Posted by admin on Apr 6, 2012
Bukit Brown is the kind of place that could be easily missed in skyscraper-filled Singapore. Bordered by a major highway and several major roads, this 90-year-old cemetery sits in a peaceful, green pocket almost in the centre of the bustling city state.
Believed to be the largest Chinese cemetery outside China, it hosts about 100,000 graves – many belonging to Singapore’s pioneering immigrants and war heroes. But now the place of repose is in the spotlight. The government wants to build an eight-lane road through a part of it.
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