by Abriel | Sep 4, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
If you order in sign language at Puzzles SG café in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, you get a 10 per cent discount. Even if you do not know how to sign, there is an instruction board at the counter to encourage you to give it a try. Miss Suzana Slemat and Miss Shazlina Sulaiman...
by Abriel | Sep 4, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Madam Annette Chua, was one of five to receive the Exemplary Caregiver’s Award from Club Rainbow for going “over and beyond her duty as an aunt”. On top of taking care of her own son with suspected autism, she is also the primary caregiver for her two autistic nephews...
by Abriel | Sep 4, 2017 | 2017, Quality Education
At Singapore’s Ramakrishna Mission Sarada Kindergarten in Bartley, children as young as five years old have started to take the lead in creating their own short films using stop-motion animation. This technique of using technology to stimulate learning and...
by Abriel | Sep 3, 2017 | 2017, Sustainable Cities & Communities
Singapore has more than 170 eldersitters on board, as at last December, to help take care of seniors suffering from dementia and give their caregivers a break, exceeding the initial target of 160 by 2020. Senior Minister of State for Health Amy Khor revealed this as...
by Abriel | Sep 3, 2017 | 2017, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Houston is no stranger to floods. They occur almost every year, but not on this scale. This year’s epic disaster has triggered a new round of discussion on how coastal cities can adapt to the new threat of increasingly frequent extreme weather events. The...
by Abriel | Sep 3, 2017 | 2017, Affordable & Clean Energy
New research has found the smog and dust that sickens millions across India every year is also sapping solar power generation by more than 25 percent and these huge energy losses will only compound as India realises its grand solar ambitions. The grimy coating that...
