Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Proposal to lower age limit for juveniles
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Monday, November 08, 2010
新加坡人肥胖问题日趋严重
Singaporeans getting fatter
By Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid | Posted: 07 November 2010 1639 hrs
Channelnewsasia.om
SINGAPORE: The problem of obesity is getting worse in Singapore.
The latest National Health Survey shows the obesity rate has increased from 6.9 per cent in 2004 to 10.8 per cent this year.
This year's National Healthy Lifestyle campaign is thus adopting a more holistic approach to help Singaporeans fight the flab.
More than 1,000 people turned up at the launch of the campaign by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.
They tried out the new Singapore Workout that includes traditional dance moves.
The message is for Singaporeans to get healthy together and combat obesity.
Health Promotion Board (HPB) CEO Lam Pin Woon said: "Based on the National Health Survey, the obesity rate is definitely on the upturn.
"This is very alarming for us; we do not want to be in the same situation like the other western countries where the obesity rate is that one in three of the population is obese.
"For now, our obesity rate is (about) 10 per cent - that's already very alarming, and we have to do something about it.
"This year, we want to create a social movement (and) get everyone to see the value of having a healthy weight (and) enjoy life by being healthy".
The HPB attributes the rise in obesity here to a lack of physical activity and a more sedentary lifestyle.
The National Health Survey found that 54.1 per cent of Singaporeans do not exercise.
Mr Neville Dotival, who lost about 18kg over three months to weigh 88.8kg, said: "I feel a lot better, I feel more energetic, I can play more with my kids.
He added that he is now fit enough to join his sons in activities during school events such as Sports Day.
HPB's Youth Health Division director K Vijaya said: "There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that chronic disease including obesity has its roots in pre-natal and the early developmental stages of one's life.
"As a result of this evidence, we are shifting our obesity prevention efforts further upstream, to the pre-natal and early years of one's life.
"We will be empowering parents to nurture health lifestyles, among their children.
"We are coming up with guidelines, strategies to provide a conducive environment for this purpose such as baby friendly hospitals that support breast feeding.
"In addition, we will be coming up with guidelines to prevent indiscriminate advertising of food and beverages to children".
Other efforts include getting those from the food industry to develop lower calorie food products and meals, to cut some 25 billion kilocalories from Singapore's food supply by 2013.
HPB also intends to roll out a nationwide Body Mass Index survey every two to three years to better monitor obesity trends.
-CNA/wk
By Hetty Musfirah Abdul Khamid | Posted: 07 November 2010 1639 hrs
Channelnewsasia.om
SINGAPORE: The problem of obesity is getting worse in Singapore.
The latest National Health Survey shows the obesity rate has increased from 6.9 per cent in 2004 to 10.8 per cent this year.
This year's National Healthy Lifestyle campaign is thus adopting a more holistic approach to help Singaporeans fight the flab.
More than 1,000 people turned up at the launch of the campaign by Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.
They tried out the new Singapore Workout that includes traditional dance moves.
The message is for Singaporeans to get healthy together and combat obesity.
Health Promotion Board (HPB) CEO Lam Pin Woon said: "Based on the National Health Survey, the obesity rate is definitely on the upturn.
"This is very alarming for us; we do not want to be in the same situation like the other western countries where the obesity rate is that one in three of the population is obese.
"For now, our obesity rate is (about) 10 per cent - that's already very alarming, and we have to do something about it.
"This year, we want to create a social movement (and) get everyone to see the value of having a healthy weight (and) enjoy life by being healthy".
The HPB attributes the rise in obesity here to a lack of physical activity and a more sedentary lifestyle.
The National Health Survey found that 54.1 per cent of Singaporeans do not exercise.
Mr Neville Dotival, who lost about 18kg over three months to weigh 88.8kg, said: "I feel a lot better, I feel more energetic, I can play more with my kids.
He added that he is now fit enough to join his sons in activities during school events such as Sports Day.
HPB's Youth Health Division director K Vijaya said: "There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that chronic disease including obesity has its roots in pre-natal and the early developmental stages of one's life.
"As a result of this evidence, we are shifting our obesity prevention efforts further upstream, to the pre-natal and early years of one's life.
"We will be empowering parents to nurture health lifestyles, among their children.
"We are coming up with guidelines, strategies to provide a conducive environment for this purpose such as baby friendly hospitals that support breast feeding.
