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Street names in Singapore often hold clues to the past. Names such as “Telok Ayer Street” and “Beach Road” for example, provide an indication of where the city’s original shoreline might have been. And just as there was originally a “telok” or bay along which Telok Ayer Street ran, there was also a beach by…
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The Department of History at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has announced six works that have been shortlisted for the second run of the NUS Singapore History Prize. The prize hopes to stimulate "engagement with Singapore's history broadly understood", make the nuances of history "more accessible", and generate a greater understanding among Singaporeans, a press release by NUS stated. The History Prize, which is administered by the NUS Department of History, is awarded every three years and carries a cash award of S$50,000 for the winner. Wh...
Archeologists are investigating a lawn that's thought to cover the mass grave of the victims of a wartime massacre in Singapore, ahead of the construction of a hospital extension on the site.