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Shedding Some Light: Rifle Range Road
by Kevin Lee Leading into a quiet residential area in posh Bukit Timah is a road that doesn’t conjure up images of quiet or residents: Rifle Range Road. But the area does seem to have been a residential area even before the present houses there were built – except that early residents, though living on… »
Shedding Some Light: Jalan Kampong Chantek
by Kevin Lee, with additional research by Ho Chi Tim Off Dunearn Road is a road with a picturesque name: Jalan Kampong Chantek. This road (jalan) once led to a to a pretty (chantek) village (kampong). A search on Google throws up over 500 mentions of the road name, mostly relating to property sales and… »