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Toa Payoh, in Hokkien, translates as "big swamp" (with toa meaning "big" and payoh meaning "swamp"). The Malay word for swamp is paya. It is the Chinese equivalent of Paya Lebar, which translates to "big swamp land". Toa Payoh's old Chinese name, was known as Ang Chiang San (alternatively An Xiang Shan) or "burial hill". The area was called as ...
As Toa Payoh town estate grew in its affluence and size, so did the Church and its parish community. In an effort to reduce noise from the road traffic nearby, Church of the Risen Christ became among the first Roman Catholic Church to install an air-conditioning system within its premises in 1974.
Potong Pasir (IPA: /ˌpɒtɒŋ pɑːˈseɪ, ˌpoʊ-/ PO-tong pah-SAY) is a housing estate located between Toa Payoh and Sennett Estate in the Central Region of Singapore. For urban planning purposes, it is classified under the Toa Payoh area. Politically, Potong Pasir had been the longest-held opposition ward in one-party dominant Singapore.
The Central Region is one of the five regions in the city-state of Singapore and the main metropolitan region surrounding the Central Area. Comprising 13,150 hectares (32,500 acres) of land area, [ 2 ] it includes 11 planning areas within the Central Area, as well as another 11 more outside it.
Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) was a group representation constituency that from 1988 to 1997 comprised Kuo Chuan, Boon Teck and Toa Payoh, in the Central Region of Singapore. The MPs are Davinder Singh, Ho Tat Kin and S. Dhanabalan. Kim Keat Single Member Constituency was absorbed in the 1991 elections.
Toa Payoh Single Member Constituency was a constituency that holds the Toa Payoh area, in the Central Region of Singapore, from 1959 to 1988.The constituency broke away into Boon Teck, Kim Keat and Kuo Chuan in 1972 general elections, and Khe Bong in 1976 general elections.
Following the event, the building was later converted, and opened as the Toa Payoh Branch Library on 7 February 1974 by Sha'ari Tadin, Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Culture, in the place of Jek Yuen Thong, the then Minister for Culture. The building cost approximately $1.234 million to build the building.
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