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Ang Mo Kio
Ang Mo Kio (Mandarin: 宏茂桥) (officially referred to as Ang Mo Kio New Town, by the Housing and Development Board) is an urban planning area and residential district situated in the North-Eastern part of Singapore.〔()〕 Its noteworthy features include hawker centres, wet markets and HDB housing blocks.
Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong is the Member of Parliament for this constituency.
==Etymology==
The name of the locality is synonymous with phrases in the Hokkien dialect which either relates it as the "Red Tomato", or the "Bridge of the Caucasian". The Caucasian suggested could be a British Lady called Lady Jennifer Windsor. Lady Windsor was the wife of Lord Windsor, a wealthy merchant who had a huge estate in the Upper Thomson Area in the 1920s until after World War II. Ang Mo Kio could also have been named in reference to Mr John Turnbull Thomson, a British civil engineer and artist who played an instrumental role in the development of the early infrastructure of late 19th century Singapore and New Zealand. Old survey maps relate the area as the "Mukim of Ang Mo Kio" (''Mukim'' meaning "area" or "precinct" in Malay).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://eservice.nlb.gov.sg/item_holding_s.aspx?bid=4082509 )〕
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