"Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency" & "Ayer Rajah SMC" redirects here. For the Telok Ayer Rajah and Ayer Rajah Road in Penang, see Street names of George Town, Penang.
Ayer Rajah is an area located in the Queenstown Planning Area in the South-West part of Singapore. It comprises an industrial estate that houses several high-tech corporations and factories. The headquarters of StarHub Cable Vision is located in Ayer Rajah, together with its cable television and internet divisions. The area also houses several flatted factories, the Fusionopolis, a bus park, and the Ayer Rajah Camp at Portsdown Road. INSEAD Asia campus and the One North MRT station are new additions to the area. The Ayer Rajah Expressway passes through the industrial estate and took the name from the area.
[edit] Etymology
In Malay, Ayer Rajah literally means the "raja's water" or the "king's water".
[edit] Politics
The area of Ayer Rajah is located within the Telok Blangah division of West Coast Group Representation Constituency[1] and the Member of Parliament being Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang since 1997, it was never located in the now defunct Ayer Rajah Single Member Constituency during its existence from 1980 to 2006.
Instead, the SMC consisted of the area of Pandan Gardens, Teban Gardens and West Coast housing estates as well as a portion of the Pandan Loop industrial estate. Since 2006, the Ayer Rajah SMC ward has been absorbed into the West Coast Group Representation Constituency[1], and the Ayer Rajah division called West Coast-Ayer Rajah[1] with its MP being S Iswaran.
West Coast Group Representation Constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "MPs of West Coast GRC". West Coast Town Council. http://www.wctc.org.sg/MTPS.html.
- Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore's Street Names, Eastern University Press, ISBN 981-210-364-3
