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Boon Lay is a residential precinct in Jurong, named after Chew Boon Lay, a prominent businessman in the late 19th century and early 20th century who owned the land where the precinct stands, when a requisition of 1. 012 km² of land from his estate was done by the war department of the then colonial government of Singapore, leading to the growth of Boon Lay Village in the 1940s, with a population of about 420 in the early 1960s.
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Jurong is the largest town in the western part of Singapore, consisting of 7 residential precincts ( Nanyang, Hong Kah, Yuhua, Taman Jurong, Boon Lay, Gek Poh, Pioneer ), 14 industrial districts ( Jurong Port, Jurong Pier, Jurong Hill, Lok Yang, Joo Koon, Gul, Benoi, Pioneer Sector, Toh Tuck, International Business Park, Kian Teck, Chin Bee, Penjuru, Jurong Island ), 1 military zone ( Pasir Laba ) and 1 Waterfront district ( Jurong Lake ).
Jurong Point Shopping Mall and Boon Lay MRT Station
The development of Jurong started in the 1970s when estates such as Boon Lay, Taman Jurong, Bukit Batok, Bukit Gombak, Hong Kah, Teban Gardens and Yuhua were built, mostly due to the resettlement of Hong Kah ( present-day Tengah ) and surrounding villages.
Boon Lay, Taman Jurong and Hong Kah formed Jurong West New Town.
The MRT Line was extended from Lakeside to Boon Lay in 1990 and again to Pioneer in 2009.
Lakeside, Boon Lay, Pioneer and Joo Koon stations are well connected to the Jurong West area.
The town is well-served by public bus services originating from 2 interchanges and 1 bus depot, namely the Jurong East and Boon Lay bus interchanges and Soon Lee Bus Depot.
It is well linked to the Boon Lay MRT Station and Boon Lay Bus Interchange.
Jurong Junior College is located within the town, in between Hong Kah and Boon Lay.
Then, ' Boon Lay Constituency ' was carved out in 1976 and ' Hong Kah Constituency ' in 1984, forming 4 separate constituencies.
' Boon Lay Constituency ', together with Teban Gardens and Pioneer, was absorbed into the newly-created Westcoast GRC.
Another 21 stations were subsequently added to the system ; the opening of Boon Lay Station on the East West Line on 6 July 1990 marked the completion of the system two years ahead of schedule.
The Boon Lay Extension, consisting of Pioneer and Joo Koon, began revenue service on 28 February 2009.
Operational and running thorugh Boon Lay to Joo Koon.
Initially operated as a shuttle service, through services from Boon Lay were commenced after the full opening, but the service was reverted into shuttle mode from July 22, 2003.
Boon Lay MRT Station ( EW27 ) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Jurong, Singapore.
The station currently serves residents living in Boon Lay, Pioneer, Gek Poh, Nanyang and people working in Tuas, Tuas South, Pioneer Sector, Jurong Hill, Jurong Pier, Lok Yang, Benoi and Gul.
In addition, it serves people who travels to the Nanyang Technological University via bus services 179 or 199 and tourists going to Jurong Bird Park via bus services 194 or 251, as all these bus services originate from Boon Lay Bus Interchange.
Together with Boon Lay Bus Interchange and Jurong Point Shopping Mall, it is part of the Boon Lay Integrated Public Transport Hub.
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She later married Dany Boon, who is the father of her son Noé.
A similar carving is preserved in the museum of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, which reads " D. Boon Kilt a Bar, 1803.
Col Boon is eighty-five years of age, five feet seven inches high, stoutly made, and active for one of his years ; is still of vigorous mind, and is pretty well informed.
* Allie Lake: northern half is in Boon Lake Township ; southern half is in Preston Lake Township
Boonville is a city in Boon Township, Warrick County, Indiana, United States.
However, many mistakenly believe it is named after Ratliff Boon, an early settler and Indiana's second governor, who supported the city becoming county seat.
Chandler is a town in Boon and Ohio townships, Warrick County, Indiana, United States.
Little, if anything, is known about the remaining Boon family, but they did survive the initial attack.
Boon Township is a civil township of Wexford County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
* Boon is an unincorporated community located in the Manistee National Forest at.
The village is on the boundary between Slagle Township on the west and Boon Township on the east, with about half of the village in each.
Boon Lake Township is a township in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.
* Duivelsbier, a local beer, is now brewed by the Boon brewery.
* February 23 – the first televised boxing match, the British Lightweight Champion match Eric Boon v Arthur Danaher, is shown live by the BBC and simultaneously in several cinemas.
Singha, (, correctly pronounced sing, but typically pronounced by foreigners as sing-ha, reflecting the Latin spelling ) or singa, is a 5 % alcohol-by-volume ( abv ) pale lager produced by Boon Rawd Brewery.
Boon Rawd is the only Thai brewery to be granted Royal Permission to display it.
" Although Phil Gould is uncredited on the album, the track " Ship " is the first song since 1986 worked on by all four original members, as Phil originally arranged the track with his brother Boon.
It is known therefore, that the use of the number ' 42 ' in the band name came from either King, Boon Gould, or Sojka.
Served only at night when Boon Tat Street is closed to vehicular traffic and the stalls and tables occupy the street, it mimics the open-air dining style of previous establishments.
Ed Boon, the co-creator of Mortal Kombat, revealed in one of his interviews with GamePro that his favorite fighting game out of his competitors is Tekken.
Boon is responsible for the writing and composition of the Minutemen's most anthemic songs ( in contrast to Watt's stream of consciousness lyrics ), including " This Ain't No Picnic ", " Corona ", " The Price of Paradise ," and " Courage.
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This station was built to serve residents living in the then-undeveloped Jurong West New Town and people working in the then mostly-undeveloped Tuas and Jurong Industrial Estate, since it was the only MRT station serving these areas, covering the areas Westwards from Boon Lay.
With Pioneer MRT Station serving the western portion of Jurong West New Town and Pioneer Sector, and Joo Koon MRT Station serving Joo Koon, Boon Lay MRT station now serves only the eastern portion of Jurong West New Town and 1 less industrial area and ceased to be the western terminal of the East West Line.
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