Adventures at home: Let's rediscover the Singapore story
In 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles stepped foot on our island and founded modern Singapore. But long before that, a third century Chinese account described our island as "Pu-luo-chung", referring to "Pulau Ujong", the "island at the end of a peninsula" in Malay. Then according to legend, in the 14th century Sang Nila Utama landed here on a hunting trip, and...