sentences:  The total population of Singapore then increased to 16,000 by 1829, 26,000 five years later, and 60,000 by the beginning of 1850.Chinese migrants started to enter Singapore from the Straits area and southern China to trade just months after it became a British settlement.Later migrant workers from China would also increase considerably to work on the pepper and gambier plantations, with 11,000 recorded in one year.