Bintang Temasek


Bintang Temasek is Singapore's most prestigious national honour and was instituted on 24 July 1970.
The badge of the Bintang Temasek may be awarded to any member of the Singapore Armed Forces, the Singapore Police Force or the Singapore Civil Defence Force who has performed acts of exceptional courage and skill or exhibited conspicuous devotion to duty in circumstances of extreme danger. The badge may be awarded posthumously. Recipients of the honour are entitled to use the post-nominal letters BT. The badge is to be worn on the left side of the outer garment suspended from a ribbon. No one has ever received the award since its establishment in 1970. There were suggestions by the public to confer the highest national honour to the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew to mark the 50th anniversary of Singapore's independence but it was never conferred even after Lee's death. However, Lee had conferred the honour to the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk during Lee's state visit to Phnom Penh in 1967.

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