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Check out modern homes in new communities around Opelika

Cuisine is one of the few ways to characterize Singapore’s Peranakan culture, a hard-to-pin-down blend of ethnic and racial identities.

IN the latest paper (re)making the case for independence, Renewing Democracy Through Independence, the First Minister argues that there is a…

Singapore-jackson-1828-2 $3,250.00 Title Plan of the Town of Singapore by Lieut. Jackson. / Plan of the British Settlement of Singapore by Capt. Franklin and Lieut. Jackson.   1828 (dated)         1 : 20500 Description Known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Plan, this is the first published map of Singapore. Published in 1828, the map was drawn by Lieutenant Philip Jackson at the request of Singapore founder Sir Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826). It is divided into two sections, a map o...

23 12 2020 Unlike many other cities around the world where “Chinatowns” exist, a “Chinatown” in Singapore — where three in four of its population are ethnic Chinese — does seem rather odd. The roots of the Chinese quarter do of course lie in Singapore’s very first urban plan, the so-called Jackson Plan of 1822, hatched at a time when the settlement was still very much in its infancy. That plan, placed the main settlement for migrants from China in the area where C...