 Today, this founding is commemorated in the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall - previously known as Sun Yat Sen Villa or Wang Qing Yuan (meaning "House of the Heavens above" in Chinese) - in Singapore where the branch operated from.According to George Yeo, the Foreign Minister of Singapore, in those days the Kuomintang party flag, which later became the flag of the Republic of China ,was sewn in the Sun Yat Sen Villa by Teo Eng Hock and his wife.Singapore was not directly affected by the First World War (1914–18), as the conflict did not spread to Southeast Asia.