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Ayer Rajah
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| English | Ayer Rajah |
| Chinese | 亚逸拉惹 |
| (Pinyin | Yàyì Lārě) |
| Malay | Ayer Rajah |
| Tamil |
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 Fusion Polis, a bus park, and the Ayer Rajah Camp at Portsdown Road. The Ayer Rajah Expressway passes through the industrial estate and took the name from the area.
In Malay, Ayer Rajah literally means the "raja's water" or the "king's water". However, there is no historical evidence of a stream nor a royal settlement in the area.
Ayer Rajah is located within the Telok Blangah division of West Coast Group Representation Constituency and the Member of Parliament being Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang since 1997. The Ayer Rajah area 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 western area of Clementi New Town and the West Coast housing estate as well as a portion of the Pandan industrial estate. Now Ayer Rajah SMC is absorbed into West Coast Group Representation Constituency, and the Ayer Rajah division called West Coast-Ayer Rajah with its MP being S Iswaran.
- Victor R Savage, Brenda S A Yeoh (2004), Toponymics - A Study of Singapore's Street Names, Eastern University Press, ISBN 981-210-364-3
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