Stamford House

Stamford House, located at the junction of Stamford Road and Hill Street, is an ornate building designed in the Venetian Renaissance style favoured during the Victorian era. Built in 1904, it was designed by Swan and Maclaren architect R. A. J. Bidwell as a commercial entity. The building was better known as a hotel until it was sold in 1963 to a commercial enterprise. It was then acquired by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) in 1984 for conservation and redevelopment. The building will be reopened in the third quarter of 2015 as part of a ...

Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan

Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan (潮州八邑会馆) was established in 1929 as the clan association for Singapore’s Teochew community. It plays an active role in promoting Chinese and Teochew culture and shares a fraternity relationship with Ngee Ann ...

Sim Wong Hoo

Sim Wong Hoo (b. 1955, Singapore – d. 4 January 2023, Singapore) was a Singaporean billionaire technopreneur who founded Creative Technology, a company that designs and manufactures digital entertainment products. Sim served as chairman ...

Otters

Otters are from the Lutrinae subfamily, a branch of the Mustelidae family whose other branches include weasels, badgers and minks. Otters have long sleek bodies suited for hunting fish, crustaceans and shellfish along the coast and ...

Ginger

The ginger order Zingiberales has nearly 3,000 species under its eight related plant families: ginger (Zingiberaceae), canna (Cannaceae), spiral ginger (Costaceae), heliconias (Heliconiaceae), orchidanthas (Lowiaceae), prayer plant ...

Anti-yellow culture campaign

The term “yellow culture” is a direct translation of the Chinese phrase huangse wenhua (黄色文化), which refers to what was perceived as degenerate behaviour, such as gambling, opium-smoking, pornography, prostitution, corruption and nepotism. ...

Ice kachang and ice ball

Ice kachang and ice ball are desserts made from shaved ice and have existed as street food in Singapore from as early as the 20th century. Ice kachang (Malay for “nut” or “bean”) contains jellies, red beans and attap chee (seeds of ...

Typhoid

Typhoid fever, also known as enteric fever, is an infection caused by the Salmonella typhi bacteria and is transmitted through the ingestion of food or water contaminated by faeces and urine of carriers. Typhoid fever used to be an ...

Sandes Soldiers Home

The Sandes Soldiers Home in Singapore was established in November 1949 by the Christian churches, in the tradition of Elise Sandes’s homes for British soldiers. Its premises on Portsdown Road, Wessex Estate, were used by the Singapore ...

Parsi Community

The Parsis (or Parsees) are descendants of Zoroastrian Persians who settled in India in the 10th century. They first arrived in Singapore in the 19th century. As of 2017, an estimated 350 Parsis live in Singapore. Parsi Road and ...

Orchard Road

Orchard Road is a major tourist and shopping belt in central Singapore. It runs 2.2 km from the junction of Tanglin Road and Orange Grove Road to Dhoby Ghaut. Orchard Road is said to have obtained its name from the orchards and plantations ...