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Shawn Huang Wei Zhong PBM (né Ingkiriwang; Chinese: 黄伟中; pinyin: Huáng Wěizhōng; born 19 July 1982) [2] [3] is a Singaporean politician and former fighter pilot. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Jurong Spring division of Jurong GRC since 2020.
The proportion of residents in Jurong West using English as the most frequently spoken language (36.5%) is the lowest among all planning areas in Singapore, significantly below the national average of 48.3%. Notably, Jurong West is the only planning area in Singapore where there are more Mandarin Chinese speakers than English speakers.
The main roads in Hong Kah are Jurong West Avenue 2, Corporation Road, Boon Lay Way, Jurong Town Hall Road, Jurong East Avenue 1 and Jurong West Avenue 1, which connects the precinct to the rest of the island through the PIE exits 31 and 34, to the Bukit Batok Road and Jurong West Avenue 2 with minor roads (Jurong West Street 41/42/51/52 and ...
In the 2011 general elections, the Jurong Central and Hong Kah division's population carved to form the new Jurong Spring division, while Yuhua became a SMC in return. In 2015, Bukit Batok was carved as a SMC while Clementi, a division under the West Coast GRC, was absorbed to the ward to maintain its five seats.
Taman Jurong was home to the former Jurong Hospital, located at 235 Corporation Drive. Opened in 1970, [10] it was the only hospital in Jurong West and later renamed to West Point Hospital. The hospital ceased operations in 2018. [11] The former hospital site will be redeveloped into Taman Jurong Polyclinic, due for completion in 2028. [11]
Jurong East is the regional centre of the region, with plans of developing the Jurong Lake District into a second CBD area. [2] Jurong West is the most populous town in the region, with a population of 262,730 residents. [1] Comprising 25,500 hectares of land area, [3] it includes twelve planning areas and is home to about 922,540 residents.
Political censorship in the West today is “exactly the same” as it was in China under leader Mao Zedong, artist Ai Weiwei has said. The 66-year-old told Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor ...
Jurong (/ dʒ uː r ɒ ŋ /) is a major geographical region located at the south-westernmost point of the West Region of Singapore.Although mostly vaguely defined, the region's extent roughly covers the planning areas of Jurong East, Jurong West, Boon Lay, and Pioneer, along with Jurong Island in the Western Islands cluster and the southernmost portions of the Western Water Catchment.