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The Pulau Senang riots was a case of armed rioting and murder that happened at the Singaporean island of Pulau Senang, where a reformative prison settlement was operated by the government of Singapore to imprison and rehabilitate secret society members, as well as to avoid prison overcrowding at Changi Prison.
Colony of Singapore. Colony of Singapore (1946-1963) 11 December 1950 - Maria Hertogh riots (18 dead, 173 injured) 13 May 1954 - 1954 National Service riots (26 injured) 12 May 1955 - Hock Lee bus riots (4 dead, 31 injured) 26 October 1956 - Chinese middle schools riots (13 dead, more than 100 injured) 22 April 1963 - City Hall riot [6]
The Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response ( SPEAR) is a department within the Singapore Prison Service (SPS). SPEAR is a highly trained elite force that is deployed in various high risk special operations [1] [2] and prepared to quell any riots or fights within the prisons. It assists SPS officers in handling non-compliant inmates ...
40. Charged. 33. The 2013 Little India riot took place on 8 December 2013 after a fatal accident occurred at SST 21:23 at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in Little India, Singapore, causing angry mobs of migrant labourers from South Asia to attack the bus involved and emergency vehicles that had by then arrived at the location.
Garena is a Singaporean game developer and publisher of free online games. It is the digital entertainment arm of parent company Sea Ltd, which was formerly named Garena.. The company distributes game titles on Garena+ in various countries across Southeast Asia and Taiwan, including the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth, the online football ...
Pulau Senang is an 81.7-hectare (202-acre) coral -formed island in the Republic of Singapore, located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) off the southern coast of the main island of Singapore. Along with Pulau Pawai to the northwest and Pulau Sudong further behind Pulau Pawai, it is used as a military training area for live-fire exercises carried out ...
The anti-riot vehicle is one of the most well-recognised icon of the Singapore PTU amongst the local population, commonly referred to as the Ang Chia (literally "Red Vehicle" in Hokkien). The Police Tactical Unit (PTU) is a paramilitary specialist unit of the Singapore Police Force and comes under the direct command of the Special Operations ...
The riot can also be explained as a spontaneous response to events surrounding the National Service Ordinance. Singaporean historian, Thum Ping Tjin , argues that the National Service Ordinance was actually supported by the Chinese, based upon Chinese press reports that recalled the heroic defence of Singapore by volunteers in 1942. [1]