Singapore's hidden history
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In the early 70s government offices in Singapore clamped down on males sporting long hair because it spelt gangsterism.
For present generation readers who don't believe this is true, the above poster from the 70s National Library Archives proves it.
To make matters worse, the country discouraged and finally banned pop music as it was termed "yellow culture".
Singapore's pop music industry faded after all its glory and support from the 60s public.
A thriving and decent way for both amateur and professional musicians to make an honest living died an
unnatural death. Many enthusiasts moaned the local pop music's demise and up to this day the industry never recovered.
The Golden Age of Pop Music... will it ever make a comeback?
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Hidden History : 1962- Singaporeans were not allowed to vote NOT to join Malaysia.
In 1962, a Referendum was conducted to see what Singaporeans think about the prospects of merger with Malaya. The people were given 3 options :
Option 1 : Merger with autonomy in Labour and Education matters
Option 2 : Unconditional merger making Singapore on par with any Malayan state.
Option 3 : Merger under terms not worse than the Borneo states.
There was no Option available if you do not wish for merger with Malaya.
In other words, you are fucked if you do not want merger!!!
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Hidden history : Tiger shot in Raffles Hotel. This is true. Not a legend. -1902
The shooting was reported in the Straits Times of 13 Aug 1902
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Hidden History - Lee Kuan Yew's pact with Mahathir - Call off the dogs of "S" Committee and we will do the same- 1988
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Hidden History : 2SIR caught in ambush 1965 - 9 dead
During the Indonesian Confrontation in Nov 1964, Indonesian infiltrators were reported to have landed on the south eastern coast of Johore. 2 SIR was called to patrol the Kota Tinggi area. Unfortunately on 28 Feb 1965, the infiltrators ambushed a platoon. This resulted in nine dead and five wounded among the SIR soldiers. The news was reported by the Staits Times only on 4 March 1965.....
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Hidden History - The rape and murder of CJC schoolgirl Winnifred Teo Suan Lie 1985
In 1985, this schoolgirl from CJC went jogging ... she never returned alive. Her naked body was found bound and stabbed, ans was sexually assualted. Her killers were never caught. UP to this day, there are people who feel the case is not closed, and justice will be done!
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ON OCT 15 in 1994, at 7.30'pm, on her way to her hairdresser's at the Katong People's Complex (now known as Katong Mall), Singapore's top nightclub mamasan Mona Koh was shot twice by an unknown gunman at the ground floor lift lobby. One bullet hit her face, another her back. A police detective was NEAR the scene of the shooting, but even then the gunman was never caught.....
Mona was to spent six months in hospitals, first in the Singapore General Hospital, then Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
The bullet in her face was removed, but not the one lodged in her spine. She was reduced to be wheelchair-bound.
The gunman could have been a hired hitman, and till today, she maintains that she does not know who wanted her out of the way so badly.
""People say I know who it was, but I really don't know. Sometimes, I wish the answer would come to me in a dream. But I certainly would like to know who did it before I die.''
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Hidden History - 1984-Muthu was chopped up and cooked as curry
Muthu in the Curry
Muthu chopped up in the Church kitchen
Mr Ayakannu Marithamuthu was murdered on 12 December 1984 at the Orchard Road Presbyterian Church and his body cooked in curry before being disposed of. The case became popularly known as the "Curry Murder".
An unrepentant wife-beater, Ayakannu was a father of three who worked as a live-in caretaker of holiday chalets in Changi. His wife Naragatha worked at the Orchard Road Presbyterian Church.
On the day of the murder, Ayakannu was repeatedly bludgeoned to death. To destroy all traces of evidence, his body was chopped up into pieces. The body parts were then cooked into curry and disposed all over the island.
Investigations revealed that the victim was chopped and then cooked in a large aluminium pot.
Naragatha and her 3 brothers were charged in 1987 with murder. However, as there was insufficient evidence against them, they were acquitted. The brothers were re-arrested on the same day and detained without trial under the Criminal Law Act. They were released in June 1991.
Apart from what investigations revealed, the prosecution was unable to prove that it was indeed the family members who caused Ayakannu's death. The cooking pot in which Ayakannu's body parts were allegedly cooked could not be found, leaving no traces of the cooking or Muthu in the curry....
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Hidden History : British Cpt destroyed our National Treasure - the Singapore Stone.
