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There are two hawker centres in Bukit Ho Swee, namely Beo Crescent Market and Havelock Cooked Food Centre. There also various shops along the shophouses of Havelock road. There is a 24-hour NTUC FairPrice supermarket located in the ground level of block 50.
The Bukit Ho Swee fire [a] was a conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961. This fire resulted in 4 deaths and injured another 54. It also destroyed more than 2,800 houses around the Bukit Ho Swee area, leaving around 16,000 people homeless. The cause of this conflagration was never ...
Bukit Ho Swee (河水山) is a Singaporean Chinese language TV series aired in 2002 on Channel 8.With the "kampungs" of Bukit Ho Swee, a prominent Chinese estate notorious for its cramped squatters and gangsters at that time, as a backdrop, the series is set during the 1950s prior to the infamous fire of 1961.
In May 1961, the Bukit Ho Swee Fire broke out and some 16,000 people became homeless. Under Lim's guidance, the HDB took four years to complete the relocation and reconstruction of the lost housing, and 1,200 housing flats were made available to those who lost their homes in the fire.
The Bukit Ho Swee estate was used to rehouse other kampong residents displaced by fires or development schemes, paving the way for further urban renewal and resettlement schemes in the Central Area. [25] By 1965, more than 50,000 flats had been constructed and 23% of Singapore's population lived in public housing. [26]
25 May – The Bukit Ho Swee Fire kills 4 people and destroys 2,200 attap houses. [4] 27 May – Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaya, proposes a merger between Singapore, Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei (which pulled out last minute due to the Brunei Revolt). [5] [6]
Bukit Ho Swee – 河水山 (2002) [21] [22] Code of Honour – 正义武馆 (2011) Heroes in Black – 我来也 (2001) [23] In Pursuit of Peace – 何日军再来 ...
Bukit Ho Swee Constituency (SMC) was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1968 to 1984. It was carved out from Delta SMC. Member of Parliament.