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Chinatown Three years after Singapore was settled Chinatown had 3,000 inhabitants, most of them penniless and half starving immigrants from mainland China. Over the next decade their numbers would grow to exceed 30,000. The living conditions must have been horrid. Chinatown was a relatively small area for such numbers of people. Slophouses, two-story buildings with shops or small factories on the ground floor and living quarters upstairs, were common. Often twenty to thirty lived in a single room. The British did not provide police protection in Chinatown. This was the responsibility of the Chinese guilds, or clan associations, to oversee

Singapore : Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall Sun Yat Sen Villa was built by Cantonese merchant Boey Chuan Poh in 1900-1902, on what was once part of a sugar plantation owned by John Balestier, the first American Consul appointed to Singapore in 1837. The villa was bought by rubber magnate Teo Eng Hock for his mother, Mdm Tan Poh Neo. A fervent supporter of the Chinese revolutionary cause, Teo Eng Hock later offered the place to Dr Sun for his revolutionary activities in February 1906. After the success of the 1911 Revolution, Wan Qing Yuan was subsequently entrusted to the then

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