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ALL THINGS BRIGHT

Anyone who has seen the film will know that today’s Singapore is a city of designer shopping malls and cloud-grazing tower blocks. But strewn among the modernity, you can still find echoes of its past. When the Brits colonised the city state in the 19th century, they cleared the jungle to build bungalows and villas for

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