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Classification
of Generation Groups |
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Name |
Born
between |
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Early
Baby Boomer |
1947
& 1954 |
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Late
Baby Boomer |
1955
& 1964 |
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Gen
X |
1965
& 1980 |
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Gen
Y |
1981
& 1995 |
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News, Articles
& Reports
2005
Registration of Criminals (Amendment) Bill 2005 |
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"We are amending the Registration of Criminals Act
or 'RCA' to allow the record of a conviction kept in the Register of Criminals
for a less serious crime to be considered as spent if the person stays clean
after a specified period... |
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"As we are making a start in this area, we have
decided to do so on a more cautious note, by providing for criminal records to
become spent. In the light of experience gained, we can consider expunging
criminal records in the future..." |
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Singaporeans not eating enough fruit & vegetables |
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Are you eating
enough fruit & vegetables? Find out at: |
| Date |
Time |
Venue |
| 14 & 15 May
2005
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11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Great World
City, Cold Storage Outlet |
| 21 & 22 May
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Jelita, Cold
Storage Outlet |
| 28 & 29 May
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Causeway Point,
Cold Storage Outlet |
| 4 & 5 Jun 2005 |
11.30am 每
3.00pm |
Compass Point,
Cold Storage Outlet |
| 11 & 12 Jun
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Hougang, Cold
Storage Outlet |
| 18 & 19 Jun
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Novena, Cold
Storage Outlet |
| 25 & 26 Jun
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Guthrie House,
Level 1 Atrium |
| 2 & 3 July
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Centre Point,
Cold Storage Outlet |
| 9 & 10 Jul 2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
Venue to be
confirmed |
| 16 & 17 Jul
2005 |
11.00am 每
3.00pm |
North Point,
Cold Storage Outlet |
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IMH upgrades inpatient children psychiatric ward
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Book a barbecue (BBQ) pit at any AXS station ﹛
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Can Singapore always remain clean?: MM Lee |
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"...Whether it is policemen, immigration officers,
customs officers or officers in charge of dispensing licences, it is dangerous
to have them grossly underpaid. |
| "Over the last 40 years,
Singapore has moved towards paying political and civil
service officers 70-80% of what their equivalents are
earning in the private sector, the formula is based on an
average of 6 professions, their salaried incomes based on
the income tax returns. |
| "This has enabled ministers
and officials to live according to their station in society
without extra sources of illicit income..." |
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Former
President Wee Kim Wee dies ﹛
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Singaporeans must adapt and seize opportunities created: PM Lee |
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"...Mindset is
changing. Singaporeans used to shun jobs such as healthcare
assistants in hospitals. Now they queue up for the jobs, and
retention rate is high. |
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"Singaporeans
used to shy about becoming waiters. They asked ＆What if I
have to serve a relative or a friend that comes into the
restaurant?＊ But they are gradually accepting the idea..." |
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More..... |
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Employment Situation in 1st Quarter 2005
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Latest Civil Defence Emergency Handbook now available
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Findings of National Health Survey 2004 ﹛
Monday with
the Editor: Teaching Woes |
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"Handling a class of boisterous Express stream
students is a world apart from handling a class of
out-of-focus NA or NT students. Express stream students may
be noisy and active, but they need the barest of tuning to
keep them in order. |
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"Simple veiled measures such as harping on the
haircut of students who stray work quickly to put them in
line again. On the other hand, NA and NT students, more
often than not, come from dysfunctional families. Some
students are even impervious to caning..." |
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Singapore to have two IRs with a casino each |
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"...We cannot stand still. The whole region is on the
move. If we do not change, where will we be in 20 years＊ time? Losing our
appeal to tourists is the lesser problem. But if we become a backwater, just
one of many ordinary cities in Asia, instead of being a cosmopolitan hub of
the region, then many good jobs will be lost, and all Singaporeans will
suffer. We cannot afford that..." |
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More..... |
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Retrenchment & Re-employment in 2004 ﹛
Monday with the Editor: What if keys to Singapore were
handed over? |
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"As a resident, I am not concerned whose
constituency I am in. All I know is that I am living in Singapore and I expect
fair and equal treatment to be accorded to me. I don't want to be served
first. I am willing to wait. I just want to be served when it's my turn to be
served. And seeing others given the 'official' green light to jump queue makes
me see red..." |
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My Uniquely Singapore Passport 2005 |
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"The Passport offers holders (Singapore residents
or visitors) discounts at 40 Singapore establishments including tourist
attractions, F&B outlets as well as a family-oriented spa..." |
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More..... |
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Singapore Olympians - The Complete Who's Who 1936 - 2004 ﹛
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Monday with the Editor: Glad my home is Singapore |
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"...Forgive me for sounding cruel, but I would say --
jolly well have more such experiences while we are overseas, either on
short-work assignments or holiday trips. These experiences will help us
appreciate things we take for granted in Singapore, as one such experience
helped enlighten the Singaporean visitor to Batam, that 'it is only now that I
appreciate the orientation towards excellence in public service. A similar
incident would not be allowed to happen in Singapore and, even if it did, the
victim would be ensured a proper channel for redress'..." |
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More..... |
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Singapore Public Holidays 2006 Gazetted ﹛
Count on our children to take care of us in our old age? |
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"...I see many
youngsters engaged in animated conversation over who has the
latest mobile phone and I think - at this age, they have yet
to earn money and they are already bowing to peer pressure
and thinking of spending more than pocket change. When they
come into the mainstream of society, will they wise up and
live prudently or will their parents still have to support
them then..." |
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Man jailed for employing foreigners without work permits
