Singapore and the subsequent establishment of British rule saw the rise of secret societies in this small colony. Whilst known as "secret" societies,...

Secret societies in Singapore have been largely eradicated as a security issue in the city-state. However many smaller groups remain today which attempt...

deported from Singapore. The British colonial government classified them as "citizens of an enemy country". Secret societies in colonial Singapore Library resources...

Organised crime in Singapore has a long history with secret societies such as Ghee Hin Kongsi carrying out their activities in the 19th century. These...

connections. Secret societies were banned by the British colonial government in Singapore during the 1890s, and were slowly reduced in number by successive...

Gī-heng kong-si) was a secret society in Singapore and Malaya, formed in 1820. Ghee Hin literally means "the rise of righteousness" in Chinese and was part...

Irene. (1999) Secret societies in Singapore, National Heritage Board, Singapore History Museum, Singapore ISBN 978-9813018792 Singapore Free Press, 21...

Singapore Chinese. His efforts went a long way towards controlling the problems posed by the secret societies then. Pickering Street in Singapore's Chinatown...

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for Singapore between the British Colonial Office in London and the Singapore Legislative Assembly had already resulted in the 1958 State of Singapore Constitution...

By 1905 there were at least 109 Japanese brothels in Singapore. Prostitution was seen by the colonial authorities as a necessary evil but a number of steps...

The concept of race or ethnicity in contemporary Singapore emerged from the attitudes of the colonial authorities towards race and ethnicity. Before the...

noun (e.g. "Taman", "Hill") or adjective (e.g. "Lengkok", "Rise"). In colonial Singapore, road naming was conducted by the Municipal Commission the road...

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It is located about one degree of latitude...

that territory's British colonial period. Protectorates were established in each area of the Settlements, namely Singapore, Penang and Malacca. Each...

Singapore has had an history of armed conflict and personnel dating to the colonial period. The Singapore Volunteer Rifle Corps, a private organisation...

from colonial India to other colonies while their European ancestry trace back to western Europe primarily, although Eurasian settlers to Singapore in the...

many secret societies known as "Triads". In Chinese, the underworld of criminal activity is known as "Black Society". Thomas Dunman witnessed Singapore as...

farmers and Singapore farmers were openly fighting each other. Opium dens controlled by the farmers, spurred up rapidly with the secret societies. The Chinese...

methods of preparing Kopi in Singapore. Kopi traditionally uses Robusta coffee beans. During Colonial Singapore, the Chinese partook in exchanges with Arab...

Malaya, Chinese led by one secret society had clashed in bloody feuds with other Chinese led by rival secret societies. In 1854, bad blood between the...

lived in British prisons in Singapore. Sikh migration to Singapore was popularized by the demand of Sikh police officers and guards in British colonial Malaya...

historians of Singapore. Prior to 1845, the only English-language newspaper in Singapore was The Singapore Free Press, founded by William Napier in 1835. Marterus...

started in July 1861 and ended with the signing of the Pangkor Treaty of 1874. The conflict was fought among local Chinese secret societies over the...

Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three...

Operations in Singapore 1915–1942. Singapore: SNP Media Asia. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-981-4071-02-4. Sareen, T.R. (1995). Secret Documents on Singapore Mutiny...

Chinese Temples in Singapore (1958). Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya: A Survey of the Triad Society from 1800 to 1900 (1959). Favourite Chinese Stories...

informal economy or joining secret societies, which provided security within the kampongs. This autonomy led to the colonial government perceiving the kampongs...

this system when the hands-off approach by the British allowed Secret societies in Singapore to thrive. Although originally formed with legal intentions...

was a high-ranking government position in the civil administration of colonial Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and the Philippines. Office holders...