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Alan Fook Cheong Choe (Chinese: 曹福昌; Jyutping: co 4 fuk 1 coeng 1; 6 March 1931 – 27 May 2024) was a Singaporean architect and urban planner.He was a city planner with the Housing and Development Board and a founding member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
[3] [4] At the archive's launch, it included 14 newspapers, [5] including the New Nation, Sin Chew Jit Poh, [6] Nanyang Siang Pau, Berita Harian, the Singapore Weekly Herald, the Straits Mail, [3] The Business Times, today, Streats, the Malayan Saturday Post, the Straits Observer, and the Straits Telegraph and Daily Advertiser. [7]
The paper was founded as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce on 15 July 1845. [11] [12] The Straits Times was launched as an eight-page weekly, published at 7 Commercial Square using a hand-operated press. The subscription fee then was Sp.$1.75 per month.
In July 1999, Roger and his wife Lynette held lunchtime roadshows twice a week at the National University of Singapore, Temasek Polytechnic and the Singapore Polytechnic for the entire month. [ 4 ] Kool died of bone cancer on 31 October 2005 in Vancouver, Canada leaving behind his wife, Lynette Loon, and two sons, Jay and Neil.
Mr Lim Boon Keng was born on 18 October 1869 in Singapore, Straits Settlements, as the third generation of a Peranakan with ancestry from Haicheng Town, Longhai City, Fujian Province based from his grandfather Lim Mah Peng who first immigrated to Penang, Malaya in 1839, where he married a Straits-born Chinese woman.
The average age of slain police officers is 29.3 years of age, excluding 62 officers whose age were not reported. The highest number of casualties were in the 21–25 age band, making up 31.7% amongst officers whose age were reported, followed closely by those in the 26–30 age band, who make up 28.3%.
Arthur Yap was born in Singapore, the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife. Yap attended St Andrew's School and the University of Singapore, after which he won a British Council scholarship to study at the University of Leeds in England.
John Martin Scripps (9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996), also known as the Garden City Butcher, and "Tourist From Hell" [1] was an English serial killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three potential (yet unconfirmed) victims.