SINGAPORE - Meet Chawang, the new animal icon for the Night Safari. The 4.5-tonne male Asian elephant - the largest and heaviest resident in Singapore's wildlife parks - will be to the park what ...

The lion is a reference to Sang Nila Utama, the Srivijaya prince who claimed he named the island Singapura, or "lion city" in Sanskrit, after spotting the animal ... of Singapore, now the National ...