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Singapore and Memorial
King Edward Memorial ( KEM ) Hospital in Mumbai, India, the King Edward Medical University in Pakistan, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women in Subiaco, Western Australia, and King Edward VII Hall at the National University of Singapore carry King Edward's name.
Memorial to Terauchi in the Japanese Cemetery Park, Singapore
Hashing died out during World War II shortly after the invasion of Malaya, but was restarted in 1946 after the war by several of the original group, minus A. S. Gispert, who was killed on 11 February 1942 in the Japanese invasion of Singapore, an event commemorated by many chapters by an annual Gispert Memorial Run.
* Australian War Memorial: Remembering 1942 The fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942
* Australian War MemorialThe fall of Singapore, 15 February 1942
" The Collective Memory of the Sook Ching Massacre and the Creation of the Civilian War Memorial of Singapore ".
His great-granduncle Teo Eng Hock was a rubber magnate who lent Sun Yat-sen the use of his villa ( now known as Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall ) as the Singapore branch of the Tongmenghui ( Chinese Revolutionary Alliance ).
Some of the Japanese war dead were taken back to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, while the remains of the British troops were interred at the British Commonwealth's Kranji War Memorial in Singapore.
The Lim Bo Seng Memorial in Singapore
Kranji served as a military camp before the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942, and is now the home of the Kranji War Cemetery and Kranji War Memorial, commemorating the 30, 000 Commonwealth personnel who died in Singapore, Malaya, Java and Sumatra during World War II.
* Kranji War Cemetery and Singapore Memorial
The Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall (), also known as Wan Qing Yuan (), and formerly as Sun Yat Sen Villa (), is a double-storey colonial villa in Balestier, Singapore.
Colin St Clair Oakes designed the Singapore Memorial and the War Cemetery, and the memorial was unveiled on 2 March 1957 by Sir Robert Black, who was a former a prisoner of war of the Japanese and at the time of the unveiling was then the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Singapore.
These memorials are mainly clustered around the main Singapore Memorial.
This memorial, located further from the Singapore Memorial, is a mass grave for 69 Chinese servicemen serving with the Commonwealth forces who were killed at the start of the occupation.
* Roll of Honour Singapore Memorial
* Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore
It is located next to the War Memorial Park, the Suntec City Mall and the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Kelly has since executed many public commissions, including Wright Curve ( 1966 ), a steel sculpture designed for permanent installation in the Guggenheim ’ s Peter B. Lewis Theater ; a mural for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 1969 ; Curve XXII ( I Will ) at Lincoln Park in Chicago in 1981 ; a 1985 commission by I. M. Pei for the Raffles City building in Singapore ; the Houston Triptych, vertical bronze planes mounted on a tall concrete at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1986 ; Totem ( 1987 ), a sculpture for the Parc de la Creueta del Coll, Barcelona ; the Dallas Panels ( Blue Green Black Red ) ( 1989 ) for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas ; a 1989 sculpture for the headquarters of Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland ; Gaul ( 1993 ), a monumental sculpture commissioned by the Institute d ' Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France ; a two-part memorial for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., in 1993 ; and large-scale Berlin panels for the Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, in 1998.
Singapore International School, Canadian International School of Hong Kong, Good Shepherd Sisters Marycove Centre, Hong Kong Juvenile Care Centre Chan Nam Cheong Memorial School, Nam Long Hospital and David Trench Home for the Aged are on the western slope of the Nam Long Shan.

