Kidzania Singapore

From role-play activities inspired by the Year of the Rooster to Chinese New Year art and calligraphy, KidZania Singapore will be celebrating its first Chinese New Year with plenty of festive activities. Be sure to catch the special Wushu performances and Lion Dance City Parade. Just for the special festive season, your little ones can try out being a DJ too.

When: Jan 21 to Feb 12 2017, 10am-5pm

Where: KidZania Singapore, 31 Beach View

Price: Entrance fees apply

Website: www.kidzania.com.sg

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KidZania opens in Singapore

Source: AsiaOne, KidZania

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Science Centre Singapore: Butterflies Up Close

Learn more about butterflies and their lifecycle at what is said to be Singapore’s only indoor butterfly enclosure, where you and your little ones can explore over 16 different species of butterflies. The special Red Lacewing butterfly will be at the exhibition for the Chinese New Year period.

When: Now till Feb 12 2017

Where: Science Centre Singapore, Hall D, 15 Science Centre Road

Price: $10 for adults and children, $8 for senior citizens (Admission charges to the Science Centre apply as well)

Website: www.science.edu.sg

Singapore Philatelic Museum: Chicken and Egg: A Fowl Tale

Explore over 200 stamps dating from 1962 at the Singapore Philatelic Museum’s Chinese New Year exhibition, and learn more about how the chicken has played a role in history. With hands-on exhibits, this exhibition is perfect for the family learn more about the different roles chickens and eggs have in different cultures.

When: Jan 20 to Jun 25 2017

Where: Singapore Philatelic Museum, 23-B Coleman Street

Price: Free

Website: http://spm.org.sg

S.E.A. Aquarium

Embark on the Trail of the Rooster (Hogfish) and learn more about what sea creatures are considered auspicious in the Chinese culture.

The interactive trail lets little ones get up-close with with threatened marine life. You can also catch underwater dragon dance performances daily.

When: Jan 21 to Feb 11, 2017

Where: S.E.A Aquarium, Resorts World Sentosa, 8 Sentosa Gateway

Price: Entrance fee to the aquarium applies

Website: www.rwsentosa.com/seaa

Jurong Bird Park

Learn more about the rooster and its family at the Fowl Trail at Jurong Bird Park, where you’ll find them specially decked out for the Year of the Rooster. If you’re lucky enough, you’ll be able to catch new chick hatchlings at the Breeding and Research Centre too.

When: Jan 28 to 30 2017

Where: Jurong Bird Park, 2 Jurong Hill

Price: Entrance fee to the park applies

Website: www.wildcny.sg

Changi Airport

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Everyone’s favourite critters are here to ring in the Year of the Rooster at Changi Airport. Catch Pokemon characters like Pikachu and Snorlax among the cherry blossoms at T2 and T3, and spend $128 in a single receipt to redeem limited edition Pokemon ang pows too. The kids can also visit a giant display bakery at T3 to see how their favourite Chinese New Year goodies are made.

When: Now till Feb 11 2017

Where: Changi Airport, Airport Boulevard

Price: Free

Website: www.changiairport.com

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Pokemon takes over Changi Airport for Christmas

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ION Orchard

Visit the mall’s Chinese Garden and check out the interactive digital fish pond, where kids can ‘touch’ the fish and lily pads. Your little one can also win you shopping vouchers by counting the number of fishes and turtles in the pond. The roving God of Fortune will be walking around for photos too.

When: Now till 12 Feb 2017

Where: ION Orchard, 2 Orchard Turn

Price: Free

Website: www.ionorchard.com

River Hongbao 2017

Catch acrobatic and dance performances as well as daily fireworks at 9pm. There are also stalls selling both regional and local food, so you can munch on snacks while exploring the lantern displays.

