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  Yishun New Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yishun New Town is an area of Singapore.
The Lower Seletar Reservoir may be found there.
New towns: Ang Mo Kio New Town
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yishun_New_Town   (64 words)

  
 Yishun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yishun, or Nee Soon as it was initially christened, is a suburban town in the northern part of Singapore, encompassing the Yishun Planning Area, in the North Region, which includes Yishun New Town and the Nee Soon private residential estate.
Yishun is the Mandarin version of Nee Soon, named after the "pineapple king" and rubber magnate, Lim Nee Soon (b.
The Yishun Industrial Park is a small industrial park situated between Avenues 6 and 7 which comprises some well known companies such as Murata, Maxtor, Agilent, Avago Technologies, ATS, ASM-Frontend, STATS and many other smaller companies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yishun   (542 words)

  
 Tampines New Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tampines New Town is a HDB new town located in eastern Singapore.
The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) of the United Nations awarded the World Habitat Award to Tampines, which was selected as a representative of Singapore's new towns, on 5 October 1992.
The award was given in recognition of an outstanding contribution towards human settlement and development.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tampines_New_Town   (107 words)

  
 Housing and Development Board - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1980, a quota wasintroduced to ensure that no particular racial group concentrated together to preventracial polarisation,although a CIA World Factbookreport criticizes it for lowering the value of property as it made selling HDB flats more difficult.
To prevent social strafication that may lead to social conflict, the housing of different income groups is mixed togetherin estates and new towns
In late 90s, the HDB concentrated on the upgrading of existing older flats, installing new facilities such as lifts that stop on every floor.
www.world-knowledge-encyclopedia.com /?t=HDB   (258 words)

  
 List of planned cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country.
Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
New Communities built privately or with state-aid from the 1960s and 1970s
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_planned_cities   (515 words)

  
 Yishun New Town in 1990
Located in the northern part of the island, Yishun New Town is approximately 16 kilometres from the Central Business District (CBD).
It is bounded by Yishun Avenue 1 to the south, Sembawang Road to the west and Admiralty Road East to the east.
Yishun New Town is planned with particular attention on streetscape, special block design and colour to identify each neighbourhood.
home.pacific.net.sg /~jihadi/yishun.htm   (88 words)

  
 Housing and Development Board - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
To prevent social stratification that may lead to social conflict, the housing of different income groups are mixed together in estates and new towns
In the 1990s, the HDB concentrated on the upgrading of existing older flats, installing new facilities such as lifts that stop on every floor.
HDB's headquarters was previously located at Bukit Merah, and recently has moved to its new premises HDB Hub in Toa Payoh.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/HDB   (441 words)

  
 Town Attractions - Woodlands
It is bounded by the Bukit Timah Expressway to the west; Seletar Expressway to the south; Sembawang Town to the east; and Straits of Johor to the north.
New low-density housing, including landed housing, are planned for the area.
Apart from the existing Woodlands Town Garden, a new Woodlands Regional Park stretching the entire length of Riverside Road, is planned close to the Woodlands Regional Centre and existing homes.
www.yishuntown.com /town_woodlands.htm   (540 words)

  
 Toa Payoh New Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Toa Payoh New Town is the second oldest new town in Singapore, developed since 1962.
It is home to the HDB Hub and hosts one of the country's two air-conditioned bus interchanges, the other being the one in Sengkang.
One would recall that Toa payoh New Town actually started off as a self-contained town in 1964, where facilities such as shopping centres, schools, clinics, community centre and bus terminals were located.
www.tocatch.info /en/Toa_Payoh_New_Town.htm   (189 words)

  
 Yishun MRT Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is the northernmost of 2 stations serving Yishun New Town and is part of the North South Line.
Links within Yishun New Town and to other parts of Singapore are available at the nearby Yishun Bus Interchange.
This was brought up in a debate during a session of the parliament, during which new security measures were proposed, especially on for the MRT system itself.
72.51.33.237 /cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi/010110A/uggc/ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Lvfuha_ZEG_Fgngvba   (255 words)

  
 Welcome to YTSS Online
Yishun Town Secondary is one of a few schools which is offered a fully functional and brand new holding campus while the existing premises are being upgraded.
Yishun Town Secondary School will undergo PRIME in 2006 to provide a physical environment that is conducive to teaching and learning.
Yishun Town will function at a holding school at 61 Sembawang Drive, Singapore 757622 from 2006 onwards.
www.ytss.moe.edu.sg /aboutus/prime.asp   (576 words)

