23
April
2019
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21:25
Asia/Singapore

Sea storms that could have cut short Singapore’s port history

Senior Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs, Dr Maliki Osman, opened a two-day conference on ancient harbours at NUS on 23 April 2019. The conference, Singapura before Raffles: Archaeology and the Seas, 400BCE-1600CE, was organised by the Dept of Southeast Asian Studies at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and supported by the National Heritage Board, in support of Singapore’s Bicentennial.