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  •  1937— the BBC began planning a shortwave transmitting station to relay BBC Empire signals from the United Kingdom to the Far East 

  •  1946 —The British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service began broadcasting  at Jurong transmitting live programmes in English, Burmese, Indonesian and Thai from studios at Singapore's Cathay Building on Thomson Rd.

  •  1949 —These studios moved to Caldecott Hill.  B.F.E.B.S. shared the site with Radio Malaya (Singapore). Operations consisted of live broadcasting in English, Indonesian and Siamese, news editing and monitoring.

  •  Christmas Day, 1949  —The station was again moved to Tebrau on the mainland of Malaya, and control of B.F.E.B. S. was handed over by the Foreign Office to the BBC.

  •  August 1965  —  BBC Far Eastern Service closed down its studio operations in Singapore. It became the BBC Far Eastern Relay Station in 1974, and it is still on the air.

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