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Stevens MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the Downtown (DTL) and Thomson–East Coast (TEL) lines. Situated at the junction of Stevens Road and Bukit Timah Road, it serves the nearby Singapore Chinese Girls' School and St. Joseph's Institution, as well as the Raffles Town Club and the surrounding private estates.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 November 2024. Singaporean businessman and philanthropist Not to be confused with Peter Lin (disambiguation). Peter Lim 林荣福 Lim in 2016 Born (1953-05-21) 21 May 1953 (age 71) Colony of Singapore Education University of Western Australia Occupations Businessman investor Known for Stockbroking ...
Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a Singaporean chain of luxury hotels which traces its roots to 1887 with the opening of the original Raffles Hotel in Singapore. [2] The company started to develop internationally in the late 1990s.
Raffles Holdings was the parent company of Raffles International, owned by Temasek Holdings which is the investment arm of the Singapore government. In 2005, Raffles Holdings' hotel business ranked 17th or 18th in the world in terms of market capitalization and number of rooms, all marketed under the Raffles and Swissôtel brand names.
In Malcolm Pryce's 2020 detective novel, The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness, the detective tracks down and interviews a contact at Raffles. Raffles Hotel is the main setting of Weng Wai Chan's book Lizard's Tale , which won the Junior Fiction award at the 2020 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults .
Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. [1] It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan. It was renamed Raffles Place in 1858 and is now the site of a number ...
It was launched on 21 November 2000 and closed on 13 March 2001. Three days later, the successful tenderers, Boulevard Development Pte Ltd, Comina Investment Limited and Freyland Pte Ltd, was announced. A new company, One Marina Boulevard Pte Ltd, was incorporated to develop the land parcel. [7] Currently, the land parcel is on a 99-year lease.
One Raffles Quay (Chinese: 莱佛士码头一号) is an office building complex located at Raffles Place, the central business district of Singapore. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox , One Raffles Quay (ORQ) consists of the 50-storey North Tower and the 29- storey South Tower, totalling about 1.3 million square feet of office space.