Monday #sgroundup: Street maps of yesteryears now available to public

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Street maps of yesteryears now available to public

A general view of Singapore. Thousands of letters and publications are kept in the Rare Materials Collection (RMC) …

Redhill Close is currently missing Block 4 as it was reportedly demolished many years ago to make way for a road. Hawkins Road near Sembawang used to host Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. More recently in 2005, the old National Library Building had to be torn down to build the Fort Canning Tunnel.

These places no longer exist but if you are hoping to look them up on a map and identify where they used to be, you might be in luck. For the first time, 23 editions of historical street maps dating from 1954 to 2009 will be available to the public, as downloadable as images, from today.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/street-maps-yesteryears-now-available-public-021526961--sector.html

Five-room flats will not qualify for Lease Buyback Scheme

Flats in Singapore (File picture)

The Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS) was not extended to bigger flats like five-room flats because the government does not want to see Singaporeans living in homes bigger than what they really need, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday and reported in the media.

He added homeowners of such units already have many other options such as renting out rooms and right sizing their homes which they can consider first.

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/five-room-flats-not-qualify-lease-buyback-scheme-014226816--sector.html

Thai PM stacks cabinet with soldiers

Thai Army Chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha smiles during the military anniversary of the 21st Infantry Regiment in Chonburi …

Thailand's coup leader and newly appointed premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Sunday received royal endorsement for a cabinet stacked with soldiers, as the military extended its reach into the kingdom's politics.

Nearly a third of the 32-strong cabinet are senior military officers. Among them are Prayut's close allies and key players in the recent years of political turbulence, including generals involved in the bloody 2010 crackdown on "Red Shirt" activists.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/thai-pm-stacks-cabinet-soldiers-134935017.html

Search for survivors after six die in Paris building explosion

Firefighters and rescue workers inspect the site where a four-storey residential building collapsed following a …

Rescue workers searched throughout the night for two people missing after an explosion ripped through an apartment building outside Paris, killing six and reducing half a residential block to rubble.

Among the victims were a 10-year-old boy and a mother and two children aged 14 and 18.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/four-dead-paris-suburb-building-explosion-200657186.html

Apparent Hollywood hack attack nabs stars' nude pix

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence at the "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" world premiere in …

Nude photos purportedly showing many top stars, including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and pop star Rihanna, bounced around social media, in an apparent massive hacking leak, US media reported.

"It's so weird and hard how people take your privacy away from you," Lawrence said in a tweet on Sunday.

The actress' agent, meanwhile, vowed to take legal action.

https://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/apparent-hollywood-hack-attack-nabs-stars-nude-pix-013137311.html

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