The Singapore Stone is a fragment of a large sandstone slab which originally stood at the mouth of the Singapore River. The slab, which is believed to date back to at least the 13th century and possibly as early as the 10th or 11th century, bore an undeciphered inscription, which could probably shed more light on Singapore's early history before the coming of the British.
In June 1819, a few months after the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore, a sandstone slab about 10 ft (3.0 m) high and 9 to 10 ft (2.7 to 3.0 m) long was found by Indian labourers clearing jungle trees at the mouth of the Singapore River. The men on discovering the inscription were very much frightened, and could not be induced to go on with the clearing, which was completed by Chinese under the stimulus of high wages...
In 1843, on the orders of the acting Settlement Engineer, Captain D.H. Stevenson, the slab was blown to pieces to clear and widen the passageway at the Singapore River mouth to make space for Fort Fullerton and the quarters of its commander.
Lt-Col James Low managed to save small fragments bearing the most legible parts of the inscription and sent them to the Royal Asiatic Society's museum in Calcutta in 1848. A large block from the monument lay abandoned at Fort Canning until finally being broken up and used as gravel for a road.
One of the fragments of the original sandstone slab that was saved by Lt-Col Low was later returned to the Raffles Museum in Singapore. This is today known as the Singapore Stone. It is currently displayed in the Singapore History Gallery of the National Museum of Singapore. The Stone was designated by the Museum as one of 11 "national treasures" in January 2006
Because of this silly British Captain/Engineer, the secrets of the Singapore Stone will forever remain a Secret.....
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Hidden History : Sunny Ang
Ang, Sunny (1939– 1967) One of Singapore’s most famous criminals, convicted on 18 May 1965 for the murder of bar waitress Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid, whose body was never found. The prosecution alleged that on 27 August 1963, Sunny Ang had hired a sampan (small boat) to bring him and Cheok to Sisters Islands south of Singapore, ostensibly to collect corals; but the real motive was murder— she was heavily insured. Ang was bankrupt whereas Cheok had been insured for a total of $450,000 with several insurance companies. Some of Cheok’s policies were renewed on the morning of her death, although Ang’s were not. The beneficiaries were Ang’s mother and Cheok’s estate.
Ang had helped Cheok to don the diving gear and let the novice diver descend alone. When she failed to surface, he did not go down to search for her. Moreover, he filed the insurance claims less than 24 hours after her disappearance. One of Cheok’s flippers was later found with the heel strap cut in two places by a sharp instrument. The prosecution relied entirely on circumstantial evidence. The jury found Ang guilty of murder and he was sentenced to death. He was unsuccessful in applying for leave to appeal to the Privy Council and was hanged on 6 February 1967.
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Hidden History : the Great Flood of 1978
1978 Singapore floods
By Tan Lay Yuen written on 1999-04-17
National Library Board Singapore
Monsoon rains brought on Singapore's worst floods on 2 December 1978 causing seven deaths and hundreds to be evacuated.The torrential monsoon rains on 2 December 1978 brought disastrous floods and utter chaos throughout Singapore.
Seven people died during the floods (six were drowned and one was electrocuted by a 'live' lamp post). More than 1,000 people were evacuated from their homes by army and police boats from five submerged areas, namely, Kampung San Teng, Potong Pasir, Lorong Buang Kok, Lorong Kudang, Lorong Kinchir and Lorong Chuan.
Howling winds, lashing rain and swirling waters hit the island at 1:00 pm. bringing two days of destruction to life, property, crops and livestock. Flood waters, unleashed by the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in a single day (512.4 mm), caused roads to be submerged in more than a metre of water and impassable to traffic. Hundreds of vehicles were abandoned and several cars stalled after hitting into deep waters or trees and lamp posts. Airline flights, train and mail schedules were disrupted. Telecommunication cables and power lines were damaged causing failures in communication services and electricity supplies to thousands of households. Trees were uprooted by strong winds while the heavy rainfall caused landslides in several hilly areas.
The worst hit areas were the farm belt zones of Woodlands, Braddell Road, Potong Pasir and Changi where more than 2,000 pigs and poultry perished in the swollen waters. This was the worst flood since the Hari Raya floods that hit the island in December 1969.
