Digitised Straits Times

March 20, 2009

This is pretty exciting.

With the new digitised Straits Times, online search can be easily done online.
This link was a search on the ‘newscape’ from the timeline available from the database (01-01-1845) to the day before the independence of Singapore(08-08-1965). It yield 1457 results.

This link was from 09-08-1965 to 31 Dec 1982. Which is what the best it can offer. It yield only 400 results.

This link was a search during the Japanese Occupation. The search reult is ’0′

You have to go to the library to get the full newsreel. But roughly from the title, we can pretty make out what ‘Bugis’ probably meant during these times. But it will be better if we can have other resources to compare.

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