Singapore's most powerful family at war over decaying ‘bungalow'
The eight-bedroom building at 38 Oxley Road, where Singapore's founder lived for seven decades, is a 127-year-old colonial property, described locally as a bungalow despite its two storeys.
Its silent rooms contain half-packed boxes and rolls of bubble wrap; its narrow strip of garden is jungly and overgrown. Only the bullet-proof glass in the windows and the framed photographs on the walls serve as a reminder of who lived here: one of the great post-colonial leaders, a figure as feared as he was respected.
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Crispy ‘sushi' waffles
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