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Armenian community in Singapore tells its story with new museum
Heritage Centre aimed at raising awareness of role as one of S'pore's oldest communities
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Melody Zaccheus
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Armenians are behind some of most commonly-used machines today - including the automated teller machine and magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. They were also pioneers in plastic surgery and colour television.
In Singapore, members of this diaspora include Catchick Moses who started The Straits Times in 1845, the Sarkies who founded Raffles Hotel in 1887, and Agnes Joaquim who in the late 1800s hybridised Singapore's national flower, the Vanda Miss Joaquim.
