Bukit Gombak

SG neighbourhood
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englishname=Bukit Gombak
chinesename=武吉甘柏
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pinyin=Wǔjígānbó
malayname=Bukit Gombak
tamilname=புக்கிட் கொம்பாக்

Bukit Gombak is a neighbourhood in the west-central area of the Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore. In the Malay language, "bukit" means hill and "gombak" a bunch or collection of something.

Bukit Gombak is not administered as a HDB new town nor thought of separately from the immediate neighbourhood of Bukit Batok, and thus its boundaries are not well-defined. It is generally regarded as the area around the elevated Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train station of the same name (NS3), including the hills to the east of the station and HDB apartment blocks along Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 and East Avenue 5. The SMRT feeder bus service 945 from the Bukit Batok bus interchange plies the general area.

Places

* Singapore's Ministry of Defence headquarters
* Bukit Gombak Stadium, with capacity 3,000, a running track and some athletics facilities. It was the former home ground for the S.League football club Gombak United.
* Bukit Gombak Sports Hall
* Grace Assembly of God church
* Bukit Batok Town Park and the lake Little Guilin (zh-sp|s=小桂林|p=Xiǎo Guìlín), after the Chinese city with similar scenery but of a larger scale. It is a popular spot for photograph-taking for weddings. There is a nature trail from the Bukit Gombak stadium that rises up the Guilin ridge, ending at Chu Lin Road in the Hillview estate. This allows a view of the lake and the surrounding neighbourhood.
* Lianhua Primary School
* Hillgrove Secondary School
* The condominium Guilin View (zh-sp|s=桂林景|p=Guìlín Jǐng)
* The condominium "The Madeira" near the Bukit Gombak MRT station

Politics

Bukit Gombak was a constituency in the Singapore general elections in 1988, 1991 and 1997. In 1988, the ruling party People's Action Party candidate Dr. Seet Ai Mee defeated the Singapore Democratic Party candidate Mr. Ling How Doong by winning 53.5% of the vote. In 1991, Ling won 51.4% to Seet's 48.6%, and Bukit Gombak became one of only four constituencies held by the opposition. In 1997 Ling lost his seat to the PAP's Ang Mong Seng by over 30% of the vote, and Bukit Gombak returned to PAP control.

In the redrawing of electoral boundaries in 2001, shortly before general elections were held, the area was subsumed under the five-member Hong Kah Group Representation Constituency. The PAP slate comprising Yeo Cheow Tong, John Chen Seow Phun, Ahmad Khalis bin Abdul Ghani, Ang Mong Seng and Amy Khor Lean Suan defeated the Singapore Democratic Party with 79.7% of the vote. In the 2006 general election, it won the GRC with a walkover.

Ang represents the Bukit Gombak division within the GRC. This division includes Housing and Development Board apartment blocks near the Bukit Gombak MRT Station as well as the private estates and condominiums off Hillview Avenue.

References

* [http://www.singapore-elections.com/ge2001/ http://www.singapore-elections.com/]

External links

* [http://www.sbestfood.com/btgombak.htm Bukit Gombak Food Outlets]
*http://sg.pagenation.com/SIN/Bukit%20Gombak%20Mindef/103.7612/1.3725.map
*http://www.samhealth.org.sg/services/gombak.shtml
* [http://www.nparks.gov.sg/parks/loc/par-loc-bt_bat_tow.shtml Bukit Batok Town Park (National Parks Board)]
* [http://www.hktc.org.sg/meet_ppl.cfm?tc_code=JW#Bukitgombak Hong Kah Town Council - Bukit Gombak]