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NTU students find way to draw power from wastewater
Singapore's street lights could one day be powered by electricity generated by wastewater sludge. The system that could make this possible was developed by two Nanyang Technological University undergraduates. Called BAE - which stands for Biomass from Activated Sludge...
Undergraduate’s group gives less fortunate students a leg-up
Mr Clarence Ching was thousands of kilometres away in Britain last year studying political studies at Durham University when a debate on inequality and social mobility erupted across Singapore. The former Normal (Academic) student, 24, he noticed that while all the...
Food-saving app aims to cut waste
Up until her early 20s, Ms Christine Yeo had no qualms about wasting food. If a bite of sushi was not to her liking, she would discard the entire serving on her buffet plate. Unused groceries were also left to rot in the refrigerator. Now, the 37-year-old accountant...
Award for IMH nurse who helps patients return to society
When the severe acute respiratory syndrome broke out in 2003, Hu Xiaomei was touched when she saw on television the hard work of healthcare staff. Inspired by their acts, Xiaomei, who was a 19-year-old student in China at the time, enrolled in a nursing course in...
Siblings invent walking stick holder
When Seng Ian Hao was nine years old and his sister Ing Le was seven, they witnessed an elderly woman fall at a hawker centre that changed the course of their young lives. She was trying to pick up her walking stick, which she had leant against her table but had slid...
Teens score on empathy for seniors, disabled people
As a striker for his football team, 17-year-old Imran Naseer is used to outrunning defenders. Yesterday, however, he had to endure moving around at a slower pace. He and some 120 other teenagers from the Woodlands Youth League were tasked with going grocery shopping...
Art started as a refuge to cope with deafness
When Ms Chen Ziyue was in school, she sought comfort in the world of art whenever she was having a hard time. Given her profound deafness, she struggled to communicate with her peers, because of her poor speech clarity and lack of exposure to sign language back then....
Do away with NDP funpacks to cut waste
Those lucky enough to land tickets for the National Day Parade (NDP) and its rehearsal shows are often just as excited to receive the funpacks. But many of the items end up in the bin after the event. In 2014, the organisers said the NDP generated at least 70 tonnes...
Sign language training in the tourism sector
Since January this year (2019), staff at Bouillon Youth Hostel in southern Belgium started taking sign language lessons that is rarely practised in the tourism sector. The woman behind the initiative is Dominique Duchatel, director of the youth hostel chain Les...