The Bukit Brown Cemetery echoes stories of Singapore’s recent and distant past, and in a country which believes in reinventing itself all the time, those memories are now struggling to remain alive. The government would like to build an eight-lane highway and a mass transit station, with plans for more homes. If the construction goes ahead as planned, many of the graves will be exhumed and the remains will be moved, and a part of Singapore where you can’t find skyscrapers, will get transformed. Read more