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Singapore at Night

Today Singapore is a world centre for trade, shipping and tourism, but two hundred years ago it was just a small island off the coast of Malaya with only a few fishermen living there.

Stamford Raffles was an Englishman who helped build Singapore. Raffles, the son of an English sea captain, was born in Jamaica in 1781. Because his parents were poor...