In Popular Culture and Media
- The disaster was enacted in the drama series Finishing Line (出人头地) in 1990 on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
- On 25 September 2003, the disaster was featured in the first episode of the second season of True Courage on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, with the Chinese version of True Courage (逆境勇者) on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.
- On 27 September 2005, Seconds From Disaster portrayed the disaster in the episode "Hotel Collapse Singapore". Instead of the actual site, the program used an image of the area around 88 Syed Alwi Road (at the corner of Kampon Kapor Road) as the basis for a computer-generated reconstruction of the building and its collapse. The episode was retelecast in Singapore on 16 September 2007 via StarHub TV.
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