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Malaysia-Singapore causeway: after 100 years, 'it's mutual lah'

Malaysia-Singapore causeway: after 100 years, 'it's mutual lah'
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Johor-bahru , Johor , Malaysia , Hong-kong , Singapore , Japan , British-malaya , Singapore-general , Seletar , United-kingdom , Malay-peninsula , China

Easing a different Singapore to JB jam 100 years ago

It was a hundred years ago on this very day, the 17th of September 1923, that the Causeway first came into use, when a cargo train made the crossing on tracks laid temporarily on the completed half of rubble mound which had been intended for its roadway. A train crossing the partially completed Causeway in… ....

United-kingdom , Malaysia , Pulau , Perak , Pulai , Gansu , China , Singapore , Malay-peninsula , Singapore-general , Tanjong-pagar , Bukit-timah

Penang's debt of gratitude to British waterworks engineer

OVER a century ago there was a proposal to build a reservoir, which would have flooded a large area of Jalan Kebun Bunga and submerged the whole of Penang Botanic Gardens. ....

Indonesia , United-kingdom , Penang-hill , Pulau-pinang , Malaysia , Penang-island , Tanjong-tokong , South-africa , Port-elizabeth , Eastern-cape , Pulau-tikus , Sabah