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In the 1950s, the land that Ngee Ann City sits on was a burial ground, owned and managed by Ngee Ann Kongsi. It was part of a parcel of land known as Tai Shan Ting, which was bounded by Orchard Road, Paterson Road, and Grange Road. A ten-storey Ngee Ann Building was then built on the site, and was demolished to make way for Ngee Ann City.
Ngee Ann Building. Ngee Ann Building was a building on Orchard Road in Singapore housing both shops and apartments. Built by the Ngee Ann Kongsi and opened in 1957, the rent collected from the building enabled the organisation to establish the Ngee Ann College. It was demolished in 1985 to make way for Ngee Ann City.
The Ngee Ann Kongsi (Chinese: 義安公司 or 义安公司; pinyin: Yì Ān Gōngsī) is a charitable foundation in Singapore and governed by the Ngee Ann Kongsi Ordinance of 1933. [1] It is one of many Overseas Chinese Kongsi , or clan associations, that were set up by immigrants from China in the late 19th century.
Orchard Road, often known colloquially as simply Orchard, is a major 2.5 km (1.6 mi)-long road in the Central Area of Singapore. [4] A famous tourist attraction, it is an upscale shopping area, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, shopping malls, restaurants, and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. [4]
Orchard MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station in Singapore, on the North South (NSL) and Thomson–East Coast (TEL) lines. Situated along Orchard Boulevard and underneath ION Orchard, the station serves various commercial and retail developments of the Orchard Road shopping district, including Liat Towers, Ngee Ann City, Wheelock Place, Wisma Atria and Shaw ...
Ngee Ann (義安) is a former Teochew term for Chaozhou, China, and may refer to the following places in Singapore: Ngee Ann City, a shopping and commercial centre located on Orchard Road. Ngee Ann Polytechnic, an institution of higher learning. Ngee Ann Secondary School, a secondary school in Tampines. Ngee Ann Primary School, a primary school ...
260,000 square feet (24,000 m 2) No. of floors. 5. Website. forumtheshoppingmall.com.sg. Forum The Shopping Mall (Chinese: 福临购物中心, Tamil: பாரம் அங்காடி ) is a shopping mall on Singapore's main shopping belt, Orchard Road. It was built on the site of the Singapura Forum Hotel. It is owned by Hotel Properties ...
Alice Wong (黄陳小萍), former Minister of State for Seniors; the first Chinese-Canadian woman sitting in Cabinet. Singapore. Seah Eu Chin (佘有进), Founder of Ngee Ann Kongsi, was a made a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Grand Jury. Tan Soo Khoon (陳樹群), former Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore.