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The Causeway became an internal state border when the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak merged to form Malaysia on 16 September 1963. On 22 July 1964, as part of a curfew after racial riots in Singapore, the Causeway was closed to travellers without police permission. It was reopened during non-curfew hours the following day ...
Causeway Point is the seventh largest suburban shopping mall in Singapore. It is operated by Frasers Property. Causeway Point is located in the town centre of Woodlands, a town in the north of Singapore. [1] Completed in 1998, it is located beside the Woodlands MRT station and the underground Woodlands Bus Interchange. It has 250 retail outlets ...
The Woodlands Regional Library (WRL; Chinese: 兀兰区域图书馆; Malay: Perpustakaan Wilayah Woodlands) is a regional public library in Woodlands in the North Region of Singapore. It is within the premises of the Woodlands Civic Centre, near Causeway Point, Woodlands Bus Interchange and Woodlands MRT station. The library has a floor space ...
Popular Holdings Limited, more commonly known as just Popular (stylized in all caps) or colloquially as the Popular Bookstore, is a Singaporean multinational bookstore chain. Aside from Singapore, it also has subsidiaries in countries such as Canada , China (including Hong Kong and Macau ), Taiwan , Malaysia , United Kingdom , and the United ...
The police would step up its security checks when the situation demanded it, like during the Malayan Emergency [7] [8] or dealing with the aftermath of prison breaks at the prison at Pearl's Hill. [9] [10] Generally people at both sides of the causeway could travel between Singapore and Johor, ergo Peninsular Malaysia freely. [11]
In 2011, the bookstore organised the exhibition An Ode to Penguin, held at The Arts House, that showcased over 1,000 Penguin Books from their private collection. [ 3 ] BooksActually was a regular organiser of pop-up stores at various retail locations around Singapore, such as Orchard Cineleisure, TANGS PlayLab, New Majestic Hotel, HOUSE ...
Hong Kong: The first Mitsukoshi in Hong Kong, covering 12000 sq meters on 4 levels, opened at 500 Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay on 26 August 1981. A second store opened in 1988 in the Sun Arcade in Tsim Sha Tsui, but it closed in 1995. Mitsukoshi closed its original Causeway Bay store on 17 September 2006, due to the redevelopment of Hennessy Centre.
The island lies 24 nautical miles (44 km) from the next easternmost point of Singapore, and 7.7 nautical miles (14.3 km) southeast of the Malaysian coastline. There are two structural crossings along the border. They are the Johor–Singapore Causeway and the Malaysia–Singapore Second Link (officially known as the Tuas Second Link in Singapore).