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The street was named Club Street due to its abundance of Chinese clubs in early Singapore history. [1] Clubs such as the Chinese Weekly Entertainment Kee Lam Club, a Straits-Chinese club formed in 1891, Chui Lan Teng Club, mainly for Chinese businessman to socialise and the Ee Hoe Hean Club, an exclusive prestigious Chinese club in the 1920s are located at the street which leads to competitive ...
Aerial perspective of Singapore's Chinatown Topdown look of a carpark near Club Street Bukit Pasoh Road is located on a hill that in the 1830s marked the western boundary of the colonial town. Singapore's Chinatown is known as Niu che shui [ b ] in Mandarin , Gû-chia-chúi in Hokkien , and Ngàuh-chē-séui in Cantonese - all of which mean ...
The Downtown Core is the historical and downtown centre of the city-state of Singapore and the main commercial area in Singapore excluding reclaimed lands with many integrated resorts such as the Marina Bay Sands, one of the most expensive buildings in the world, with a luxurious standalone casino at Bayfront Avenue.
East Coast Park is a beach and a park on the southeastern coast of Singapore.It stretches along the south of Marine Parade, Bedok, and Tampines.It was opened in the 1970s, after the Singapore government had completed reclaiming land off the coast at Katong, from Kallang to Changi.
The Central Area, also called the City Area, and informally The City, is the main commercial and financial city centre of Singapore.Located in the south-eastern part of the Central Region, the Central Area consists of eleven constituent planning areas: the Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, the Museum Planning Area, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, the Singapore River and ...
Toa Payoh New Town is Singapore's second oldest satellite town and the first to be built by the Housing and Development Board after the development of Queenstown by the Singapore Improvement Trust in the late 1950s. Before its time as a residential town, Toa Payoh was a squatter district, with a prominent agricultural heritage in the area. [7]
Cundhi Gong Temple, Keong Saik Road, Singapore One of the most sightworthy buildings is Cundhi Gong Temple (準提宫) at No. 13 Keong Saik Road, which was built in 1928 in the Nanyang style. [ 7 ] The temple, which is dedicated to the Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion , is a two storey building without a forecourt and has an area of 400 ...
Started in 1936, the club has had a rich history and is known for having produced notable sailors such as Benedict Tan, Siew Shaw Her, and more recently, Teo Wee Chin. It was originally the Royal Air Force sailing club alongside RAF Changi. The Sembawang Dockyard history also gives little mention of the years it was a Royal Naval Dockyard.