When: Now till Feb 4 2017, 2pm-11pm

Where: The Float @ Marina Bay

Price: Free

Website: www.riverhongbao.sg

Istana Nature Guided Walk

Go on guided walks conducted by NParks volunteers and learn more about the greenery in the Istana grounds. There will also be a Chinese opera performance and puppet show.

When: Jan 29 2017, 10am-4pm

Where: Istana

Price: $2 for children aged three to 12, $4 for adults

Website: www.istana.gov.sg

Sentosa

Visit the 12 Chinese zodiac lanterns at Palawan Green, where each zodiac sign is accompanied by a love story. There will also be stilt walkers in Chinese Opera costumes and a circus act.

When: Now till Feb 26 2017

Where: Around Sentosa Island

Price: Entrance fees to the island apply

Website: www.sentosa.com.sg/cny

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The 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac

Source: The New Paper, AFP

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Esplanade

A line-up of music performances including a guzheng and ocarina performance await at the Esplanade this Chinese New Year. There will also be wooden panels with carvings of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals set up, where little ones can create paper rubbings of the animals with crayons.

When: Now till Feb 28 2017 (performances until Jan 31)

Where: Pip’s Playboc and Esplanade Concourse

Price: Free

Website: www.esplanade.com/free

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Lunar New Year is a special and joyous time of celebration.

Tonight, across Singapore, Chinese families are enjoying reunion dinners with loved ones.

In the coming days, we will visit one another’s homes to exchange New Year greetings.

Over delectable snacks and yusheng, we will catch up with family and friends, especially those we have not seen for a while.

Many non-Chinese too join the festivities, visiting Chinese friends and enjoying the holiday.

Even as the years go by and the world changes, we keep alive these traditions, handed down to us through the generations.

They remind us of what is truly important in life.

What matters is not what we have, but whom we have beside us on life’s journey.

New Year is also a time for thanksgiving and reflection.

We give thanks for the blessings big and small that we experienced this year, whether it is an extra red packet for a new addition to the family, or Ah Boy coming home to reunion dinner with a shaved head, or Uncle’s new job.

We also take a longer look back, to remind ourselves how far our nation has come and what we owe to earlier generations.

Recently, I made pre-New Year visits to the wet markets in Teck Ghee, meeting residents and catching up with the stallholders, many of whom I have known for years.

We remark to each other that we are all growing old.

When we first went to Ang Mo Kio in the early 1980s, it was a brand new town, and we were young adults, starting out on life’s journey.

Now, our children have grown up and we are proud of them.

They are striking out on their own, starting their own families, enjoying many more opportunities than their parents.

The days are long, but the years are short.

While we reminisce, we also look forward, to plan ahead and envision what we will do this year.

Because each New Year is renewal.

Many of us have spent the last few days “spring-cleaning” – sweeping away bad luck to ready our homes for good luck.

This emphasis on renewal is even sharper in this Year of the Rooster, whose crowing signals a fresh dawn.

For young couples, renewal means making a serious life decision to start a family and have children.

The Government is doing all we can to help families do this.

We have substantially expanded preschool, childcare and infant care places.

We are providing more affordable and good kindergartens.

We are shortening waiting times for HDB flats, so couples can set up home and start families sooner.

I hope that the New Year brings with it the lusty cries of many more newborn babies!

One important area of renewal for us all is the economy.

In Singapore, we have always grown by renewing ourselves, taking our economy in fresh directions, opening new markets and fields of business.

That is how we have stayed relevant to the world, vibrant and prosperous.

That is what we must do again now, at this moment when there is such uncertainty in the global environment.

The Committee for the Future Economy (CFE), led by Heng Swee Keat and S. Iswaran, has been working on this for the past year.

It will deliver its report soon, setting out strategies for growth in the next 10 to 15 years.

It will identify new and promising industries and sectors, and plans to ensure that our children and grandchildren will enjoy many opportunities when they enter the workforce.

The Budget will follow up with concrete measures to implement the CFE proposals.

The Budget will also respond to our more immediate economic needs.

