On 13 February, five days after the invasion of Singapore Island, and with Japanese forces approaching the city centre, he was taken by military police to the waterside and was hastily executed.
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The British authorities on Singapore island met with Chinese leaders, including Seah Eu Chin representing Teochews and Tan Kim Ching representing the Hokkiens, and with their assistance helped to bring the situation to a close.
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Both men finished one stroke ahead of Masters champion Vijay Singh, who celebrated his 38th birthday by shooting 64 on the 6, 751 yard, par-71 Bukit course at the Singapore Island Country Club.
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Initially these had been scattered all over Singapore Island but they were then concentrated in the Sembawang area in the former Royal Navy Singapore Naval Base, leaving 1 RNZIR in Dieppe Barracks located next to Sembawang Airbase.
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The first, between Singapore island off the Changi Coast and Indonesia's Batam island, will run from the eastern terminus determined in the 1973 agreement to an Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore tri-point.
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In anticipation of a Japanese assault across the strait, the Australian forces took up defensive positions in the north-western side of Singapore island, with the 27th Brigade assuming a position west of the Causeway.
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The six reference stations are strategically located at extreme corners of Singapore Island-Senoko, Nanyang Technological University ( NTU ), Keppel, Nanyang Polytechnic, Loyang and Pulau Semakau, so as to provide an extensive coverage.
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In February 1942, with what was left of the Allied forces in Malaya now on Singapore Island, Maxwell's brigade was tasked with defending a 3.5 km stretch of the island's northern coastline.
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The Endau-Rompin park is the size of Singapore island and surrounded by about 150, 000 hectares ( 370, 000 acres ) of rainforest, making it almost impossible to stop poachers from entering, Mohamed Basir said.
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In the days that followed, as the Japanese army drew ever nearer to Singapore Island, the day and night raids increased in frequency and intensity, resulting in thousands of civilian casualties, up to the time of the British surrender.
