles Ngui – Old Clementi Ep1: Kampong Gajah, Beauty World Market
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Charles Ngui, 71, talks about growing up at 105 Clementi Road and the elephants of Kampong Gajah nearby. Further north was the famous Beauty World Ma…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chronicles of Old Singapore | Syamala Senan – Involuntary Migrant, From Kerala to Singapore Ep2
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Welcome to Chronicles of Old Singapore. As an ‘involuntary migrant’, Syamala Senan joined the Sree Narayana Mission in Singapore and became part of t…
1 year, 11 months ago