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Hidden History : Girl shot thru heart in Queenstown 1972
Queenstown, 18 September, 1972 - A 22-year old seamstress by the name of Cheng Li Zhen (曾丽�) was walking with her 19-year old sister Li Bao (丽�) near Tanglin Halt when she suddenly screamed and collapsed. Blood oozed from her chest. It was only after she was sent to the Outram Road General Hospital that they discovered she had been shot. She died from her wound without regaining consciousness.
X-rays showed that the bullet entered from her upper left chest and hit her heart. Police suspected that the shooter was a sniper hiding in one of the high-rise buildings. There were no witnesses and her sister did not see any anyone with a gun.
The case remains unsolved.....
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Who would want to waste a bullet on this poor girl ?
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Hidden History : Largest tomb in Singapore... size of 10 HBD flats
Notice the life sized (2 metres tall) Sikh guard...... our own terra cotta warrior
Ong Sam Leong (b. 1857, Singapore - d. 7 February 1918, Singapore) was a successful and respected Chinese businessman. He was the key contractor supplying labourers to the mines in the phosphate-rich Christmas Island. He also owned other businesses such as brickworks and plantations in the Straits Settlements. His remains are housed in the largest tomb at Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore. His two sons, popularly referred to as the Ong Brothers, built and owned the New World Theme Park.
Ong was very active in the patriotic movement of the Straits Chinese community during World War One. He contributed liberally to the fund raising efforts during the war. In appreciation of the Straits Volunteer Corps (SVC), which defended the Settlements, he built a garage at the SVC Drill Hall at his own expense for use by the Corps' motor unit.
Before his death, he built a fine house in Bukit Timah Road called Bukit Rose. This was where Ong entertained friends on a lavish scale.
Ong died of heart failure in 1918 at 60 years of age.
Sam Leong Road is named after him.
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Gemini Chit Fund - Singapore Ponzi.
Gemini Chit Fund Landmark fraud case. The Gemini Chit Fund Corporation Ltd was incorporated by Abdul Gaffar Mohamed Ibrahim in 1964 as a private limited company. The chit fund scheme originated in India. Usually practiced in rural societies, it is both a lending and saving scheme in which investors are also borrowers. Members make contributions to a common pool at periodic intervals. At the end of each period, the pooled funds are auctioned and the person with the lowest bid wins. Rural chit fund schemes usually involve ten people.
The Gemini Chit Fund attracted between 40,000 and 50,000 members, and promised high returns on investment. In 1973, Abdul Gaffar was charged with three counts of criminal breach of trust amounting to $3.2 million. The loss resulting from his crimes was estimated at $50 million. In sentencing Gaffar to life imprisonment, trial judge Choor Singh dubbed the case ‘the swindle of the century’. -
Chit Fund? Did they spell wrongly somewhere lol.
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Very good post. Thank you.
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You're welcome.
On a side note, here we can see the failure of the stop at two policy. Perhaps leaders those days were not so bright but the signs were there. If they had studied the then developed countries like france, england and germany, they would have realised that fertility is going to be a problem someday.
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these days, fertility is a problem in practically every country right now. think abt it. back in the 60s', if not for PAP where would singapore stand now? a struggling little 'dot' under the wing of malaysia? think carefully. complaining and complaining so much now which, i agree, is in a sense justifiable, but to simply just throw away all that the PAP has done since the 60s' is something i find wierd. which other party in the 60s' would have done a better job? would u rather have it we became communist under the CP? or maybe suffer taxation and suppression by malaysia? we beat malaysia's economy within a space of less than 40 years, rising from the slums to become Asean's second biggest economy. and now u ask, what has PAP done for us?
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Nobody's throwing away what the PAP has done for us and fyi, we were no slum in the 50s and 60s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw7toyYrqjs
Where have you been staying all these years?
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oh and one more thing, where did you get info that singapore could have become communist?
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Originally posted by Casopia-maplesea:
these days, fertility is a problem in practically every country right now. think abt it. back in the 60s’, if not for PAP where would singapore stand now? a struggling little ‘dot’ under the wing of malaysia? think carefully. complaining and complaining so much now which, i agree, is in a sense justifiable, but to simply just throw away all that the PAP has done since the 60s’ is something i find wierd. which other party in the 60s’ would have done a better job? would u rather have it we became communist under the CP? or maybe suffer taxation and suppression by malaysia? we beat malaysia’s economy within a space of less than 40 years, rising from the slums to become Asean’s second biggest economy. and now u ask, what has PAP done for us?
high time to change, u still playing gole arh?