by Abriel | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018, Quality Education, What Inspires You?
Czech supermodel, entrepreneur and philanthropist Petra Nemcova, 38, was in Singapore recently to attend a fund-raiser for the Indonesian arm of her charity, Happy Hearts Fund. She started the charity – which rebuilds schools in areas that have been impacted by...
by Abriel | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
For over 20 years, Australian Kate Hood had a glistening career as an actress, writer and director. However in 2002, at age 43, her world crumbled when she was diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia, a genetic disorder that progressively weakens the legs. What...
by Abriel | Mar 24, 2018 | 2018, Good Health & Well-being
Hospitals such as the National University Hospital (NUH) are stepping up efforts to combat the scourge of latent tuberculosis (TB), in which people, usually aged 50 and over, unknowingly are carriers of an inactive form of the disease. Two in three of new cases...
by Abriel | Mar 22, 2018 | 2018, Climate Action
Singapore may envision itself as a zero-waste nation, but new statistics show the country still has some way to go to achieve this. Despite the slew of measures to make recycling easier, people recycled less waste last year compared with the year before. The National...
by Abriel | Mar 22, 2018 | 2018, Good Health & Well-being
It is not only 61-year-old retiree Harold Tan who struggles when he takes his intellectually disabled daughter Dawn to a polyclinic. Doctors are also ill-equipped to communicate with the 22-year-old because people with intellectual disabilities are less able to...
by Abriel | Mar 19, 2018 | 2018, Sustainable Cities & Communities, What Inspires You?
The first time 10-year-old Jordie Rowland came into the barber shop it was a “disaster,” barber Lisa Ann McKenzie said. The stimulation of a haircut can be painful and terrifying for some children with autism, like Jordie. “I felt that I’d...