  
 Public Libraries Section - Country Report: Singapore 2001/2002
Woodlands is one of four regional centers in Singapore, with an estimated population of 250,000 in Woodlands new town itself, and a surrounding population of some 450,000 people in the neighbouring new towns, namely, Yishun and Sembawang.
WRL chose nature and ecology as its theme for décor and library programming, as the library is located in the north of Singapore, in the midst of large spaces of nature and near the Singapore Zoo, the Kranji and Seletar Reservoirs, and the Sungai Buloh Nature Park, also a bird sanctuary.
We are exploring introducing a completely new concept of DIY (do-it-yourself) library to enable the library to open 365 days a year, 10 am to 10 pm daily.
www.ifla.org /VII/s8/annual/cr0102-sg.htm   (1153 words)

  
 HDB oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
To prevent social stratification that may lead to social conflict, the housing of different income groups are mixed together in estates and new towns In the 1990s, the HDB concentrated on the upgrading of existing older flats, installing new facilities such as lifts that stop on every floor.
In New Zealand, public housing, known as state housing, was introduced in 1937 for citizens unable to afford private rents.
In many of the world's poorer countries there are extensive slums or shanty towns, such as the favelas of Brazil, typically built on the edges of major cities and consisting almost entirely of self-constructed housing built on terrain seized and occupied illegally.
www.oddd.org /en/HDB   (10555 words)

  
 Chris Report - 09-07-2001
With new so-called audiophile labels offering the new digital resolution to reproduce high sound quality from the silver compact disc, we in Singapore, experience new audiophile outlets from the late 1980’s through the 1990’s and even now a new audiophile outlet has just opened.
At the heart of Singapore Northern satellite town, Yishun, on the third level at Northpoint Shopping Centre, Audiophile Heaven opens to cater to audiophiles and offer a new breath of experience and selection of both audio compact disc and DVD music and movie titles.
Whenever a new outlet is opened, it is just like a new hi-fi component being introduced into the market and that excited everyone.
www.1388.com /news/chris_report/13-07-2001   (501 words)

  
 Housing and Development Board - tScholars.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1980, a quota was introduced to ensure that no particular racial group concentrated together to prevent sectarianism.
Size is usually denoted by the terms such as four-room, five-room or similar, and is based on the number of rooms in addition to the living room.
They were moved to its new premises at the HDB Hub at 480 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh on 10 June 2002 [1].
www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Housing_and_Development_Board   (867 words)

  
 yax-491 Road names as markers of history
Then there followed a longish period through the 1970s and a little beyond when a large number of new towns were built, from Bedok and Tampines in the east, to Clementi, Ghim Moh and Jurong in the west.
But you should note that even when a new town had a name originating from Chinese, the tendency was to use the most common dialect pronunciation.
Other recent new towns, such as Choa Chu Kang and Yew Tee, have similarly retained their dialect names, and have even retained the way they have traditionally been written, with spaces between syllables.
www.yawningbread.org /arch_2005/yax-491.htm   (3505 words)

  
 Articles - HDB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Size is usually denoted by the terms such as four-room, five-room or similar, and is based on the number of rooms in addition to the living room but newer five-room come with only 3-rooms and dinner room.
Average floor sizes was decreased for new flat build around year 2000 but with premium design finishing except 3-rm unit.
Buying a new flat through HDB can be done by three different modes, Build To Order, Walk In Selection and Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme.
www.techize.com /articles/HDB   (838 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Hawker
...a news release, the company said the new aircraft include a Falcon 50 jet, which will be based at New Castle County Airport in Wilmington, Del., and a Hawker...
New Zealand produced a promising opening with clinical passing and physical presence at the Hawker Oval pitch but it took little time for the Australian...
Besides, the new Vision School in Seremban Dua is quite far from here and if we were to participate, this would only burden the parents." Lee, a hawker, said...
nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Hawker.shtml   (2680 words)

  
 Town Attractions - Sembawang
It is bounded by Johore Straits to the north; Simpang to the east; Yishun Town to the south-east; Mandai to the south; and Woodlands Town to the south-west.
The town is served by Sembawang MRT station, which is integrated with the bus interchange and Sembawang Town Centre.
Residents can expect the growing Sembawang Town Centre to come abuzz with more life as mixed use developments on a new White site will be integrated with Sembawang MRT station and a new bus interchange.
www.sembawangtown.com /town_sembawang.htm   (631 words)

