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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 309: Reflections on Singapore
Description: P&C drink "Watch out for Bears" brown ale from Calvert Brewing, then discuss the history of Singapore.Â
It starts with the East India Company, which wanted a port in this strategic location between the South China Sea and the Strait of Malacca leading into the Bay of Bengal. Commerce between China and India, and then later to the Suez canal, had to come through this area.Â
Singapore was controlled by the British for a time but was captured and brutalized by the Japanese during WWII. After a post-war effort to join greater Malaysia failed, Si...