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Kiau Seng / Tionghoa Selat. The Peranakan Chinese ( / pəˈrɑːnəˌkɑːn, - kən /) are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang ( Chinese: 南洋; pinyin: nán yáng; lit. 'Southern Ocean'), namely the British Colonial ruled ports in ...
History. In 1945 , Seng Heng Engineering started as Seng Heng Iron Works producing nuts and bolts in Chinatown, Singapore. It was founded by Lau Kum Kuan. In 1956, the company moved to Geylang, taking up a land area of 1000 square feet and changing its name to Seng Heng Engineering Contractor. It started fabrication of iron grilled gates.
Malaysian Chinese, Chinese Malaysians, or Sino-Malaysians are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese ethnicity. They form the second-largest ethnic group in Malaysia, after the Malay majority, and constitute 22.8% of the Malaysian total population. Today, Malaysian Chinese form the second largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world, after the ...
Largest lake. None. Exclusive economic zone. 1,300 km 2 (500 sq mi) Singapore is a city-state and island country in maritime Southeast Asia, located at the end of the Malayan Peninsula between Malaysia and Indonesia as well as the Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea. It is heavily compact and urbanised.
The Nicoll Highway collapse occurred in Singapore on 20 April 2004 at 3:30 pm local time when a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) tunnel construction site caved in, leading to the collapse of the Nicoll Highway near the Merdeka Bridge. Four workers were killed and three were injured, delaying the construction of the Circle Line (CCL).
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Singaporean Hokkien[ b] is a local variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively in Singapore. Within Chinese linguistic academic circles, this dialect is known as Singaporean Ban-lam Gu. [ c] It bears similarities with the Amoy [ d] spoken in Amoy, now better known as Xiamen, as well as Taiwanese Hokkien which is spoken in Taiwan.
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