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New research centre to focus on Singapore's pre-modern history
It replaces another centre that had links to India's famed Nalanda University
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Dr Terence Chong (left), head of the Temasek History Research Centre, and archaeologist Tai Yew Seng, a visiting fellow at the centre, with artefacts from the Empress Place excavation. The centre will get $400,000 a year from the Temasek Foundation for three years.
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Melody Zaccheus
The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre (NSC), set up in 2010 to research pre-modern maritime trade between South Asia and South-east Asia, has shut down - cutting off yet another link to India's Nalanda University.
Replacing it will be the new Temasek History Research Centre, which will focus on Singapore's pre-modern history. It opens today.
