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Bukit Merah (other)
Bukit Merah is a planning area and new town situated in the southernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore. Bukit Merah ('Red Hill' in Indonesian and Malay) may also refer to: * Bukit Merah (subzone), a subzone within the planning area of Bukit Merah, Singapore * Bukit Merah Lake Railway Bridge, arailway in the state of Perak, Malaysia * Bukit Merah Public Library, a public library located at VivoCity, Singapore * Bukit Merah railway station, a Malaysian train station * Bukit Merah Secondary School, a school in Bukit Merah, Singapore See also * 1982 Bukit Merah radioactive pollution * Bukit Merah, Perak One of two towns in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. District of Kerian, Northern Perak Bukit Merah ( Jawi: بوكيت ميره; ) is a town and a popular tourist destination. It is famous for the Bukit Merah Laketown Resort. District of K ... * Bukit Merah double murders * Bukit Merah Interchange (other) * Jalan Bukit Merah (other) {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah
Bukit Merah, also known as Redhill, is a planning area and new town situated in the southernmost part of the Central Region of Singapore. the planning area borders Tanglin to the north, Queenstown to the west and the Downtown Core, Outram and Singapore River planning areas of the Central Area to the east. Bukit Merah shares a maritime boundary with the Southern Islands planning area located beyond its southernmost point. It is the most populated planning area in the Central Region, and the 12th most populated planning area in the country overall, being home to more than 150,000 residents. Etymology ''Bukit Merah'' translates to “red hill” in Malay, and is a reference to the red-coloured lateritic soil found on the hill. According to the ''Sejarah Melayu'', Singapore used to be plagued by swordfish attacking the people living in the coastal regions. A young boy named Hang Nadim proposed an ingenious solution, to build a wall of banana stems along the coast at the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah (subzone)
Bukit Merah (, ta, புக்கிட் மேரா) is a subzone within the planning area of Bukit Merah, Singapore, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Its boundary is made up of Jalan Bukit Merah in the north; Lower Delta Road in the east; the Ayer Rajah Expressway The Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) extends from the western end of the Marina Coastal Expressway in the south of Singapore to Tuas in the west near the Tuas Second Link to Malaysia. Together with the Marina Coastal Expressway and the East Coast ... (AYE) in the south; and the industrial estate at the end of Jalan Kilang Timor in the west. References Bukit Merah Central Region, Singapore {{Singapore-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah Lake Railway Bridge
The Bukit Merah Lake Railway Bridge or Bukit Merah Marine Viaduct is a double track railway bridge across Bukit Merah Lake in the state of Perak Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ..., Malaysia. Completed in 2013, the 3.5 km double track railway bridge replaced the single track railway causeway crossing the lake. Bridges completed in 2013 2013 establishments in Malaysia Bridges in Perak Rail transport in Perak Railway bridges in Malaysia {{Malaysia-bridge-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah Public Library
library@harbourfront, formerly known as Bukit Merah Public Library, is a public library located at VivoCity, Singapore. It is the largest shopping mall public library in Singapore. History Originally called Bukit Merah Branch Library, it serves the residents of Tanjong Pagar, Bukit Merah, Tiong Bahru and Telok Blangah. The library, which was situated at 3779 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 159462, was officially opened on 28 December 1982 by the then Minister-without-Portfolio and Member of Parliament for Bukit Merah Mr Lim Chee Onn. On 29 December 1982, the library was open to public. It is the first branch library to have an audiovisual (AV) section. The library closed for renovation from 28 December 2004 to 25 February 2005. It was officially reopened by the then Parliamentary Secretary, MINDEF and Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC and Associate Professor Koo Tsai Kee on that same day. On 1 December 2018, the library ceased oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah Railway Station
, other_services_collapsible = , other_services_header = Former services , mpassengers= The Bukit Merah railway station was a Malaysian train station located at and named after the town of Bukit Merah, Perak One of two towns in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. District of Kerian, Northern Perak Bukit Merah ( Jawi: بوكيت ميره; ) is a town and a popular tourist destination. It is famous for the Bukit Merah Laketown Resort. District of K .... It was closed and demolished in 2010 to give way for the construction Ipoh-Padang Besar electrified and double-tracking project. Defunct railway stations in Malaysia Railway stations closed in 2010 Railway stations in Malaysia opened in the 1930s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah Secondary School
Bukit Merah Secondary School (BMSS) is a co-educational government secondary school in Bukit Merah, Singapore. BMSS has established itself as a Value-Added school since 1993, offering the Express, Normal Academic and Normal Technical streams leading to a Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level or Singapore-Cambridge GCE Normal Level certificate. History BMSS was the 101st school built by the government. It was completed and handed over to the Ministry of Education on 28 December 1967. The school received its first batch of students on 4 January 1968 and was officially declared open by Lim Guan Hoo, the Member of Parliament for Bukit Merah, on 16 May 1968. In 2001, St. Thomas Secondary School merged with BMSS and the old school building was demolished to make way for a new campus with better facilities that would cater to the growing school population. In 2004, Delta Secondary School merged with BMSS. In the same year, the new school building at Lengkok Bahru was officially declar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Bukit Merah Radioactive Pollution
The 1982 Bukit Merah radioactive pollution is a radioactive waste pollution incident in Bukit Merah of Kinta District in Central Perak, Malaysia. The outcome of the pollution case took several years to complete with no acknowledgement of responsibilities from companies involved despite the closure of factory in 1994 that become the source of pollution. Background A rare earth extracting company named Asia Rare Earth Sdn Bhd (ARE) was established in 1979 for yttrium extraction in Bukit Merah, Perak with the biggest shareholders for the company was the Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd and Beh Minerals (both with 35% share) together with Tabung Haji and other Bumiputera businessmen owning lesser shares. In 1982, the newly established company began to extracting yttrium from a mineral named monazite which contains different earth elements with radioactive including thorium and uranium. Since the company of ARE starting its operation, residents from a nearby town of Papan b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah, Perak
One of two towns in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia. District of Kerian, Northern Perak Bukit Merah ( Jawi: بوكيت ميره; ) is a town and a popular tourist destination. It is famous for the Bukit Merah Laketown Resort. District of Kinta, Central Perak Bukit Merah ( Jawi: بوكيت ميره; ) is a village with population of 11,000, located near Ipoh , image_map = , map_caption = Location of Ipoh in Perak , pushpin_map = #Malaysia#Asia#Earth , pushpin_mapsize = 275px , pushpin_map_caption = Ipoh in Malaysia , coordinates .... In 1992 and again notably in 2011, it attracted attention for radioactive pollution and health problems due to rare-earth mining in the decade or more before the mine closed in 1992.Bradsher, Keith"Mitsubishi Quietly Cleans Up Its Former Refinery" ''The New York Times'', March 8, 2011 (March 9, 2011 p. B4 NY ed.). Retrieved 2011-03-16. References External linksBuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bukit Merah Double Murders
Sundarti Supriyanto (born 1979) is a former Indonesian maid who murdered her employer and her employer’s daughter in Bukit Merah, Singapore. She was originally in line for the death penalty Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ... when she faced two charges of third-degree murder for the two deaths, which became known as the “Bukit Merah double murders” in Singapore. Subsequently, Sundarti, who claimed to be abused by her late employer prior to the killings, was convicted of lesser charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in Singapore. Her case became known as one of the notable cases where maids had killed their employers or the employers’ kin, and her case was also a legal representative benchmark of the legal defenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
