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Robinson Road, Singapore. Robinson Road (Chinese: 罗敏申路) is a major trunk road in Singapore's Central Area. The road is named afterward Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, the Governor of the Straits Settlements in 1877–1879. The land on which Robinson Road now stands was crested through land reclamation work started in 1879. [1]
Robinson Road, Singapore; Former name of Nathan Road in Hong Kong This page was last edited on 3 August 2023, at 18:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Robinson 77, formerly SIA Building, [5] is a high-rise skyscraper located in the central business district of Singapore. The building is located on 77 Robinson Road, just next to DBS Building Tower One and Two. [6] Once the flagship building of Singapore Airlines, the airline sold the building to SEB
On 12 August 2005, a rare demonstration by four people demanding greater transparency and accountability in Singapore's state-managed pension fund and other government-linked agencies. The two men and two women assembled at lunchtime outside the CPF building in the central business district, Robinson Road, Singapore. They claimed they did not ...
Robinson Road and Anson Road were subsequently built in the reclaimed area. The street also was the founding site of one of Singapore's oldest schools, Gan Eng Seng School, which was started in 1885 at 106 Telok Ayer Street as the Anglo-Chinese Free School. The historical site marker of the school is nearby at the junction of Telok Ayer and ...
After Singapore's independence in 1965, the government adopted new road-naming policies as part of its nation-building effort. [11] A Street Naming Advisory Committee was appointed in February 1967 by the Minister of Finance, [12] and priority was given to local names and Malay names, while names of prominent figures and British places and people were discouraged. [11]
The project has also received backing from the Singapore Film Commission and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. Anthony Chen of Singapore’s Giraffe Pictures said: “This is a ...
Capital Tower is a 52-storey, 254 m (833 ft) skyscraper completed in 2000 in the Shenton Way-Tanjong Pagar financial district of Singapore, located at Robinson Road next to Tanjong Pagar MRT station. It is the fourth tallest skyscraper in the city.