Last year, growth was sluggish, although it picked up towards the end of the year.

I hope the pickup will continue through this year.

Economic restructuring is hard work for both businesses and workers.

We know this from experience.

It is not easy for workers to learn new ways to do things or to switch jobs.

Neither is it easy for businesses to change the way they work, or develop innovative products and new markets.

But we have to persevere with upgrading, because it is the only way to improve the lives of Singaporeans.

I am confident we can succeed.

We have done it before, and we have the wherewithal to do it again.

Here in Singapore, we tackle our challenges together.

Government, businesses and workers all play their part, coming together to plan ahead, support one another and seize new opportunities.

This is how our children and their children can dream bigger dreams than us, and live better lives than ours.

It has been so for every generation.

Two weeks ago, I presented an Edusave Merit Bursary to nine-year-old Adam Zafran.

When I met his father, Aziz bin Ahmad, I had a wonderful surprise.

Aziz had brought an old photo of me presenting him a bursary award in 1986, 31 years ago!

The bursary helped Aziz and his family back then.

Now he is doing well, and his son is following in his footsteps, studying hard and doing well in school.

There are many more stories like this one.

Together, they make up our Singapore story, each generation works hard to build a better Singapore for our children.

The New Year is about our future.

Ultimately, it is the future of our children and our loved ones that drives us to give of our best.

Let us approach this Year of the Rooster with renewed determination, vigour and hope, to build our future together.

I wish all Singaporeans a Very Happy Lunar New Year!

This article was first published on January 27, 2017.
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Some parents have voiced concerns that their primary school children are having lunch late due to later dismissal times as more schools switch to a single-session model.

Over the past week, a flurry of letters and comments, both online and offline, has cast scrutiny on how late it can be before children tuck into a proper lunch as more primary schools let them off only between 1.30pm and 1.45pm, instead of around 1pm previously.

A check with the Ministry of Education (MOE) found that about three in five primary and secondary schools now set aside time for pupils to eat packed snacks, like fruit or a sandwich in class, on top of the usual half-hour recess. But parents still worry that their kids are having their lunch too late.

Responding to queries from The Straits Times, MOE said it has been encouraging schools to provide two meal breaks – one longer, one shorter – since 2015. “Students benefit from having short breaks in school to maintain energy levels and focus,” said an MOE spokesman.

At schools that have not introduced a snack break, students can seek permission to have snacks during lessons, MOE added. There are now 182 primary schools here which operate on a single-session model.

Schools dismiss pupils later because of later start times or to accommodate new programmes, such as enrichment activities, in curriculum time, though many dismiss pupils before 1pm about one day a week.

But some parents like Madam June Tan, 43, who has a Primary 2 son in St Stephen’s School, feels that snack time does not suffice.

The boy has a half-hour recess break at 10.15am and a break of around five minutes to eat a packed snack at noon. But she said he can eat lunch usually only after 2.40pm as he has to take the school bus from the school in Siglap to their home in Simei, and is the last to be dropped off.

“It’s difficult for him as he has to go for a few hours without food, and he doesn’t have a good appetite by dinner time as he has his lunch too late,” said Madam Tan, who is self-employed and has given feedback to the school about this.

But other parents like housewife Pauline Kum, 35, are happy enough with the additional snack break.

“We had to get used to the timings but if you plan ahead, you can prepare nutritious snacks that won’t affect their appetite during later meals. They don’t need large portions because they are still young,” said Ms Kum, who has a Primary 3 daughter in Sengkang Green Primary School, where they usually finish school at around 1.45pm.

Unity Primary School usually dismisses its pupils at 1.30pm. Vice-principal Remund Koh said the introduction of a 10- to 15-minute snack break this year has been largely well received by parents and the school is monitoring the situation to see if there is need for adjustment.

“Most of our pupils stay within walking distance from the school and I don’t think there is a need for us to introduce an additional lunch break, which will mean later dismissal times for pupils.”

