Walking along Synagogue Road By Paul Raftery Recently we were walking down Synagogue Road when it occurred to me, we live in a wonderful world. As we approach the celebration of Christmas quickly followed by Chinese New Year (6 th February) I reflected we had just celebrated Diwali (the Hindu Festival of Lights) and it felt as if we had just broken bread to celebrate Eid-e-Zahra (the end of Ramadan) Singapore is clearly much more than a cross roads where East meets West but a centre where multiculturism is working. Whilst we regularly talk of Singapore as an excellent place to do business because it is an international centre of arbitration and where contracts are viewed as under English Law with an independent judiciary there is much more to the story. At the suggestion of one of the Tabatinga directors we visited the Peranakan Museum to learn much of the basis of the basis of success and tolerance of Singapore. In the 1700’s across the Malay Straits India and Chinese merchan
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