Hougang Mall Shopping Centre

Hougang is an urban planning area and a suburb in the north-eastern region of the city-state of Singapore. Under classification by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the area is part of the North-East Region, an urban planning division. Hougang borders Sengkang in the north and Serangoon to its south. Development started approximately around the 1980s. Most of Hougang is residential. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard... Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in India. ... Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 675 KB) Summary Hougang Mall Shopping Centre. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 675 KB) Summary Hougang Mall Shopping Centre. ... Singapore is divided into 55 urban planning areas by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, organised into five regions. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... A city-state is a region controlled exclusively by a city. ... The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and one of the departments under the Government of Singapore. ... Sengkang New Town (盛港新镇) is a relatively young satellite residential town in the city-state of Singapore. ... About Serangoon is a New Town situated in the central parts of the city-state of Singapore. ... The 1980s (sometimes refered to as the geighties) in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ... A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is residential. ...

Hougang is regarded as part of the "heartland" of Singapore, a significant distance away from the Central Area. Most of its commercial activity is centred on a few shopping centres such as Hougang Mall and Hougang Festival Market. A distinctive feature of Hougang lies in the large semi-circular balconies which occur in many Housing Development Board public housing flats in the area. These distinctions are rarer in public housing outside Hougang. The Central Area is the collective term for a group of financial and commercial districts in centre of Singapore which was previously otherwise known as the Central Business District and was renamed to accommodate the expanded function of the area. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ... HDB Logo The Housing and Development Board (HDB) is the government agency responsible for Singapores public housing programme. ... A local authority tower block in Cwmbrân, South Wales Public housing or social housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ...

Similar to most other residential towns in Singapore, Hougang was designed to be a partially self-sufficient with enough amenities to minimise strain on traffic to the Central Area. Facilities include a sports stadium where the S.League plays, an aquatics centre, an indoor sports complex, a number of parks such as Punggol Park, along with many wet markets and hawker centres. One of the more prominent landmarks in Hougang is the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). It is served by the Hougang MRT Station. Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else. ... The Olympia Stadium: start and finish lines visible, defining the length of one stadium (in this case 192. ... The S.League is the top professional football (soccer) league in Singapore. ... A wet market is a market that sells live animals in an open environment. ... A food centre in Lavender, Singapore A hawker centre or food centre is the name given to open-air complexes in Malaysia and Singapore housing many stalls that sell a variety of inexpensive food. ... The Institute of Mental Health / Woodbridge Hospital (IMH / WH) is the main hospital in Singapore specialising in the treatment of patients with mental illnesses. ... Hougang MRT Station (NE14) is an underground station on the North East MRT Line, Singapore. ...

Political History

In the 1998 General Elections, Cheng San Group Representation Constituency which comprises large parts of Hougang was the scene of an intense battle between the ruling People's Action Party and the opposition team led by Benjamin Joshua Jeyaratnum and Tang Liang Hong of the Workers' Party of Singapore. Prominent members of the cabinet such as the then Senior Minister Lee Kwan Yew and then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong made numerous visits to the Group Representation Constituency to canvass. The vote was deemed too close to call such that the PAP thought it necessary for ministers to visit the polling stations on voting day. The opposition later charged that the PAP had violated the law which prohibits politicians from being in the vicinity of a polling station but the Attorney-General found no impropriety on the part of the ministers as the law only prohibits politicians from the vicinity of the polling station but not in the polling station itself. A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election. ... The Group Representative Constituency (GRC) system in Singapore is a formal system of social and political committees representing the interests of both the majority and minority social groups within each local island community. ... Party logo with a symbol of red lightning that signifies action. ... The Workers Party of Singapore is one of the largest opposition parties in Singapore, with 1 of the 84 elected seats in the Parliament of Singapore currently. ... The political office of Senior Minister in the political system of Singapore is taken by a Prime Minister when he retires from that office, but still has something to offer the government based on his long experience. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... A prime minister may be either: chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives of... Goh Chok Tong (Chinese: 吴作栋; (Simp. ... The Group Representative Constituency (GRC) system in Singapore is a formal system of social and political committees representing the interests of both the majority and minority social groups within each local island community. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General or Attorney-General, is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ...

Cheng San GRC was broken apart in the 2001 elections and the larger part of Hougang currently falls under the Adjunied GRC. Critics have lashed out at this blatant attempt of gerrymandering. The remainder falls under the political constituency ward with the same name- currently held by by Low Thia Khiang from the opposition Workers' Party- one of only two opposition Members of Parliament. GRC can mean: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Gendarmerie royale du Canada in French) Glenn Research Center Gibson Research Corporation Group Representative Constituency in Singapore Gulf Research Centre Global Relationship Centers This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... Redrawing electoral districts in this example creates a guaranteed 3-to-1 advantage for Party 1. ... Group representation constituencies (GRCs) and single member constituencies (SMCs) are electoral divisions and constituencies within the political system of Singapore. ... Low Thia Khiang ,49, is the Member of Parliament for Hougang, Singapore since 1991. ... The Workers Party of Singapore is one of the largest opposition parties in Singapore, with 1 of the 84 elected seats in the Parliament of Singapore currently. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ...

Language

Many of the Singaporean Chinese residents in Hougang speak the Teochew language, because they were originally from Kampong Ponggol, a predominantly Teochew community, before they were relocated to Hougang as Singapore began developing. However, this is becoming less of a trend as the newer residents come from all over the island. The Chinese constitute more than three-quarters of the countrys population. ... The Teochew, Teochiu, Diojiu, or Tiuchiu dialect (native name: Diô-jiǔ-oē; Guangdong romanization: Dio7 Ziu1; Min-nan (prestige dialect such as in Amoy): Tiô-chiu-oē, Chinese: 潮州话, Hanyu Pinyin: Cháozhōuhuà), is a Chinese language and dialect of Minnan spoken in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong. ... Singapore played a relatively minor role in the history of Southeast Asia until 1819, when the Englishman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded a British port on the island. ...

Geographical History

The area was once a large piece of forested land. Farming of pigs were also done by pig-farmers. The last of these farmers were relocated by the mid-1990s to HDB flats built in Hougang. A dense growth of softwoods (a forest) in the Sierra Nevada Range of Northern California A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded area set aside for hunting). ... The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the September 11 attacks in 2001. ...

Schools

- Serangoon Junior College - - Hougang Secondary School - - Montfort Secondary School - - Ximin Secondary School - - Montfort Junior School - - Holy Innocents' Primary School - - Yio Chu Kang Primary School - - Punggol Primary School Serangoon Junior College (SRJC) is a junior college in Singapore, offering a two-year course for pre-university students leading up to GCE A Level examinations. ... Monfort School A Nazi School? Montfort Secondary school is a Government aided school currently being run by principal Simen lourds in Singapore. ...

See also

• Hougang Planning Area

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