At Mayflower Primary School, a snack break for pupils at 12.30pm was introduced last year. The principal, Mrs Lim-Chua Siow Ling, said this move was made after feedback from parents.

“Our dismissal time is 1.45pm and a large number of pupils in lower primary take the school bus home. By the time they get back, it can be as late as 3pm,” said Mrs Lim.

With the snack break, pupils will at least have an opportunity to eat something every three hours and keep their stomachs full, she said.

“If parents are concerned about whether a snack is substantial, they can pack something heavier, like a sandwich,” she added.

yuensin@sph.com.sg

This article was first published on Jan 27, 2017.
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To raise the quality of tutors in the billion-dollar tuition industry here, a group of tutors joined hands to form an association last month.

The Association of Tutors (Singapore) said it is also doing this to look after the welfare of tutors and their professional development.

Set up by economics tutor Anthony Fok and nine others, the body also hopes to “professionalise” the shadow education industry, which tutors said helps churn out top performers.

“I believe it is timely to set up an association for tutors to connect and collaborate,” Mr Fok, 32, the association’s president, told The Straits Times. “The ultimate benefit will always be geared towards the interest of students.”

Mr Fok, who has been a full-time tutor for five years, is hoping tutors will attend meet-ups to share best practices, improve teaching standards and network with other players in the education scene.

Mr Fok, a former teacher, is one of a small but growing group of “super tutors” who earn at least $1 million a year in fees.

Private tutors have to register their centres for goods and services tax when their annual revenue crosses that mark.

“Tuition is a global phenomenon, not merely in Singapore,” Mr Fok said. “It is fuelled by ambitious parents wanting their children to secure places at top schools.”

Singapore boasts a reputation as an education powerhouse and its students are world champions.

Last month, the Republic topped a prestigious international benchmarking test.

Singapore’s 15-year-olds were ranked tops for mathematics, science and reading in the Programme for International Student Assessment.

Tutors said they played a part in the success.

Singaporeans spend $1.1 billion a year on tuition, according to the Household Expenditure Survey released in 2014 – nearly double the $650 million spent in 2004.

Mr Fok said: “I am glad Singapore’s tuition scene has not reached the mania in other (places) such as Hong Kong, where celebrity tutors, with their sophisticated hairdos and designer clothing, are treated like idols.

“Parents here choose tutors based on their academic qualifications, their experience and ability to deliver results.”

But to grab a slice of this lucrative pie, tuition centres are upping their game.

Some guarantee A grades for national exams.

Others engage marketing teams to promote the tutors and set up branches in malls.

At least one offers a money-back guarantee if parents are not satisfied with the results.

There are some 600 tuition centres registered with the Education Ministry, up from about 500 in 2011.

Centres with 10 or more students must be registered.

A survey conducted by The Straits Times and research firm Nexus Link in 2015 found that tuition is seen as a necessity – seven in 10 parents enrolled their kids in extra classes.

Parents have longed for a tuition watchdog to flag bad tutors, including those with false credentials.

Housewife Alicia Wong, 43, who has two children in primary school, said: “Hopefully this association will improve the quality of tutors, so we can be better assured that they are good enough to guide our kids.”

National University of Singapore economics lecturer Kelvin Seah said the association may raise the industry’s standards if it supports tutor development – for example, keeping them up to date on curriculum matters and best practices.

“Whether tuition is necessary is debatable, but what is clear is that tuition has grown to be a considerable part of the Singapore education landscape,” he said. “Given the growing numbers of students and private tutors, one cannot afford to ignore the welfare of the latter.”

Dr Seah said while the association could bring greater transparency, it might cause problems too.

“Parents might wrongly perceive tutors who are not members of the association to be of lower quality, or parents may be overly optimistic about the quality of tutors who manage to acquire membership.”

Maths tutor Gary Ang, 37, who is the association’s secretary, said there will always be a few black sheep in an industry.

