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Channel News Asia aired a documentary about the Bukit Ho Swee fire as part of its "Days of Disaster" documentary series on pivotal disasters in Singapore history. [35] The hour-long episode, which first aired on 8 February 2015, used techniques such as computer-generated imagery and interviews with individuals to document this event.
The scale of this fire far surmounted all previous fires. This includes the great fire of February 1959 at Kampong Tiong Bahru, which happened just across the main road from Bukit Ho Swee, a fire that rendered 5,000 people homeless. Thereafter, a second fire broke out seven years later that wiped out the remaining of Kampong Bukit Ho Swee. [3]
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 housing project used standardised architectural designs.
News 8 At One [1点新闻] (weekdays at 1pm) Hello Singapore – 狮城有约 (weekdays from 6:30pm to 7:30pm) Hello Singapore Highlights (weekdays 7:30am) News Tonight – 晚间新闻 (all days from 10pm to 10:30pm) (also broadcast on Mediacorp Channel U at 11pm on all days) Singapore Today – 狮城6点半 (weekends only from 6:30pm)
Bukit Ho Swee may refer to: Bukit Ho Swee, subzone within the planning area of Bukit Merah, Singapore. Bukit Ho Swee (TV series), Singaporean Chinese language TV series. Bukit Ho Swee Constituency, constituency in Singapore. Bukit Ho Swee fire, conflagration that broke out in the squatter settlement of Bukit Ho Swee, Singapore on 25 May 1961.
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