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Funan DigitaLife Mall. / 1.291806°N 103.849500°E / 1.291806; 103.849500. Funan DigitaLife Mall, formerly Funan The IT Mall and Funan Centre, was a shopping centre formerly located near the Civic District in Singapore. Completed in 1985, the mall specialised in electronics and IT -related goods. It was a more upmarket competitor of Sim ...
Singapore Women's Hall of Fame. The Singapore Women's Hall of Fame is a virtual hall of fame that honors and documents the lives of historically significant women in Singapore. The hall is the creation of the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO), and grew out of an earlier nine-member wall of fame that the organization created in 2005.
In July 1994, the Singapore Council of Women's Organisations announced that it had acquired a 30-year lease of the building from the Urban Redevelopment Authority. The council planned to spend $800,000 refurbishing the "run-down" building, which was to house around 20 affiliate associations in addition to the council itself.
19. Fatally stung by hornets. [3] Chua Chu Kang, Singapore. Second Lieutenant (2LT) Tay Seow Kai. 26 August 1970. 21. 2LT Tay grabbed a grenade from a recruit who fumbled while handling the grenade during a live exercise. The grenade detonated in his hand, killing him and causing minor injuries for 2 others.
The Girls' Sports Club ( GSC) was a women's sports club in Singapore. It was founded in 1929 by 12 young Eurasian women as the Goldburn Sports Club and renamed a year later. Among its founders was Zena Tessensohn (1909-1991), who was its secretary from 1932 to 1942, president for 44 years after World War II until early in 1991, and patron ...
Ngee Ann City is a shopping and commercial centre located on Orchard Road, Singapore. The S$ 520 million building was officially opened on 21 September 1993 by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong . Ngee Ann City currently houses the High Commission of New Zealand, on the 15th floor of Tower A.
7 September 2005: Known as the Orchard Road body parts murder, 29-year-old Filipino domestic helper Guen Garlejo Aguilar killed her friend, 26-year-old Jane Parangan La Puebla, who was also working as a domestic helper in Singapore. On 7 September 2005, the two women had gotten into a quarrel over a S$2,000 debt which La Puebla owed Aguilar.
Diamonds -- fake and real -- are perhaps the best example of this. So 30 years ago, when one London-based woman found a huge, gorgeous and fake diamond ring at a car boot sale (almost the ...