by Abriel | May 23, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
About $12,322 was raised for charities at Singapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) sixth Charity Carnival on 22 May 2017. The annual bazaar, which was held in the media company’s auditorium, saw 500 staff coming together to support 26 charitable causes. Fourteen...
by Abriel | May 23, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
13 volunteers from Singapore environmental group People’s Movement to Stop Haze (PM.Haze) were in Sungai Tohor, a small coastal village in Riau province, earlier this month. They worked with residents to construct a “canal block” – used to...
by Abriel | May 23, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
Nearly nine in 10 people say they are ready to make changes to their standard of living if it would prevent future climate catastrophe, a survey on global threats has found. The survey of over 8,000 people in eight countries – the United States, China, India,...
by Abriel | May 22, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Mr Muhammad Fazli Hasri, 29, works at Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s (TTSH) Foot Care & Limb Design Centre, helping others to find a way to overcome their challenges, like he did barely two years ago, when he walked out with a new artificial right limb. Patients...
by Abriel | May 22, 2017 | 2017, Decent Work & Economic Growth
A slum area in Central Java, Indonesia, has become an unlikely tourist attraction, as well as a social media hit, after its houses were painted in vivid colours to transform the district into what is now being called Kampung Pelangi, or Rainbow Village. It underwent a...