  
 Welcome to Aroma Bodyworks
Proceed to Yishun Bus Interchange to take Bus No. 171 and alight at the 4th bus stop, next to Khatib Camp along Sembawang Road.
If you are coming by taxi or driving from town, you should take the CTE (towards Ang Mo Kio) and exit Upper Thomson Rd, and then turn right into Sembawang Road.
DO NOT use Yishun Exit unless you know Yishun New Town very well.
www.aromabodyworks.com /location.html   (176 words)

  
 Wired News: Beantown Truants: Look Out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Students and their parents in Boston have not been alerted of the new system for tracking truant students.
But for a year already, administrators at the Yishun Town Secondary School in Singapore have been sending parents a short text message on their cell phones every time their children skip school.
Sony's new handhelds: Sony, which has taken a bite out of Palm's dominant share in the PDA market, introduced two new handheld computers in the United States.
www.wired.com /news/wireless/0,1382,51513,00.html   (657 words)

  
 No Place Like Home - Chapter Four (continued)
Water from Yishun and Ang Mo Kio is also channelled via this scheme to the Lower Seletar reservoir, and thence to Bedok reservoir.
It was therefore hardly surprising when it was announced in September 1995 that Toa Payoh, which was Singapore's first comprehensive satellite town, would be the first housing estate to be redeveloped as an entire estate under the HDB's Estate Renewal Strategy.
Perhaps the best news about the PCN is that, because the tracks are built above existing drainage sewers, there is no opportunity cost in terms of additional land being taken up.
homepage.mac.com /voyager/NoPlace/ctlb.html   (3334 words)

  
 The Year in Buses - SgWiki
From 1984-1986, 200 new Leyland Atlantean AN68/2R and 200 Mercedes O305 double deckers were added giving a grand total of 720.
Meanwhile, TIBS purchased new Nissan Diesel U31SCN buses for services to the newly developed Yishun New Town.
New corporate colours chosen and its fleet were repainted accordingly.
www.sgwiki.com /wiki/The_Year_in_Buses   (1403 words)

  
 WORLD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ARCHIVE - sgj00002
In September last year, he broke into 12 schools in the Yishun area under the cover of darkness.
The school bookshop, in the canteen of Yishun Institute of Education, was not safe either.
LIWATSARI Saibi was jailed nine years and given five strokes of the cane for four charges of housebreaking by night and consuming morphine.
www.corpun.com /sgj00002.htm   (2239 words)

  
 Singapore Photo Gallery
This area of Singapore is fast developing into a new housing estate, but there are still traces of nature left in this part of the island.
Photographs of the journey along the famous Punggol Road located at the Sengkang area as it heads from the housing estate of Sengkang New Town to the beautiful open countryside of Punggol and finally to the seaside area along the Straits of Johor.
There is a very beautiful place called Punggol Park located at the crossroad between Hougang New Town and Punggol New Town adjacent to the beginning of Punggol Road.
www.geocities.com /meesiam99/spore.htm   (747 words)

  
 Yishun Town
When you are applying to join this MSN group, please DO state your name and class in the application note, or else it is very hard for me or any other managers to accept you in.
Please do ask anybody to join this MSN group, whether they are still schooling in Yishun
Town, or they have graduated and still feels that they are part of the school !!!
groups.msn.com /YishunTown   (213 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Keh
The fact that Singapore never let down its guard is comforting news to ordinary Singaporeans like businessman Dan Keh, 28.
Said President, Yishun New Town, Merchant and Hawker Association, Keh Lam Lee: "If there are a lot of people, we will be satisfied.
The latest news important to the Bioinformatics and Biometrics industries.
nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Keh.shtml   (440 words)

  
 Anglicans Online - New This Week
'Slightly more than two millennia ago, in the night sky over a small hill town south of Jerusalem, something happened, or didn't, and whatever it was, or wasn't, was an honest-to-God miracle, or a naturally occurring astronomical phenomenon, or neither, or both.
ECUSA reports on a conference of fl Episcopalians; Attila the Nun reaching the end of her chain.
(Luckily for us in the News Centre their newspapers are still full of news about religion).
morgue.anglicansonline.org /991219/new_this_week.html   (1175 words)

  
 Yishun New Town Singles at Date.com
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 Yishun New Town Christian Dating, Yishun New Town Christian Singles, Yishun New Town Christian Personals at Date.com
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Date.com is a FREE online christian dating service for Yishun New Town singles.
www.date.com /christian-dating/singapore-yishunnewtown.htm   (328 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Yishun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Yishun; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Yishun   (666 words)

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