Yishun is the hanyu pinyin of Nee Soon . Lim Nee Soon (b. 12 November 1879, Singapore d. 20 March 1936, Shanghai, China) was a prominent industrialist who made his fortune by establishing rubber and pineapple plantations in the area. Yishun was part of territories inhabited by the indigenous nomadic boat-dwellers known as Orang Seletar – descendants of the orang Laut or “sea people” who lived in boats and made a living as fishermen.4 On maps drawn at the time, the area stretching from Seletar River (Sungei Seletar) to Sungei Sembawang was marked at. This was the old yishun bus interchange where people take buses at last time. It is near northpoint.
