Xin Ming Road Bak Kut Teh

by Death Kopitiam Singapore

7 June 2025

𝐀𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐡 洪荣生, 𝟔𝟓 (𝐝. 𝟏𝟎 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓) 

Why Singapore banned Chewing Gum

[News Article from 2015 by BBC News Magazine.]

Why Singapore banned chewing gum

28 March 2015

IMAGE SOURCE,THINKSTOCK

By Elle Metz
BBC News Magazine


Lee Kuan Yew, who died on Monday at the age of 91, is famed as the man who turned Singapore from a small port into a global trading hub. But he also insisted on tidiness and good behaviour - and personified the country's ban on chewing gum. What was it about gum he so disliked?

Hotel New World 1986

1986 seems not very long ago.

But it is almost 40 years ago (as of this writing in 2024)

And there was the disaster that was Hotel New World.

Flashback 1931 - Adopting Convent Children

[From Aug 2018]

An application to adopt a young English girl whose father has abandoned her and her brother, and whose mother has passed away due to "consumption" (Tuberculosis).

Child Psychiatry's 50th anniversary

[In Singapore. Children have been having psychiatric problems since time immemorial. It was just that nobody cared!]

This year, 2020, is the 50th year of the Child Guidance Clinic, in Singapore.

It started in 1970 with the first formal and separate set up of a Child Guidance Clinic. 

Though from the newspaper reports, it seemed like it had been in the plans for some time.

As early as September 1954, there was talk of a Child Guidance Clinic to be opened "late next year" (i.e. 1955). This was sort of a follow-up story to the news from a year before (1953) on the same topic.

But Singapore had more important things to worry about then (the 1950s), like getting self-government from the British, and presumably the Brits were occupied with either trying to help Singapore be self-governing (or prevent it?).

Also, communists insurgents.

So in 1966, there was still talk about how Singapore could really use a Child Guidance Clinic. Because one had not been set up.