by Abriel | Feb 2, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Sign language differs between countries, and the language used here is the Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) which has developed over the past 60 years as a result of working with people who are deaf and of different backgrounds. In SgSL, there are signs for local food,...
by Abriel | Feb 1, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
An events and conference organiser by day, Mr Irza Fauzan Suprapto becomes a football coach on Thursday nights at a street soccer court. The players in his team are aged seven to 16, who comes mostly from lower-income families, living in HDB blocks and nearby estates....
by Abriel | Jan 28, 2017 | 2017, Good Health & Well-being
A group of innovative Temasek Polytechnic final-year engineering students has developed ideas that are targeted at the elderly who have mobility problems. They took existing products and made small improvements to it, so that everyday devices used by the elderly...
by Abriel | Jan 27, 2017 | 2017, Zero Hunger
There are about 1.3 billion tonnes of food waste the world generates each year. the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations affirms that food waste in Europe alone could feed approximately 200 million people. For the past decade, 86-year-old Dino...
by Abriel | Jan 24, 2017 | 2017, Climate Action
With 2016 devoted largely to getting the Paris Agreement ratified and entering into force, attention is now turning to its implementation, alongside the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Established to service the international climate negotiating process,...
