Lost Kampongs in Singapore

Today, we do not have one single village left in Singapore and the last kampong - which is a Malay word for village - here was demolished, I cheered because that was the last of the squatters and we achieved that by 1980. We rehoused the total population and it had multiple knock-on effects.

~ Lee Kuan Yew, 10 Oct 2008
Dialog at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Singapore's International Conference at Suntec with Kishor Mahbubani. The Papers of Lee Kuan Yew: Speeches, Interviews and Dialogues. Gale Asia, 2012.

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