Daily Archives: 18 Oct 2009

Sengkang rising

Posted on 18 Oct 2009 | 1 comment

It is time to put Sengkang’s ‘ulu’ label to rest – town is 30 minutes away, amenities are plentiful and flat prices have risen in value

Compass Point, Sengkang’s main mall, is adjacent to a bus interchange and near an MRT and LRT station. — ST PHOTO: DESMOND LIM

Retiree Pang Toon Chee, 58, and housewife Tan Geok Hoon, 55, moved into the township of Sengkang two years ago.

The name Sengkang drew sniggers because people thought that it was too far from town. But it was precisely the peacefulness of the area that Mr Pang liked. Continue reading →

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$4.8m dispute: Widow wants to move on

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The property at the centre of the tussle has since been demolished and rebuilt. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM
Madam Chen (left) and her late husband’s elder brother had been involved in a court dispute over a $4.8 million property. — ST FILE PHOTO ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

It has been more than four years since her husband and son died in a tragic fashion, but thinking about them still brings tears to her eyes.

‘It’s like stabbing a knife in my heart each time I talk and think about what happened,’ Madam Chen Tsui Yu, 56, said in Mandarin yesterday. Continue reading →

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