“But we should not forget the dedicated tutors who quietly helped students achieve their full potential behind the scenes,” he said. “Setting up this association is the first step to formalise this respectable trade.”

calyang@sph.com.sg

This article was first published on Jan 27, 2017.
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Singapore’s privacy watchdog has fined PropNex Realty $10,000 after it inadvertently caused the personal data of 1,765 people to be leaked online. It is the second time the real estate industry has been in the news in the last three years over data privacy issues.

The Personal Data Protection Commission had fined an agent from Huttons Asia $27,000 in 2014 for sending text messages to numbers listed on the Do Not Call registry, which is covered under the Personal Data Protection Act.

The commission started probing PropNex in December 2015 following a complaint from an unnamed woman that her name and mobile number were in an unsecured PDF document freely available online.

She alleged that she and her sisters – whose numbers were also in the PDF file containing a list of do-not-call numbers – had been receiving unsolicited marketing calls and messages from telemarketers, including moneylenders.

In a decision paper issued earlier this week, the commission said PropNex had removed the PDF file in January last year, as told.

But by then, the file listing one item or all of the information – name, mobile number, residential address and e-mail address – of 1,765 individuals had been on the Internet for several months.

The PDF file was first uploaded in July 2015 on a computer system meant only for internal sharing by PropNex agents and staff. But the system had a huge security flaw: Although a password was required to access webpages hosted by the system, no password was needed to access documents such as PDF files.

A simple Google search would reveal the details in the PDF file.

PropNex did not detect the flaw for five months despite having periodic testing of its systems.

It was found guilty of failing to take reasonable security measures to protect the personal data in its possession or under its control. Organisations flouting the Act, in force since July 2014, can be fined up to $1 million.

The commission also directed PropNex to scan the system for more vulnerabilities, and banned the sharing of sensitive files on the system among its agents until the security flaw is fixed.

PropNex’s holding company, P&N Holdings, said the leak was unintentional. PropNex spokesman, Ms Carolyn Goh, told The Straits Times: “Immediately after notification, systems and procedures were enhanced… All such information is now protected with a password.”

Earlier this week, the commission fined JP Pepperdine Group, which operates Jack’s Place and Eatzi Gourmet restaurants, $10,000 for failing to secure a webpage where its 30,000 members’ personal data was hosted.

itham@sph.com.sg

This article was first published on Jan 27, 2017.
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The preliminary job numbers for 2016 released yesterday were telling – and closely watched.

The first nine months of the year set the stage, with unemployment inching up and job growth slowing. In fact, in the July to September quarter, the total number of people employed in Singapore actually fell.

Yesterday’s report for the full year was supposed to tell us just how soft the job market was in 2016, and indicate how it might shape up this year.

The good news first.

The economy may be slowing, but not to the extent of whittling down the number of people who hold jobs.

More people were employed in the fourth quarter of last year – 1,900 more to be precise – compared with the quarter before.

For the whole of last year, there were 16,400 more people holding a job in Singapore, compared with 2015. Of these, 10,700 were locals and 5,700 were foreigners.

But employment did not increase across the board.

In fact, it increased only in the service sector, which saw 43,800 more workers employed last year.

The manufacturing sector shrank by 15,700 workers last year, while the construction sector employed 11,300 fewer people. The manufacturing sector has been shrinking since 2014.

On the salary front, there was some relief for Singaporean workers.

The median income of citizens working full-time rose 0.7 per cent to $3,823 last year, up from $3,798 in 2015.

After taking into account negative inflation or the lower cost of living, the increase was even higher at 1.3 per cent.

One point that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) took pains to underline in yesterday’s report was that the incomes of the bottom quintile of Singaporean workers – the lowest-earning 20 per cent – rose from $1,617 in 2011 to $2,021 last year.