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Monday with the Editor:
Second-hand smoke in public places |
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"Just
last month, in a small shopping centre in Hougang, I
saw someone approaching a teenager who was puffing away in the air-conditioned
lobby of the place, just outside a lan-gaming shop. When he told the young man
not to smoke there, the boy retorted, 'I like it, leh!'..." |
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More..... |
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Waiting times at Public Sector Emergency Departments
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Ministry of Manpower fine tunes foreign worker policy
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Monday with the Editor: Of pre-university students and CIP |
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"These boys from Maris Stella were busy running up to the
young and the old. You could see the eagerness in their
faces as they went about their task. Each approach was
energetic, and though some pedestrians did not donate, the
boys were not disheartened. |
| "In these boys, I
saw the same enthusiasm which gripped me as a secondary
student some thirty years ago when I was selling flags for
charity. These boys from Maris Stella were certainly not of
the same grain as the one who took the donation tin to lunch
with his parents..." |
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School fields for public use |
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"Some 50 school fields all over the island will be
available for public use under a scheme to maximise the use of sports
facilities in Singapore... |
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"Members of the public can book the fields for a
small fee; full soccer-sized fields can be booked for $50
per two-hour slots while smaller-sized soccer fields can be
booked for $25 per two-hour slots..." |
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Man jailed for
bomb hoax |
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A man was jailed for 2½ years yesterday for
a bomb hoax. Mak Hoy Meng, 29, had handed
over to an MRT employee two notes which
claimed there was a bomb in one of the
stations. |
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Source: Straits Times 11 Mar 2005 (H6) |
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Student falls
from school building |
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A 16-year-old student of Bedok South
Secondary School was injured after he fell
off the first floor of a building at his
school yesterday. Police are investigating
the incident. |
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Source: Straits Times 11 Mar 2005 (H2) |
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Changes to CCA and CIP for university admission |
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"... it will no
longer be necessary to have a fixed CCA points system for
junior college (JC) and Centralised Institute (CI) students
applying to university from 2007 onwards. MOE will remove
the CCA grading system, PEARLS, for first year students in
JCs starting from this year. |
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"At the same
time, MOE will remove the minimum 6-hour requirement for CIP
for all students in JCs and the CI from this year. The CIP
scheme, introduced in 1998, is now a vibrant feature of JC
life..." |
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AIDS
Epidemic - 311 new cases in 2004: Dr Balaji Sadasivan |
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"...We do not know the reasons for the sharp increase
of HIV in the gay community. An epidemiologist has suggested that this may be
linked to the annual predominantly gay party in Sentosa - the Nation Party
-which allowed gays from high prevalence societies to fraternize with local
gay men, seeding the infection in the local community. However, this is a
hypothesis and more research needs to done. |
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"The reported new cases are only the tip of the
ice-berg. In total, we have more than 2,000 HIV/AIDS patients. But for every
AIDS patient we have diagnosed, there are possibly 2 to 4 undiagnosed patients
with HIV in Singapore. That means there could be, anywhere between 4,000 to
8,000, undiagnosed HIV patients in Singapore..." |
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Smoking ban to cover more public places from 1 Oct 2005
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Monday with the Editor: When parents take their children's
lives |
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"...Every few years in Singapore, the lives of
innocent young children are sacrificed by their parent or parents in the name
of protecting these children who would have otherwise grown up in the absence
of these parents. Is it a noble act in the part of such parents, causing their
young children to die without the chance to grow up, get married, have
children, and then grow old?..." |
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New
biometric passports for Singaporeans |
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"...The
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) plans to introduce
a Singapore biometric passport by October this year. This
new passport will contain the person's unique facial and
fingerprint information. |
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"It
will make use of an inventory control number as the passport
number, instead of the current approach of using the
person＊s NRIC number. This unique inventory number will make
it easier to share information on lost and stolen
Singaporean passports as part of the global effort to curb
passport abuse. |
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"The
validity period will be shortened from the present 10 years
to 5 years, to allow us to incorporate new technologies into
the Singapore passport more rapidly. The biometric passport
will speed up immigration clearance significantly, as well
as deter people from misusing the Singapore passport, thus
upholding the reputation of the Singapore passport, and
facilitating our citizens' travel overseas. |
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"...Minister
elaborated that the fees for the new biometric passport
planned to be introduced by October this year, have not been
determined. He added that the existing passports that have
not expired continue to be valid..." |
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Response given
by the Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Wong Kan Seng at the
Committee of Supply Debate on the Ministry of Home Affairs,
Thursday, 3 March 2005 |
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Source:
Ministry of Home Affairs
Press Release 3 Mar 2005 |
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11,790 Immigration Offenders Arrested in 2004
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Monday with the Editor: Strangers in our own land? |
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"...Yet, today, I have difficulty bringing myself to
talk to strangers, whether they be people of other races or my own race, in
public areas. I hope my behaviour is not representative of a trend taking
place in Singapore. If it is, it begs the question: Why are younger
Singaporeans withdrawing into their own cocoons nowadays?..." |
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Loss of medical talent to the
private sector |
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"These are doctors who have devoted many years of
their lives to public service; good doctors and dedicated teachers. I have
expected them to retire in public sector. Why are they now in private
practice? |
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"Within the Ministry, there seems to be a view
that the "loss of doctors to the private sector is not a loss, for as long as
they continue their practice in Singapore". I do not agree with this view.
