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According to an article written by Bryan Goh:

After the Speak Mandarin Campaign in 1979, the Housing & Development Board (HDB) started referring to Hougang Town by its Mandarin-based name “Hougang” instead of the original Teochew name “Aukang”. However, the two names do not refer to the exact same boundaries. Present-day Hougang Town is bordered by the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway, Upper Paya Lebar Road, Yio Chu Kang Road and Buangkok Drive. This covers a much larger area than the historic boundaries of Aukang which Rev. Fr. Augustine Tay calls a “Teochew Kingdom”. Tay [was] the first Aukang-nang to become the Parish Priest (2002 to 2007) of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Nativity Church) there.

This “Teochew Kingdom” of Aukang comprised of [sic] numerous kampongs [sic] located from around the 5th milestone of Serangoon Road (around Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre today) to the fishery located at the end of Serangoon Road (around Punggol Park today).5

I reported my findings to my father, but he knew that already.

“Told you that Aukang was a Teochew place.”