$ 1
How much you would have to pay per month for someone to collect your
night soil in 1915. The waste was dumped in various sewage stations,
including Lorong Halus Wetland, which today is a park in Punggol. It was
Singapore’s last night soil disposal station and closed in 1987 (yes, really), marking
the end of the rather icky sanitation method.KAMPONG TEBAN IN TAMPINES ROAD, 1986NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SINGAPORE8
8 DAYSnumbers
ABOUT 5,
No. of graves
relocated in
1978 to make
way for Tampines Town. The former cemetery occupied
the southern portion of Tampines Town, where the
Tampines Round Market is located.STORY (^) WEETEE NEU
24 No. of
days it took for over 100 police
officers, farmers and game
hunters to catch a panther
roaming around Tampines in
- Described as being the size of
a large German Shepherd, the predator
preyed on wild dogs and farm chickens. Of
course, long gone are the animals and even
many of the tempinis trees, after which the
district is named. In an effort to remember
the area’s history, National Heritage Board
(NHB) has launched Tampines Heritage Trail,
one of 17 islandwide trails to encourage the
public to explore key heritage sites.
1
No. of Singaporean-run organised crime
gangs that controlled the European drug
market in the 1970s to 1990s. Known as Ah
Kong, it was one of the world’s largest drug
syndicates, based in Amsterdam and Bangkok.
Most of its members were Singaporean Chinese.26
No. of families still living in
Singapore’s last kampong,
Kampong Lorong Buangkok in
Hougang. The rustic village is about
the size of three football fields.1923
The year Albert Einstein visited a
Jewish community in Singapore,
en route to Japan. The Nobel
Prize winner was said to be impressed by the
coconut palms in Frankel Estate.90
Percentage of Singapore’s
original forests that have
been converted to areas for
settlement, infrastructure,
and financial development,
according to a NTU study.
Additionally, only about
three per cent of our
original tropical rainforests
and one per cent of
mangroves remain. There
are still about 7 million
trees in Singapore.For more info on Tampines Heritage Trail, go to https://www.nhb.gov.sg.