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Ayer Rajah is an area located in the Queenstown Planning Area in the South-West part of Singapore. It comprises an industrial estate that houses several high-tech corporations and factories. The headquarters of StarHub Cable Vision is located in Ayer Rajah, together with its cable television and internet divisions. The area also houses several flatted factories, the Fusion Polis, a bus park, and the Ayer Rajah Camp at Portsdown Road. The Ayer Rajah Expressway passes through the industrial estate and took the name from the area. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell(ing) and yin means sound(s)). This article describes the most common variant called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉è¯æ‹¼éŸ³; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; pinyin: Hà nyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme...
The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ...
Tamil (தமிழ௠) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. ...
Queenstown1 is one of the early housing estates in Singapore, built before Toa Payoh and Ang Mo Kio, and was a test bed for much of Singapores public housing. ...
An industrial park is an area of land set aside for industrial development. ...
A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. ...
StarHub Cable Vision is the sole cable television operator in Singapore. ...
Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ...
The Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) extends from the western end of the East Coast Parkway in the south of Singapore to Tuas in the west near the Tuas Second Link to Malaysia. ...
Etymology
In Malay, Ayer Rajah literally means the "raja's water" or the "king's water". However, there is no historical evidence of a stream nor a royal settlement in the area. The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, and parts of the coast of Borneo. ...
A reference to colonization, or the resulting communities. ...
References - Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore's Street Names, Eastern University Press, ISBN 981-210-364-3
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