The loss of good teachers and clinicians from the public sector is a big loss
to Singapore... |
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Notification of Release of 2004 GCE O-Level Results
- Singapore
Crime Situation 2004 ﹛
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Monday with the Editor: Competition from China whiz kids |
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"Rather than worry about the influx of talent that
could threaten their children's future, our Singaporean parents should see
these China whiz kids as a necessity for local schools, for our own students,
having outdone their own kind at school over the past decades and not having
worthwhile competition to spur them on to greater heights, can now count on
these brilliant China kids to pace them into greater excellence..." |
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Singapore Budget
2005
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Tentative List of Singapore Public Holidays for 2006
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Monday with the Editor: Chinese New Year merry-making |
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"That's when the gambling streak in everyone shows
up, albeit for a fortnight till Chap Goh Meh*. That's also when parents
tolerate gambling among their young. In fact, many parents, grandparents, and
their children join the gambling sessions that go on in almost every Chinese
household across the island, and the world..." |
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Prime
Minister's Chinese New Year message 2005 |
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"...We are making Singapore a great place for
families. Many couples are already benefiting from the Marriage and
Procreation package. |
| "It is too early to assess
results, but I have met many couples carrying young babies,
who tell me happily that they are collecting the Baby Bonus. |
| "And the hospitals have
reported that this year there are more pregnancy
consultations, and many applications to use Medisave for antenatal
packages..." |
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Monday with the Editor: Reliving new year memories |
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"I remember I was in secondary school then, and
living in a three-room flat in Toa Payoh. Back then, with every new Chinese
New Year, each household, whether in an HDB flat or a private residence, would
receive free eggs. |
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"Some received a tray, others were given more
trays of eggs. It was the pig farmers' way of thanking the
households for contributing swill to the pigs the farmers
were rearing..." |
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Employment Situation in 4th Quarter 2004 ﹛
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Rising Expectations of Singaporeans |
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| ※Do not just promise welfare
benefits but show people the price tag. Explain how you are
going to fund this for the people, how are you going to pay
the bill, and who is going to pay the bill. |
| "And if you impose such a
bill on Singaporeans, which Singaporeans will stay to pay
it? And which Singaporeans will say, ＆thank you very much,
I＊m off. There are so many other countries in the world
where the taxes are cheaper＊＃ |
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Monday with the Editor: Boys at Morning Express are back! |
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"...Yes! it was just a joke. Did it backfire on the
trio? I am happy that the boys are back. I can hear news that I would
otherwise have not been privy to. |
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"For instance, this morning, I heard Glenn Ong sharing with listeners an incident he witnessed at the National Stadium
during the recent Tiger Cup Finals. He mentioned that the wife of one of the
Singapore players had trouble coming in because her 3-year-old kid did not
have a ticket for the match..." |
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Conditions
of Employment 2004
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Release/detention of persons involved with JI and MILF
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Parent
complains about 'taupok' game in JC
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Monday
with the Editor: Pet Island - Singapore Pets Online
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Tsunami Disaster Memorial Service on 9 Jan 2005 ﹛
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Monday with the Editor: Still envy our children? |
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School starts today for more than 500,000 children
across the island this new year. As these children stream back to their
schools and begin looking around in their new classrooms, some of them may
notice a classmate or schoolmate missing. |
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And they may realise that the
tsunami which took place far from our shores over the holidays has something
to do with that student's absence from school... |
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