The Singapore Scout Association (SSA) was originally established as the Boy Scouts Association of Singapore on 2 July 1910, two years after the launch of the Scout Movement in Great Britain by Robert Baden-Powell. The idea of starting a local branch of the movement ...
Guy Joseph Janvier Barbe, popularly known as Brother Vincent (b. 1919, Laval City, Montreal–d. 14 October 1992, Singapore), was a missionary who founded Boys’ Town in Singapore. A member of the Brothers of St Gabriel religious institute, Vincent also helped to ...
The former Victoria School (VS) building is an architectural landmark on Tyrwhitt Road in Jalan Besar. The building initially housed the all-boys Victoria School (1933–1984) and later the Christ Church Secondary School (1985–2001) before serving as the People’s ...
The Crescendos were a popular Singapore band of the 1960s. Formed in 1961, the pop band comprised John Chee, Leslie Chia and Raymond Ho, and vocalist Susan Lim joined the following year. It became the first Singapore band to be signed on by an international record ...
Samuel Dyer (b. 20 February 1804, Greenwich, England–d. 24 October 1843, Macau) was a missionary to the Chinese with the London Missionary Society (LMS). He devoted about 15 years to missions in the Straits Settlements, first in Penang (1827–¬¬35), then Malacca ...
Sembawang Road, a two-way road, begins at the junction of Mandai Road and Upper Thomson Road. It ends near the Boys’ Brigade and Girls’ Brigade campsites, both situated opposite Sembawang Park. An important arterial road in northern Singapore, Sembawang Road connects ...
The London Missionary Society (LMS) set up a mission in Singapore in 1819. Besides preaching and running schools, the LMS also started the Mission Press, the first printing press in the settlement. Although the LMS closed its Singapore mission in 1847, Benjamin ...
The Lion City Cup is a youth football tournament for boys. First held in 1977, the Cup has been credited with inspiring the creation of the FIFA U-16 World Championship. The Lion City Cup has featured national youth teams from Asia as well as the youth squads of ...
Ng Yi-Sheng (b. 25 November 1980, Singapore–) is a fulltime writer whose controversial literary works have garnered much critical acclaim. Besides writing fiction, poetry, drama, critiques and non-fiction, he is also actively involved in theatre, with his plays ...
Water polo in Singapore started with a group of boys who just wanted to have fun. However, a sense of camaraderie and team bonding soon pushed them to compete and they eventually emerged victorious. Today, water polo is a national sport.
Bound by Queen Street, Bras Basah Road and Waterloo Street, the former building of the boys’ school, St Joseph’s Institution (SJI), was completed in 1867. The school premises comprised a cluster of blocks built between the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, featuring ...
Chingay is an annual street parade held in Singapore as part of the Lunar New Year celebrations. The term “Chingay” is derived from the Hokkien Chinese term 妆艺, which means “to decorate a frame with incense and boys dressed as girls carried in processions”, according ...