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Heritage@Centrestage Seminar: An Inquiry into Singapore’s Heritage

A Seminar by Educators and Students

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The Cost and Value of Heritage in Singapore: A Pictorial Report

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Forum on The Cost and Value of Heritage in Singapore (14 April)

The Singapore Heritage Society and the School of Law, Singapore Management University invite you to a public forum on “The Cost and Value of Heritage in Singapore: The Belitung Shipwreck and Bukit Brown”

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SHS response to announced road alignment at Bukit Brown

The Singapore Heritage Society’s response to the announcement of the aligned road through Bukit Brown….

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SHS Press Release: Position Paper on Bukit Brown published!

4 February 2012 The Singapore Heritage Society (SHS) has published its Position Paper on Bukit Brown.  Please read and forward the paper to all concerned parties. ———— PRESS RELEASE For immediate publication Singapore, 4 February 2012: The Singapore Heritage Society … Continue reading

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SHS Letter to Sunday Times: Nothing concrete in earlier plans for Bukit Brown

Nothing concrete in earlier plans for Bukit Brown (27 November 2011) Last Sunday’s article, ‘Bukit Brown road project ‘can’t wait”, reported that ‘strangely, the URA said, no one raised a ruckus when plans highlighting the area’s intended future use were … Continue reading

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SHS Letter to Straits Times: SHS efforts in Bukit Brown issue thus far (unpublished)

Dear Sir/Madam, In the article “Lively debate over fate of cemetery” (Sunday Times, 20 Nov 2011), it was wrongly reported that an audience member had asked “Why has the Heritage Society stayed so silent on this issue?”. Our video recordings … Continue reading

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Saving Bukit Brown: An Op-Ed article for the Straits Times

Saving Bukit Brown: An Op-Ed article for the Straits Times (17 Nov 2011) by Terence Chong & Chua Ai Lin In land-scarce Singapore, the tension between heritage and modernity is not unusual, as the on-going debate over Bukit Brown cemetery … Continue reading

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SHS Statement on meeting with Minister of State for National Development Tan Chuan-Jin

Statement by Singapore Heritage Society on meeting with Minister of State for National Development Tan Chuan-Jin (24 October 2011) The Singapore Heritage Society would like to encourage interested members of the public to step forward to help with the documentation process … Continue reading

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SHS Press Release: Clarification on Collaboration Between SHS and URA/LTA, 20 Oct 2011

BUKIT BROWN CEMETERY: CLARIFICATION ON COLLABORATION BETWEEN SHS AND URA/LTA (20 October 2011) The collaboration between the Singapore Heritage Society (SHS) and the authorities up till now has consisted only of connecting LTA and URA with individual experts on Chinese … Continue reading

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