The good news did not extend to foreign workers, who had it rough last year. Foreign employment – the number of foreigners in jobs – fell by 2,500 last year. The number excludes maids. The jobs were shed mainly by the construction and marine sectors.

It was the first time since 2009 that foreign employment fell. That year, at the height of the global financial crisis, Singapore ended up shrinking its foreign workforce, excluding maids, by 8,900.

This is a sign of what foreigners working here can expect. As the economy slows, they will be the first to bear the brunt of job losses.

The bad news is that the tidings for this year are not very cheering.

MOM itself is not in the habit of predicting what the future holds, but analysts are somewhat downbeat.

For last year, the unemployment rate – which tracks the proportion of workers who are willing and able to work but cannot find jobs – was 2.1 per cent. This was the highest since 2010, and up from 1.9 per cent in 2015.

This year could be rougher, as OCBC Bank’s head of research and strategy Selena Ling says that the overall unemployment rate could hit 2.5 per cent.

Even citizen unemployment – at 3.1 per cent last year – was the highest since 2010.

Total employment grew by 16,400 last year, but the growth was the lowest since 2003. It grew even less than during the 2009 global financial crisis.

Even the 1.3 per cent increase in real median income last year was a sharp dip from the 7 per cent increase the year before.

Redundancies – where excess workers were laid off through retrenchment or early termination of contracts – have been rising since 2011, and hit a six-year high of 19,000 last year.

Yesterday’s preliminary data did not shed light on questions like how many of the laid-off workers were locals and how many were professionals, managers and executives.

The answers should come in the next few months as MOM crunches and releases more data.

Even so, some signs are clear.

The bright spots – like rising incomes and more locals in jobs – are starting to dim.

It is going to be a choppier ride in the job market.

tohyc@sph.com.sg

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‘Expect more labour pains this year’

This article was first published on Jan 27, 2017.
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Mr Ng Kim Chuan is a self-taught Chinese herbalist who grows and gives away medicinal herbs at no charge.

In his yellow rubber boots and a wide-brimmed hat, Mr Ng works on the NTU Community Herb Garden.

His routine includes harvesting and distributing herbs to visitors, and conducting educational tours of the garden.

He grew up a short distance away from the garden. After school, Mr Ng and his brothers would help their parents farm vegetables such as four-angled beans, okra (lady’s fingers), and chye sim.

Mr Ng always held an interest in traditional Chinese herbs, but only had the conviction to pursue this interest when his brother was diagnosed with lymphoma and faced expensive medical costs.

He wanted to help others facing the same circumstance, and saw a way through medicinal herbs.

Mr Ng began investing his money in a garden, despite objections from his family who were concerned about his health and financial well-being.

Even after undergoing knee surgery resulting from a fall, he remains determined and continues to work.

“When you do something that has meaning to you, you don’t have time to think about pain,” he shared in Mandarin. “You forget that it hurts.”

The stories he is told from visitors who feel they have experienced health benefits as a result of the herbs motivates him and gives meaning to his work.

He estimates that he has shared herbs with over 4,000 visitors from around the region.

In his work, he acknowledges that there are those who question his motives and the medicinal value of herbs, and some who take advantage that these herbs are given for free.

In facing these challenges, Mr Ng turns to his mother’s advice to be patient, have perseverance, and live with integrity.

“Take the herbs diligently, exercise daily and keep in good spirits”, he encourages a visitor when she arrived to collect her herbs while we were at the garden.

“You’ll get through this. Do your best to regain your health.”

The NTU Community Herb Garden welcomes committed volunteers to:

– Translate plant information/labels from Mandarin into English

– Oversee worker safety at the garden

– Coordinate volunteers

– Coordinate orders and requests

– Fundraise

You can also contribute to the upkeep of the garden by donating to the NTU Community Herb Garden Endowment.

NTU Community Herb Garden is located on a small slip road off Nanyang Technological University’s Jalan Bahar entrance in the western part of Singapore.

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