Christmas Island

Hocklez SG

anyone got any idea about it? Heard it belongs to singapore once... rich in minerals and all tt...
the name is so nice... man...

greengoblin SG

Black pepper and chilli crab also very cheap there and very big and fresh Mr. Green

poon cho tang SG

Named in 1643 for the day of its discovery by British seafarer Captain Williams Mynors, Christmas island was annexed and settlement begun by the United Kingdom in 1888 after phosphate was discovered in samples collected by the British ship Flying Fish in what is now Flying Fish Cove. Phosphate mining began in the 1890s using indentured workers from Singapore, China, and Malaysia.

The island was administered jointly by the British Phosphate Commissioners and District Officers from the U.K. Colonial Office through the Straits Colony, and later the Colony of Singapore.

Japan invaded and occupied the island in 1943 and interned the residents until the end of World War II in 1945. At Australia's request, the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty to Australia in 1958.

The first Australian Official Representative arrived in June 1958 and was eventually replaced by an Administrator. Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands together became Australia's Indian Ocean Territories in 1995 with a single Administrator resident on Christmas Island.

Hocklez SG

so truth tt is once belong to singapore?

crazy monkey SG

Belong to British. Singapore still not independent then.

Danisdead101times SG

there got lots of craps~ o0ps...is crabs~ Laughing

kops21 SG

Yes, it belongs to Singapore.

We sold it to Aussie. The one who sold it to Aussie is "called" a traitor during that time. It was a BIG case during then.

Why "this guy" sold it to Aussie, i was informed it was bcos of LKY with complicated reasons.

I got the information from my teacher during college days. He is LKY classmate during NUS days.

Cool

vito_corleone SG

LKY youth days got NUS meh? i tot LKY went to cambridge?

greengoblin SG

When did LKY ever study in NUS??? He must be damn young if that is the case Mr. Green

Dr Who SG

Christmas Island was under the control of Singapore which was under Self-Government (ie self administration except Defence and Foreign Affairs which was still under British)

Chief minister Lim Yew Hock transfered the control of Chrismas Island to Australia for several million dollars. Lim Yew Hock was later voted out and Lee Kuan Yew took over.

Singapore should approach Australia to return the island back....... we will pay back with compound interest........

Singapore was damn stupid.....so small yet sell island away..... the only stupid nation that sell away her territory....... so stupid....worse than third rate african bannana republic........

kops21 SG

Go and check the history book. LKY and wife were from NUS. My teacher is 1 year junior to LKY. Cool

reyes SG

true the island was once belong to singapore and sold by LHY to aussie govt.
my dad use to work as a miner in the island for several years and return to singapore which obviously not a smart move. most resident there are from Singapore and malaysia and almost all have converted into Aussie citizenship.
most work in the mining company and island still remain untouch throughout aussie rule. however recently, there was a refugee camp for the afgans and russia plan to set up a small space station on the island (planning stage).

to get to the island, you can fly to perth and catch a weekly flight to christmas island. note that tickets are not cheap and easily cost more than AUD1500 per trip, min stay 1 week.

red craps still there, though recently of a much reduce scale.
population there reduce to merely 1000+ becoz majority of resident has move to mainland perth to buy houses and move in with their children.

use to have a casino resort there but close down many years ago due to inprofitbility which was own by a indonesian businessman.

How do i know so much?? becoz my wife is a christmas islander. she simply love the island. the last thing she want anything happen to the island is back to singapore adminstration.

forget about the island. no islander want it to be return to singapore and we sold the island not lend to the aussie govt. LHY simply was stupid enough. juz blame our govt. empress CIXI was smarter to load HK and macau to british but we sold it. second stupid besides Russia sold Alaska to USA.

ditzy SG

Its a good thing we don't own it, so M'sia can't talk about it. Laughing

ditzy SG

Go check the history book too, Dr M was from NUS as well. Laughing

KumSioJui SG

we sold it years ago already .. what you want a refund? Rolling Eyes

Dr Who SG

Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock should go to hell for selling away Christmas island.

