Exhibition Contents

Picking up from where the first decade of independence has left off, the exhibition focuses on the main themes of Nation Building:

Linking Bridges and Strengthening Ties

• Strengthening Regional Ties for Regional Peace
• The Gulf Region
• Fostering Ties with the People’s Republic of China
• Continuing Bilateral Ties
Feature story:

1. Solving Bilateral dispute diplomatically - Pedra Branca
2. Sixth member of ASEAN - Brunei Darussalam

Defence in the second decade: Rise of reservist power and Modernisation of Defence Technology

• External Threats: Communism Looms
• Friendly Forces: Strengthening Regional Defence Relations
• Turbo-Charging the Armed Forces
• Fit To Fight: Reservists on the Frontline

A Safer Home For All : Internal Security Matters


• Down with Drugs!
    Feature story: The Glue that became a Sticky Problem
• Partners in Crime-fighting: Increased Police-community cooperation in preventing crime
  
• Strength From Within: Civil Defence in Singapore
      Feature story:
  1. Total Defence
  2. Painful Lessons Learnt
• Strength From Within: Civil Defence in Singapore
      Feature story: The Spyros and The Cable Car accidents: Painful Lessons Learnt



Building on the Economic Miracle


• Expansion of Infrastructure in the Next Decade
• Bringing Industrialisation into The Next Decade
• The “BEST” in You and Me: Skills Upgrading for workers
• Wage Correction Policy
• Building an International Financial Centre and Improving Local Banking
• Expanding Trade Links
• Strengthening Sea, Air and Land Communications
• A Surprising Tropical Island on Earth

    Feature story:
1. Moving the Clock Forward
2. The Great (MRT) Debate
3. 1985: A Watershed Year for Singapore’s Economy



A Healthy Nation, A Thriving Land


• Health Still Matters
- Putting Order into Health: Health Legislations
- Healthily Ever After: The 20-Year National Health Plan
Feature story

1. His Life Began in a Test-Tube
2. When Two is no longer enough: Changing trends in Population Policy








• Our Environment, Our Home
- War on Water Pollution: Mother of All Cleaning Campaigns
- Expanding Drainage, Sewerage and Sanitary Networks
- Food Paradise Under One Roof
- Together, We Can: Public Education Campaigns
- Green Thumbs in Action: Garden City in the Making
Feature story

2. “The future of the Singapore pig looks to me to be very bleak.”- Goh Keng Swee, Parliamentary Debate, 12 March 1984
   
3. Gardening could once save you $300 in tax rebates!



Housing A Nation: Changing Times, Changing Needs


• Better Homes and Better Environment for the People
• Small and Cosy: It Begins with a Precinct
• The HDB Way of Life: Building Community Spirit
• Face-lift for Older Estates
• Relocation of farming Communities
• Under One Roof
• Growing Roots: A Home to Own
Feature story:

1. Cash for Crops
2. 4D for Everyone



Sports and Culture: The Finer Things in Life	Sports For All Culture for Everyone Caring for the Aged Sports and Cultural Venues of the Decade The People's Association......Bringing Sports and Culture to the People Feature story: The Sport that Delivered the Kallang Roar



Education for All…On Different Paths

• New Ways of Learning
• Plugging the English Gap with SAP
• Moulding Character Through Moral Education
• Grooming the Gifted
• The Junior College Boom
• Expanding Tertiary Education in the Second Decade




• Feature story: Speak More Mandarin and Less Dialects