It’s the year of the horse, according to the Chinese calendar, and I’m happy to report that as we gallop into the new year, BiblioAsia has plenty of new and interesting stories for you to graze on. Our cover story looks at the milk drinking...
e formative years of the legendary singer, actor and lmmaker P. Ramlee unfolded in Singapore, a city he not only helped to enliven through his presence and artistry but also captured with enduring vividness in his songs and lms.
In a BiblioAsia Podcast episode, writer Samantha Boh tells us how civil servant Lee Ek Tieng and his team at the Ministry of Environment overcame the challenges of cleaning up the Singapore River.
Arabs of Singapore: 200 Years On; e Albatross File: Inside Separation; and e Benjamin Sheares Story: From Pioneering Gynaecologist to Singapore President are some of the new books available at the National Library.
Rather than being unilaterally kicked out in 1965, the decision that Singapore should separate from Malaysia was a mutual one, driven in large part by the e orts of Singapore’s Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee.
Piecing together the Singapore narrative before Ra es is not easy but the sources are there, just waiting to be discovered.
Lee Kip Lee’s friendship with the Japanese military judge who lived next door was a friendship that endured even a er the war.
In the 1970s and 1980s, primary school children were encouraged to drink milk in school. By the late 1980s, this initiative had curdled.
