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The Whampoa Archive is a website brought to you through the joint collaboration of faculty from the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, in partnership with the Committee for Successful Ageing (ComSA). The project is funded by a research grant from the National Heritage Board, Singapore.
The purpose of the Whampoa Archive is to document, preserve, make available the appreciation for the collection of objects owned by Whampoa elders and to support the development of a private collection to a public legacy.
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We reserve the right to deny access to this Website, or any service provided via this website, to anyone who, in our sole judgment, violates these Terms or interferes with the ability of others to enjoy this Website.

You agree not to use any “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program or algorithm or any manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor the Website or its Content.
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