1. This bloody traitor later MIGRATED to malaysia.

2. After migrated, he CONVERTED to Malaysia's official religion ...ISLAM

3. Jobless, Malaysian Govt made him Ambassador to Australia.

4. In Australia, he disappeared. His wife appealed on TV for terrorist/kidnappers to release him.. ...He was not kidnapped.......he ran away with an Aussie stripper..........big joke on Malaysia........

5 He was removed and spent his remaining years as a nobody in some small kampong.......

Go to Hell, LIM YEW HOCK........stupid Malaysian agent .....we will pee on your grave.......

greengoblin SG

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is founded in 1980, with the merger of the University of Singapore (founded in 1962) and Nanyang University (founded in 1956).

Lee Kwan Yew's CV Mr. Green

Born:
Singapore, 16 September 1923

Education:
Raffles College, Singapore
1942 - 1945 (Spent Japanese occupation in Singapore and Malaya)
1946 - 1949 Fitzwilliam, Cambridge, England
(1969 Honorary Fellow)
1946 - 1950 Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law
(1969 Honorary Bencher)

Activities: 1951 Advocate & Solicitor
Legal Adviser to several trade unions
1954 Helped found People's Action Party (PAP) Became Secretary-General. Held this office, except for brief period in 1957, until November 1992.
Apr 1955 Contested General Election for the Tanjong Pagar Constituency, a working-class dock area, and became one of three PAP Assemblymen. Has remained the representative of Tanjong Pagar Constituency since 1955.
May 1959 PAP won the General Election. Became Prime Minister.
1963 - 1965 One of 15 MPs from Singapore to the Parliament of Malaysia, from 16 September 1963 until 9 August 1965, when Singapore separated from the Federation.
Won General Elections 8 times (1959, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 and 198 Cool under his premiership.
Nov 1990 Resigned as Prime Minister.
Appointed Senior Minister by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
Re-appointed Senior Minister by Prime Minister Goh in 1991, 1997, 2001.
Aug 2004 Appointed Minister Mentor by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Family:

1950
Married Kwa Geok Choo
educated in Raffles College, Singapore
Girton, Cambridge, England
Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law

Two sons: Lee Hsien Loong (1952)
Lee Hsien Yang (1957)
One daughter: Lee Wei Ling (1955)

Recreation: Cycling and swimming.

Source: http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/mmlee.htm

Amongst honorary awards:
First Class Order of the Rising Sun, Japan (1967)
C.H. (1970)
G.C.M.G (1972)
Bintang Republik Indonesia Adi Pradana (1973)
Freedom of the City of London (1982)
The Most Honourable Order of the Crown of Johore, First Class (1984)
The Most Esteemed Family Order, DK, Brunei [The Darja Kerabat Laila Utama] (1990).

reyes SG

good work Dr Who. your background information on Lim Hock yew was indeed valuable but i sure hope it was true. how did you know that?

in fact few ppl in singaporean know much about him and Christmas island. why? probably the PAP now are trying to cover this chapter of singapore history as the unpretty ones. we should put the christmas island issue as a social education for the young ones. to remind one should never sold it motherland away in any circumstances.
we can blame LHY. why didnt the parliament approve it in the first place? can someone elightened me, which party was LHY in?

This is becoming interesting part of singapore history.

iveco SG

Laughing

Dr Who SG

More on Lim yew Hock, seller of Christmas Island:

Lim Yew Hock was educated at RAFFLES INSTITUTION- a fact many ex-Raffles big shots tried to hide........

So RI also produced brainless idiots ...........

He joined the Labour Party of David Marshall, and then formed the Singapore People's Alliance, the Singapore branch of the Alliance coalition led by UMNO in Malaya.

Interpol and Australian Police looked high and low for him for 9 days as a missing VIP. His wife made a tearful appeal over TV.....where was Lim Yew Hock? He was screwing an Aussie Stripper, didn't know he was the focus of an international search.......he became an international laughing stock.....

He later called himself Haji Omar Lim.......and was last spotted playing cards in a small town in Malacca..... .....RI boy.........hah !!!