In Hougang there are larger shopping malls such Hougang Mall and Heartland Mall and smaller ones like Kovan Centre, Hougang Point and Hougang Green Shopping Mall. Play a part in the lives of needy ones at the many charity organizations in Hougang. There is Surya Home, a nursing home for mentally ill elderly located behind IMH. SIRLA is a rehab centre for recovered leprosy patients, also situated in the area. Within the IMH compound there is a Salvation Army branch and also Pelangi Home. Defu Industrial Park is Hougang’s primary industrial area. Consisting of low-skill manufacturing such as furniture production, automobiles and ice, these businesses generally does wholesale instead of retail although at times, clearance sales are held for the general public.
Introduction/History - Hougang
Hougang comprises seven sub-zones: Hougang, Trafalgar, Rosyth, Lorong Ah Soo, Tai Keng, Defu Industrial Park and Sungei Serangoon. The name “Hougang” is the literal Hanyu Pinyin for ‘Ow Kang’, which means “back of the river” in Hokkien, a Chinese dialect. Formerly, Hougang was a village populated by Chinese Teochew or Hokkien immigrants. The British sealed off a place known as Trafalgar in Hougang in 1928. Now known as Buangkok, it houses the hospital being used for chronically and mentally ill patients. The hospital was named Woodbridge after a small wooden bridge beside the site. It has since been rebuilt and renamed the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). There are many HDB flats in the main Hougang area, as well as HUDC flats, condominiums and private houses in Lorong Ah Soo and Rosyth. Kampong Buangkok is the last village in Singapore. One of the distinguishing old-fashioned features of Kampong Buangkok is that it uses generators for electricity instead of power plants.
In Hougang there are larger shopping malls such Hougang Mall and Heartland Mall and smaller ones like Kovan Centre, Hougang Point and Hougang Green Shopping Mall. Play a part in the lives of needy ones at the many charity organizations in Hougang. There is Surya Home, a nursing home for mentally ill elderly located behind IMH. SIRLA is a rehab centre for recovered leprosy patients, also situated in the area. Within the IMH compound there is a Salvation Army branch and also Pelangi Home. Defu Industrial Park is Hougang’s primary industrial area. Consisting of low-skill manufacturing such as furniture production, automobiles and ice, these businesses generally does wholesale instead of retail although at times, clearance sales are held for the general public.
In Hougang there are larger shopping malls such Hougang Mall and Heartland Mall and smaller ones like Kovan Centre, Hougang Point and Hougang Green Shopping Mall. Play a part in the lives of needy ones at the many charity organizations in Hougang. There is Surya Home, a nursing home for mentally ill elderly located behind IMH. SIRLA is a rehab centre for recovered leprosy patients, also situated in the area. Within the IMH compound there is a Salvation Army branch and also Pelangi Home. Defu Industrial Park is Hougang’s primary industrial area. Consisting of low-skill manufacturing such as furniture production, automobiles and ice, these businesses generally does wholesale instead of retail although at times, clearance sales are held for the general public.
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