If only the grand steps of City Hall could talk, what stories they could tell! Here is where many of Singapore's historic events took place, including the surrender of the Japanese to the British forces in 1945 and the declaration of Singapore's independence by the then Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew on 9 August 1965.On weekends, you may be able to catch a game of cricket on the Padang (Malay word meaning 'flat field') -the city's oldest untouched plot of land used since the 1830's for sport and recreational activities.
