by Abriel | Dec 16, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
Siti Noor Mastura’s voice starts quavering as tears well up in her eyes. She stops talking, blinking furiously as she swallows the lump in her throat. The tears drop; her right hand reaches out for a piece of tissue paper on the table. Her chest of painful...
by Christie Lee | Dec 13, 2018 | 2018, Reduced Inequalities
It’s the school holidays and six-year-old Raphael was on a special mission with his father, Mr Shawn Quek, yesterday afternoon. They were out at a construction site in Grange Road to distribute gifts to foreign workers. Mr Quek, who has donated 10 gifts, is a...
by Abriel | Dec 11, 2018 | 2018, Clean Water & Sanitation, What Inspires You?
From ankle-deep mud in Central Asia to the scorching heat of Australia, Mina Guli, 48, is running 100 full marathons (42 kilometres each) in 100 days to highlight a looming global water shortage. Her unorthodox world tour began in New York on 4 November and has so far...
by Abriel | Dec 10, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
In a brightly lit space right next to Khatib MRT station, baristas togged out in striped aprons pull espresso shots and steam milk to create latte art. Meanwhile, customers sip their brew as a large poster near the entrance greets patrons with cheeky puns: “How...
by Abriel | Dec 10, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities
For the past three years, Madam Mai Thi Thien Thanh and her 50-year-old husband Kang Eng Hiang – a couple who run a small stall at Geylang Serai Market – have opened their modest Marsiling Housing Board flat to Vietnamese families with children who are...
by Abriel | Dec 9, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities
A charity here wants to give poor families in Singapore a free staycation as respite from all their woes. The Break Away Holiday Charity is the brainchild of Swiss banker Andrea Meierhofer, who roped in his Singaporean wife Sharin Lim, and their friend Minz Xu to...
