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Seeking to Save Chinese History in Singapore

Seeking to Save Chinese History in Singapore

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Mar 21, 2012
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Develop or preserve? That’s a question that is always asked in Singapore, a densely-populated country with very little space to make use of. With a government that has always opted for the most “pragmatic” response, the answer has often been to develop.

But when the government first announced plans to demolish a part of Bukit Brown cemetery to make way f…

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