Singapore and known
Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.
Vegetarian cuisine is known as zhāicài ("( Buddhist ) vegetarian food ") in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan ; đồ chay in Vietnam ; in Japan ; sachal eumsik (" temple food ") in Korea and by other names in many countries.
Under Mountbatten's presidency and personal involvement, the United World College of South East Asia was established in Singapore in 1971, followed by the United World College of the Pacific ( now known as the Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific ) in Victoria, Canada, in 1974.
Gardner was unhappy with the working conditions and the racist attitudes of his colleagues, and when he developed malaria he felt that this was the last straw ; he left Borneo and moved to Singapore in what was then known as Malaya.
A potato chip ( known as a crisp in British English and Hiberno-English ; as a chip in American, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Singapore, South African, Jamaican English and as either a chip or wafer in Indian English ) is a thin slice of potato that is deep fried or baked until crunchy.
Tricycle rickshaws ( or better known as trishaw s in Singapore ) are used to ferry tourists around the city area for sightseeing trips.
* In Singapore law, Malaya means the States of Malaya ( also known as Peninsular Malaysia ) together with Singapore ( 1946-present ).
Most companies in Singapore are registered as private limited-liability companies ( commonly known as " private limited companies ").
At the 7th ISS Asia Security Summit ( also known as Shangri-La Dialogue ) in Singapore, Bangladesh's Foreign advisor Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury met with UK's Defence Minister Des Browne at the sidelines to discuss security and defense relations between the two countries.
* Institute of Mental Health ( Singapore ), also known by its former name as Woodbridge Hospital.
In Singapore the Mexican Wave is known as the Kallang Wave, and is widely seen as a symbol of Singaporean national identity.
The area is also known as a major supplier of legumes and vegetables to both Malaysia and Singapore.
Hopes The island of the Lion is " The island of Kea in the Cyclades Tzia, Athens, Greece "; Tzia or Kea Κέα ( Greek ) island known as " the island of the lion " or The Meaning of Singapore is " the island of the lion or the city of lion and Singapore is " The spotless / clean land of the lion one which is surrounded by a excellent / supreme ocean ( Hindumahaasaagar or Indian Ocean ) at the other side of this ocean.
It is the national language of Indonesia ( as Indonesian ), Malaysia ( also known as Malaysian ), and Brunei, and it is one of four official languages of Singapore.
In Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, Eid is more commonly known as Hari Raya Aidilfitri ( Jawi: هاري راي عيدالفطري ), Hari Raya Idul Fitri or Hari Raya Puasa.
The Malay variant ( worn in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Southern Thailand and parts of Indonesia ( especially in Sumatera and Kalimantan ) is known as the Baju Melayu, shirt worn with a sarong known as kain samping or songket and a headwear known as songkok.
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, FRS ( 6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826 ) was a British statesman, best known for his founding of the city of Singapore ( now the city-state of the Republic of Singapore ).
Singapore Airlines is currently one of the few airlines still choosing to use the image of their stewardesses, known as Singapore Girls, in their advertising material.

Singapore and locally
The Cortina was also sold in other right hand drive markets such as the Republic of Ireland where it was assembled locally, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Malta and South Africa.
After the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the return of Singapore to British rule, the island became the base of the locally enlisted First Singapore Regiment of the Royal Artillery ( 1st SRRA ) in 1947.
Other locally enlisted men from Singapore were sent to the island for basic military training before being sent to other units of the British Army in Singapore.
The Singapore Zoo (; ; ), formerly known as the Singapore Zoological Gardens and commonly known locally as the Mandai Zoo, occupies 28 hectares ( 0. 28 km² ) of land on the margins of Upper Seletar Reservoir within Singapore's heavily forested central catchment area.
* SIAI-Marchetti S. 211 — Since 1984, 32 × S. 211s were acquired for RSAF's Basic Jet Training ( BJT ) program ( this figure includes 24 airframes which were assembled locally by Singapore Aircraft Industries plus two former Haitian aircraft acquired as attrition replacements in 1994 ).
Stuff magazine has been locally published in Singapore since 2004.
However, specialist dealers are supplying all major spares that are locally made or imported from USA and Singapore.
The film took in merely S $ 130, 000 locally but broke the ice for the next coming Singapore movie, Bugis Street, which was released in 1995.
The station now telecasts its flagship local news bulletin as Primetime News to all its viewers, both locally in Singapore and internationally live.
Mabolo, Velvet Apple or ( locally ) Kamagong ( Diospyros blancoi ) ' Butter fruit ' ( Singapore ) is a plant of the genus of ebony trees and persimmons, Diospyros.
The Eclipse Gemini 2-bodied buses had also been sold to Kowloon Motor Bus and Citybus of Hong Kong and SBS Transit of Singapore, bodywork for the latter are locally assembled.

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