Punggol New Town

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Punggol New Town (simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: B ng''é X nzhèn) is a Housing and Development Board (HDB) new town in Punggol, within the North-East Region of Singapore.Punggol Point or Tanjong Punggol appears as Tanjong Rangon on Franklin and Jackson''s 1828 map of Singapore. Punggol, also spelt as Ponggol, means "hurling sticks at the branches of fruit trees to bring them down to the ground" in Malay. It could also refer to a place where fruits and forest produce are offered wholesale and carried away. These possible names indicate that Punggol was a fruit growing district. The place is said to take its name from the river Sungei Ponggol. Yet another interpretation is that it is a rendezvous point for those who await the wholesale agent who buys and takes the produce to the market.Ponggol also means "a stump of a tree", especially "a high stump". There are suggestions that the word is Tamil (Pongal, "the feast of the boiling rice", is celebrated when the sun enters the sign of Capricorn), but the word is clearly Malay and not Tamil.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786130951009
• ISBN-10: 6130951000
• Artikelnr.: 29881635