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John Casper Leyden was a student of Edinburgh University, minister, doctor and brilliant Oriental linguist.

This British administrator founded Singapore, conserved Melaka, and administered Java with foresight and tolerance. There was reciprocal love between ruler and ruled.

New travel guides to Singapore appear regularly, but sometimes one comes along written with love and affection for the city together with intimate knowledge of its soul.

IOnce a lazy backwater with a seedy waterfront, today Singapore is a Modern City State an island reaping the benefits of an oil and shipping business allied with tourism

Raffles Hotel and other Raffles legacies feature strongly in the new book by John Malathronas, Singapore Swing, one of few books of travel literature about Singapore

An hour or two to spare? The ethnic neighbourhoods of Singapore will make a change from Mall shopping. Little India and Little China offer colour and smells to delight.

Try out some of these yummy sippers, what I call balcony drinks, from Southeast Asia.

Any budget traveler can enjoy the complex history of Singapore by embarking on a walking tour of its architecture from Raffles Plaza Hotel to Buddha Tooth Relic Temple

This Southeast Asia gem on the Malacca Straits coast has attracted merchants, pirates and colonialists since the 14th century and now tourists flock to sample its charms.

The world's largest and foulest smelling flower, the Rafflesia is a unique plant - not only for its nickname of "corpse flower" but also its strange breeding habits.

The Japanese occupation,1942-45, weighed heavily on Singapore but they do not forget. They promote their historical memory with museums, monuments and commemorations.

Winston Churchill's Asian "fortress" was captured by General Yamashita as a result of inadequate defensive measures, inter-service rivalries, and vacillation.