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The Choa Chu Kang Cemetery Complex is the only cemetery in Singapore still open for burials.

Choa Chu Kang Cemetery Office

910 Choa Chu Kang Road
Singapore699819
Tel: 6793 7428
Fax: 6793 7400

The website for this cemetery is:

• http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/article.asp?pid=2318

Bidadari Cemetery (Chinese: 比达达利坟场, Malay: Perkuburan Bidadari) is a historical cemetery in Singapore. There are two sections. The Muslim section is at the base of Mount Vernon, bounded by Upper Aljunied Road, Upper Serangoon Road, and Bartley Road. The Christian section is across Upper Aljunied Road from the Muslim section, and bounded by Upper Serangoon Road as well.

Apart from being a place of remembrance, the trails inside Bidadari Cemetery used to be very popular as a running route for members of the Gurkha Contingent. Bidadari Cemetery is no longer in use, and most of the graves have been exhumed for redevelopment. Woodleigh MRT Station now occupies part of the former site.

A website dealing with this cemetery and the Kranji War Cemetery is found at:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cemeteries_in_Singapore

The Kranji War Cemetery (Chinese: ; Malay : Tanah Perkuburan Perang Kranji) is located in Kranji, Singapore, and is the final resting place for Allied soldiers who perished during the Battle of Singapore and the subsequent Japanese occupation of the island from 1942-1945 and in other parts of Southeast Asia during World War II.

There are 4,461 World War II casualties buried or commemorated at this cemetery, of which more than 850 of these are unidentified. There are 64 World War I headstones, of which three commemorate casualties known to have been buried elsewhere but whose graves could not be found on concentration.

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