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Featured Series – What Inspires You?
How to give and live more
The Live More In A Minute video series comprises of eight videos, and show how people can make the most of their everyday lives. In each episode, it provides tangible tips on how viewers can "live more". In two of the videos, it featured administrative assistant...
Singaporean surgeon dreams of better smiles for children
Between juggling his job as a surgeon at Dream Plastic Surgery Clinic, his responsibilities as a visiting consultant at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and helping children smile again, Associate Professor Vincent Yeow has little time to himself. But he is...
Retired odd job worker now helps seniors in his estate
For more than 20 years, Li De Yan helped to build Singapore with his bare hands. During the growing years of Singapore's construction sector in the 1970s and 80s, he mixed cement, laid bricks and built houses across the country. And for the past two decades, the...
How apps have the potential to save lives
When Becca Hume was 16, she got a part-time job where she met a deaf person for the first time. “I realised how isolated he was at work, so I started learning sign language to be able to talk to him properly,” she says. It made her understand the daily frustrations...
Techie takes long road to an honours degree
Driven by a dream that started at the age of eight, Mr Nicholas Ooi embarked on a long journey through Singapore's education system. He passed through EM3 in primary school, Normal (Technical) in secondary school and then the Institute of Technical Education (ITE),...
Urban farming social enterprise benefits local community
Becoming a farmer in Singapore sounds risky enough, but former digital marketer Bjorn Low decided to take it a step further by starting his own urban farming social enterprise, Edible Garden City. Established in 2012, the company aims to bring people together through...
Youth festival collaboration a feast for eyes and ears
Deftly, the young artists swooped and swirled the sand beneath their fingers, animating it into imaginative pictures while, in front of them, musicians rang out a musical backdrop with handbells. Coming from different schools and of different ages, around 350 young...
Taking care of workers’ mental health
The mental health of workers is usually not a priority for companies but leaders from some large corporations are taking the lead to promote happy workplaces. Representatives of 18 private and public sector bodies have formed a work group that meets every two months...
How a simple dance performance changed these students with autism
Dressed in a myriad of glittering costumes, the students moved energetically, yet gracefully to the strains of the upbeat music. It was a whirl of activity at the Esplanade outdoor theatre, as students from various schools around Singapore showcased the best of their...