CNA revisits five elements of the potential UNESCO World Heritage Site candidate and the historic moments that took place there.
SINGAPORE: The Padang and the structures that surround it tell the story of Singapore, from its early days as an outpost of an empire to its tumultuous birth as an independent country and its arrival on the world stage.
It was here that British East India Company personnel camped in early 1819 as Stamford Raffles and Sultan Hussein Shah signed the treaty that marked the founding of modern Singapore. The parades would return regularly, however, and since 1995, NDPs have been held at the Padang once every five years. The 2019 parade also took place there to mark the Singapore Bicentennial.while redevelopment works transform the regular venue for NDPs, The Float @ Marina Bay, into NS Square.National Gallery Singapore, comprising the former City Hall and Supreme Court buildings, is seen on Mar 9, 2023.
"In return, all we ask for is an honourable relationship between the states and the central government, a relationship between brothers, not a relationship between masters and servants." It has seen some of Singapore's darkest moments, hosting trials for war criminals in 1946 and witnessing the 1950 custody battle for Maria Hertogh boil over into a full-blown riot that would leave 18 people dead.In recent years, however, as Singapore has grown in stature as a centre for culture and sports, it has played a very different role.
A Television Singapura broadcast begins in this still taken from the CNA documentary We Made the News. The early years of the new millennium were exciting ones for Singapore's arts community, with the Esplanade and the STPI workshop and gallery opening in 2002 and the establishment of the future School of the Arts announced in 2004.
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