On June 16, 1963, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew planted a Mempat sapling – which blooms pale pink sakura-like flowers – at a traffic roundabout in Farrer Circus, marking the start of an island-wide tree-planting campaign.
Ad man Edwin Yeo (above, right) and Singapore Kindness Movement associate general secretary Cesar Balota (in red) will go down in Singapore’s history as the men who “fired” Singa.