Colour footage of 1960s Singapore. (Credit: historyogi on TikTok) | The Singapore Conscience

During Singapore’s early years of industrialisation between the 1960s-1970s, many factories 🏭 were built to produce different types of goods for export. The government also gave foreign investors and multi-national corporations incentives to set up locally, boosting employment for the rapidly growing population. This gave rise to the number of industrial estates throughout Singapore 🇸🇬, including Jurong, Redhill, Tanglin Halt and Bendemeer. By 1972, Singapore achieved full employment 📈 and t

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The difference between Malaysia and Singapore 1970s | Only In Malaysia

In the 1970s, Singapore used to rely on the four-digit postal code system. However, this could only generate enough numbers for 10,000 delivery points, which also meant that a large volume of mail had to be sorted manually. SingPost currently uses the six-digital postal code system, which enables the generation of one million numbers to cover all the delivery points in Singapore. Each delivery point — a house, building or block of flats — is given its own identifying number. With this new, expan