05 January 2019
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- Four S’pore Pioneers Join Raffles in Bicentennial Project
Four S’pore Pioneers Join Raffles in Bicentennial Project
The statues of Sang Nila Utama, Tan Tock Seng, Munshi Abdullah and Naraina Pillai were installed on Thursday in a project commissioned by the Singapore Bicentennial Office. They were officially unveiled yesterday. Mr Kwa Chong Guan, a senior fellow at RSIS, noted that different groups of men and women came to Singapore through trading networks, similar to other port cities such as Melaka in the 15th century and Venice in the 16th century. He added that these people contributed to its success as a port city.
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