Raffles - British Colonialism at its Best
May 25th 2009 One of my very favorite places in Singapore is Raffles Hotel. If there is one place that epitomizes British Colonialism in tropical parts of the world, that place is Raffles. I kept expecting to see Somerset Maugham coming around a corner. Cool, solid, stately, and elegant, there are many legends around Raffles - and most of them are true. See if you can tell fact from fiction:
Raffles was a
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