When you have spent a good part of your life working 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, you can’t wait to retire. But retirement is not all bliss, as many older folks have discovered. Sure, it’s great to be able to laze longer in bed in the morning. The day is yours to […]
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Just read in the Straits Times yesterday that KEPPEL Corporation CEO received a whopping $11.5m in pay for 2009. The figures may pale in comparison with the remuneration of the world’s top chief executives, but RM26.36m a year or RM2.2m a month is not a sum to scoff at. Rewards and remuneration are extremely generous for top
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Delegates at the recent 2-day Ageing Asia Investment Forum were given a virtual tour of housing options for retirement living in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, India, Philippines, China, Singapore and Malaysia. If the statistics released by Singapore’s Housing Development Board are representative of living arrangements preferred in Asia, then housing developers here would
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Day 2 at the 50plus Active Ageing Carnival: Singapore’s older citizens certainly know how to enjoy their golden years. From rock-climbing to belly dancing, these silver-haired seniors were game for almost anything. Who cares if the flab shows or the bones creak a little, we are having fun! That’s the message these retirees seemed to
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The 50plus Active Ageing Carnival is back at Suntec, Singapore, for the second year. Probably the biggest gathering of senior citizens I’ve ever seen under one roof. Loads of fun activities for the young-at-heart. I only had time to attend the talks today. Well, not too late. There’s still one more day to go. More pictures and updates tomorrow.
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Have you seen this video clip from Al Jazeera? I can’t believe the tone of voice and the expression on Ibrahim Ali’s face when he referred to the Chinese and Indians as “these people”. Even more shocking is that former PM Dr Mahathir has thrown his support behind Ibrahim Ali’s Malay rights group Perkasa. I
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Browse any newspapers these days and you are sure to find advertisements on how to get rich. These seminars claim that anyone can amass wealth without too much sweat. They guarantee results or you get your money back. These ‘millionaire secrets’ don’t come cheap. Fees can range from Rm250 for a half-day talk by a
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When it comes to achieving a lifelong dream, age is certainly no obstacle for Tan Sri Jins Shamsuddin, 75. After two years of hard work and commuting between Kuala Lumpur and Sintok up north, he finally obtained his PhD last Saturday at Universiti Utara Malaysia’s 23rd convocation. For his doctoral thesis he researched 50 Malay films
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When Charlie Chaplin wrote the lyrics for “Smile” back in 1936, his intention was to give hope to poverty-stricken Americans living through the Great Depression from 1929 to the early 1940s. Now 74 years later, studies published in Psychological Science reveal that smiling doesn’t only make you feel better, it also increases your chances of living longer. Smile, though
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I first heard about World Vision in 2005 while on holiday in Brisbane. Like most people, I read the literature given to me, and that was about it. No action taken on my part. It wasn’t till a month ago when my daughter, Belle, brought up the subject of child sponsorship again. She and her sister, Moon,
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