Interesting Green: Ez-link Giro top-up - Part 2 (Fees a hassle.
or visit www.todayonline.com/voices http://imcms2.mediacorp.sg/CMSFileserver/documents/006/pdf/20090903/0309VOC038.pdf. Letter from John Tan Ez-link fees a hassle. I do not understand why there is so much hassle when it. Picture is obtained from http://iguide.travel/illustrations/Singapore-7.png. The machines would be used less often; the wear and tear would be reduced.. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends.
Interesting Green: My sweet Valentine
Source Website: http://www.todayonline.com/Columns/Thefairertext/EDC110212-0000179/My-sweet-Valentine By Georgina Chang.. It will cost far less than that Audi. And on Valentines Day, Ive got something special to��.
Interesting Green: Retire early, live longer
Website: http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC100803-0000036/Retire-early,-live-longer. Letter from Tan Kok Tim, 05:55 AM Aug 03, 2010. PHOTO: If we. This study concludes that for every year a person works beyond the age of 55, he lives an average of two years less. In other. There are hidden costs to not having a retirement age that may not be obvious until it is too late.. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. ��.
Hoping to harness the wind and generate power
Singapores wind speed is less than 5m per second - the minimum speed for wind turbines to operate.. NTUs tie-up yesterday with Rolls Royce, Vestas, DNV and Keppel Offshore and Marine would look into developing more cost-effective offshore wind and marine power generation systems, saving land which could be used for growing food crops as well as for housing and. http://snapshotscience.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/joby_energy_ub_system.jpg
Rising to the challenge
Former national swimmer Mark Chay (left) and national sailor Cecilia Low have been appointed Singapores Chef de Mission and Youth Ambassador to the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing from Aug 16 to 28. Photo: Singapore. Together with former team.
Under The Angsana Tree: Pink Dots @ Hong Lim Park 2014
Singapore Pink Dot Rally Breaks Record. The Pink Dot Rally this Saturday attracted a record number of 26000 people to attend this years event held at the Speakers Corner. This number was 5000 more than last years Pink��.
First green SEA Games here in 2015?
In less than two years time, Singapore will host the Southeast Asian Games in June 2015. It will be the first time that it has hosted the biennial regional event since 1993, although we did play host to the first Asian Youth Games in 2009 and the.
Interesting Green: Dont grin and bear it
For instance, to replace several missing teeth, Agnes set of partial dentures cost only about S$500. No surgery is involved. The Bad: According to Dr Choy of Toof Doctor, dentures are becoming less popular nowadays as��.
wildsingapore news: Orchard Road floods: Not acceptable
Dr Michael Butts, head of Innovation, Dansk Hydraulisk Institut, said the most important consideration for Singapore is the rising sea level. We are in a low-lying country and an island and if the sea level rises a metre or so,��.
Interesting Green: Organic food not any healthier
More than one third of conventional produce had detectable pesticide residues, compared with 7 per cent of organic produce samples. Organic pork and chicken were 33 per cent less likely to carry bacteria resistant to three or��.
Hybrid grass pitch to be replaced with artifical grass pitch.
Minster for Culture, Community and Youth, Lawrence Wong came out in August to defend the hybrid grass pitch saying that the grass just needs time to grow and will be ready for the SEA Games next year but it is unknown. Local news outlet, Today reports that the cost of the resurfacing will be borne by SHPL.. For promoters of sports events who insist on natural grass, it is said that the grass can be temporarily installed over the artificial pitch in less than 72 hours.
Interesting Green: Penalise the fat of the land
In the United States, obesity has cost the country billions in medical bills annually, with an obese person incurring US$1,500 ($1,930) - 41 per cent more than the average non-obese person - a year. This problem permeates all. In recent years, I have observed Singaporeans becoming increasingly health conscious, with greater rates of participations in sports and wellness programmes and a move towards a diet with more vegetables, less oil. Even our national��.
China indicts former mayor of Nanjing on corruption charges
China indicts former mayor of Nanjing on corruption charges. Ji Jianye, former mayor of Nanjing, China, shakes hand with the IOC President Jacques Rogge during the Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010 closing ceremony on Aug 26, 2010. TODAY file .
Interesting Green: Test-tube burger, anyone?
But it has made a lot of vegetarians happy and is 1,000 times less controversial than using genetically modified organisms and stem cell science in food technology. PHOTO: Approximate the taste of meat but are, in fact,��.
Malaysian Sports - Todays back pages!: Get fit, Malaysia
In Kuala Lumpur, getting fit often means joining a gym and paying the rather hefty membership fee or parting with even more money to buy fancy sports equipment. I was concerned that there is a kind of exclusivity when it��.
2015 SEA Games to cost Singapore less than 2010 YOG
SINGAPORE ��� The 2015 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games will cost an estimated S$324.5 million, and will be the largest multi-sports event that Singapore has hosted to date. Come June 5 to 16, Singapore will host more than 7,000 athletes and officials from.
Interesting Green: What retirement living should be
Source Website: http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC120218-0000065/What-retirement-living-should-be. Letter from Julia Ng, 04:46 AM Feb 18, 2012. PHOTO: The Village at NorthRidge an Extraordinary Option in Senior��.
Interesting Green: Festive friction
With the steep hike in car prices and home down payments, anyone whos succeeded in acquiring either one is automatically guaranteed an elevated status amongst his cousins. Growing up, I observed the relentless comparisons of who had more material acquisitions while the less well-off were discussed about in tones of smug (excessive pride) schadenfreude (german word for glee). This festive.. Location / Travel. Google Map �� Singapore Street Directory��.
Going for gold
Yesterday at the Bank of Singapore Lounge at the newly-opened National Stadium, a joint flag presentation ceremony was held for the Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympics (YOG) contingents, attended by more than 80 national athletes, alongside. Chef.
Interesting Green: Still trying, after 100 interviews
Even as he works on his own shortcomings, graduate Edmund Lim thinks employers should be less picky and not make job-hunters jump through so many hoopsJob interviews, in the words of Edmund Lim Chuan Yang (picture), are akin to Miss Universe. Achieving the latter is still a work-in-progress for the 32-year-old life sciences graduate, who has failed to score a full-time job lasting more than six months despite attending 100 job interviews in the last two years.