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When Choa Chu Kang Town was developed by expanding Teck Whye Estate near the other end of Choa Chu Kang Road at its junction with Upper Bukit Timah Road and Woodlands Road to the north, the place name began to be applied to a much larger area, especially when political divisions like the Choa Chu Kang ward applied to the entire northwest sector ...
The older spelling of Chua Chu Kang (Chinese: 蔡厝港; pinyin: Càicuògǎng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhoà-chhù-káng), a suburban area and village in western Singapore, is now more commonly spelled as Choa Chu Kang after the new town by the same name took its spelling from Choa Chu Kang Road, itself an anomaly as the village and the surrounding ...
Place names that are associated with the Kangchu system are named after former place features such as settlements, (or Chu Kang, Chinese: 厝港), [fn 1] river bases (or Kangkar, Chinese: 港脚) and port (or Kang, Chinese: 港). These terminologies are of Chinese origins, and draws its phonology from the Teochew dialect. [2]
Located in the west of the island in close proximity to the Tengah Air Base and at the confluence of the Old Choa Chu Kang Road, Lim Chu Kang Road and Jalan Bahar, it comprises the Chinese, Christian, Ahmadiyya Jama'at, Muslim, Parsi, Baháʼí, Jewish, Hindu and Lawn cemeteries. It is currently the only cemetery in Singapore which allows burials.
Choa Chu Kang NS4 JS1 BP1 Choa Chu Kang: 蔡厝港: சுவா சூ காங்: 10 March 1990: Choa Chu Kang CCK Bukit Panjang LRT — Choa Chu Kang NS5 Yew Tee: 油池: இயூ டீ: 10 February 1996: Choa Chu Kang North YWT — NS6 DE2 Sungei Kadut: 双溪加株: சுங்கை காடுத்: 2035: Kadut, [15] Sungei Kadut ...
Traditional commercial sectors of Chinatown once dominated by Teochews include Circular Road and South Bridge Road. Chaozhou peoples also founded rural settlements and were active in the plantation industry, and gave rise to modern place names such as Choa Chu Kang, Lim Chu Kang and Yio Chu Kang.
On the morning of 14 February 2016, at around 7 AM, 68-year-old temple helper Tan Kui Seng arrived at Chin Long Kong Chinese Temple, one of the five constituents of the Choa Chu Kang Combined Temple (along Teck Whye Lane of Choa Chu Kang), in order to begin his work for the day. Just as he entered the temple, he made a gruesome discovery--his ...
The name of the neighbourhood of Limbang ("balance" in Malay) was derived from an old road, Lorong Limbang. [4] Lorongs were common in the past before urban redevelopment such as Lorong Kebasi , Lorong Bistari and Lorong Keduang (present-day Choa Chu Kang Drive).