I managed to check out the AMD photo exhibition at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore just before it ended on 3 September. Held in conjunction with AMD Awareness Week, the exhibition featured photos by Mr Adam Hahn from Scotland. The concept for these photos was a result of seeing his grandmother grapple with AMD, unable to […]
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Singapore Minister Mentor recently made news when he said there should be no mandatory retirement age. He reiterates his stand in the Straits Times today which carried the headline “MM Lee: If a man is fit, let him carry on working”. The former PM elaborates on his views on work and retirement in the email interview. Click here
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Minister in the PM’s Office, Mr Lim Boon Heng, presenting trophies to the winners Ms Lilian Lim, 62, and Mr Andrew Yap, 59. (Image: Straits Times) The inaugural Mr and Ms Singapore Senior 2010 was a pageant with a difference. It was open only to those aged 50 and above. Contestants were judged not so much
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Teachers in Malaysia have been getting a lot of flak lately, no thanks to some black sheep in the profession who have hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, from making racial slurs to peddling sex enhancement products. Teachers in Singapore, on the other hand, must be feeling on top of the world as the republic
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RHB print ad Am writing this on the express bus somewhere along the north-south highway to Singapore. Just finished browsing the papers. Today being Merdeka Day, there’s plenty of print ads celebrating Malaysia’s 53rd National Day. Proton print ad What struck me as rather peculiar about the ads is that except for one, all of them feature children. Makes me
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The Star 25 August 2010 Every action has a reaction. How we react often depends on our ability to control our emotions and think through the situation to the likely consequences. Some recent examples: The sacking of Filipino maids by some families in Hongkong in retaliation for the deaths of eight HK tourists in Manila.
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It is our parental duty to provide a good education for our children. That can mean right up to post-graduate studies. Scholarships offered by the public and corporate sectors are very competitive, especially in Singapore. Not all parents can afford to support their children through university. To meet this need, both the CPF (Singapore) and the
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I must admit I have never heard of ‘cougar women’ till yesterday while reading the Sunday Times. The fact that the paper carried the article with pictures of local women surprised me. For those as clueless as me, the term ‘cougar women’ refers to older women who are attracted to much younger men. Think Madonna, 51 and her latest toy-boy, Jesus
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Something is not right in our English language classrooms. Despite studying the language for nine years in the public school system, the majority of our high school students leave school unable to write or speak basic English. The situation gets worse when these students move on to local public universities. By then they are so uncomfortable using English
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Source: Bernama My stomach churned when I saw the front page of the Star today. Another two more cases of baby-dumping to add to the 65 cases since January this year, and 472 since 2005. If we don’t find a workable solution soon, there will be hundreds more before year-end. That is the estimated number
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