Mr Shenton and his road



 
Mr Shenton and his road
Mr Shenton is a real person of Colonial Singapore. Obviously a British Official. The books of Battle of Singapore has some brief Mention of  him, something got to do with Finance and Tax Stuff. Today it is the Golden Mile, No factory No Goods, but all the Financial Banks and Corporates HQ do their Number crunching and meetings here.

Finance Banking and Corporate Service are one of Singapore Key Strength. Indeed some even move their Asia Region HQ here instead of Shanghai for various commercial strategic reason. Local Banks of course will  Base here obvious. And surprise to some even some Public Agency has Sky Scraper here, like NTUC - it is actually a Labour Union. ( That is another story)

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