Tag: Stamford Raffles
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 26, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Singapore Sling-off It’s been a while since we were in Singapore so we had been quite looking forward to getting back there this month. We had been amusing ourselves with thoughts about minding the platform gap again, but the MRT was full of very pushy people…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 13, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Skulduggery and Other Local Habits The benefits that accompany living in Bali – or anywhere in Indonesia – far outweigh the demerits of doing so. The culture is inclusive, at least on a superficial level that satisfies most tastes; the people readily return a smile to…
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Raffles Revealed, in a Javanese context
Indonesians are apt to say they wish their former colonisers had been the British instead of the Dutch. It is a comment anyone who lives in the country, and who talks to ordinary people, hears at least once, if not repeatedly. The argument goes that if the British had run what later became Indonesia there…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Dec. 12, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences What a Stinker Sir Stamford Raffles is a footnote in history for having identified a swampy and malarial island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula as the site of the future New Serenissima (Venice) nowadays known as Singapore. He is due that credit. He’s also…
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