"In addition, we will be coming up with guidelines to prevent indiscriminate advertising of food and beverages to children".
Other efforts include getting those from the food industry to develop lower calorie food products and meals, to cut some 25 billion kilocalories from Singapore's food supply by 2013.
HPB also intends to roll out a nationwide Body Mass Index survey every two to three years to better monitor obesity trends.
-CNA/wk
Sunday, November 07, 2010
青少年涉暴力罪案不能等闲视之
2010年11月7日
早报
陈锦柏
据消息透露，白沙乐怡度假村命案相信涉及两个帮派的纠纷。
警方将不遗余力地将他们逮捕，依法处置。
新闻、通讯及艺术部长吕德耀说，这起案件经媒体广泛报道，引起国人关注，特别是为人父母者。他与妻子也对青少年的残暴行为感到震惊。
他也透露，如果怀疑子女涉及私会党，家长可以向刑事侦查局求助，让孩子参加跨部门的＂正途引导计划＂（Streetwise Program）协助他们走回正道。
另一方面，吕德耀透露我国的罪案情况已受到控制，今年首9个月的罪案总数，比去年同期下降了1.6％，但青少年涉及的罪案仍旧令人关注。虽然数字下降，但落网青少年仍占逮捕人数约22％之间，比例偏高。他们主要涉及轻微罪案，例如商店偷窃案。
早报
陈锦柏
据消息透露，白沙乐怡度假村命案相信涉及两个帮派的纠纷。
警方将不遗余力地将他们逮捕，依法处置。
新闻、通讯及艺术部长吕德耀说，这起案件经媒体广泛报道，引起国人关注，特别是为人父母者。他与妻子也对青少年的残暴行为感到震惊。
他也透露，如果怀疑子女涉及私会党，家长可以向刑事侦查局求助，让孩子参加跨部门的＂正途引导计划＂（Streetwise Program）协助他们走回正道。
另一方面，吕德耀透露我国的罪案情况已受到控制，今年首9个月的罪案总数，比去年同期下降了1.6％，但青少年涉及的罪案仍旧令人关注。虽然数字下降，但落网青少年仍占逮捕人数约22％之间，比例偏高。他们主要涉及轻微罪案，例如商店偷窃案。
Saturday, November 06, 2010
环保意识在青少年身上札根
Green message taking root among
亚洲新闻台 Channelnewsasia
By Hoe Yeen Nie | Posted: 06 November 2010 1727 hrs
SINGAPORE: It seems the green message is taking root among Singapore's youths.
In a recent survey by the National Environment Agency (NEA), four in five believed that they can make a difference.
The growing involvement of youths was highlighted by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the launch of the Clean and Green Singapore 2011 campaign.
Everyone, he said, has a part to play.
"Taking care of the environment is something which concerns all of us. We don't all have to take on global causes, but each of us can contribute locally by keeping Singapore our island clean and green," said Prime Minister Lee.
Many say it is important to get kids started on the green movement from young.
At Punggol Primary School, students have turned old bottles into flower pots, showing that you can easily reduce, reuse and recycle so long as you put some creativity into it.
At Jurong Primary School, students have created bottle gardens, the idea coming from teacher, Mrs Wendy Looi. On Saturday, she received an award for sharing her love for recycling and gardening with her students.
Mrs Looi said: "We've got children who love insects, and they enjoy catching caterpillars. We also have those who are so nervous at the sight of an earthworm they'll scream. So, as teachers, we'll tell them, these are the harmless ones, those are the garden helpers. In fact we take them to gardens so they can see the beautiful flowers, and we remind them of all the beautiful creatures that are the garden helpers that help in the growth of the plants."
Mrs Looi is one of six Community In Bloom Ambassadors recognised by NParks this year for going the extra mile to spread the gardening bug.
Another award winner is 51-year-old Anjalai Ammal, a senior horticulturist with Tampines Town Council, who helped create 36 community gardens in the housing estate.
And to get more people to explore Singapore's biodiversity, NParks has created four new trail guides. You can just print them off the website, and you're good to go on your exploration.
NParks' director of Streetscape, Simon Longman, said: "They will come to appreciate how sustainable it is, and how we help to sustain the biodiversity."
Guides are available for Botanic Gardens, Changi, Pulau Ubin and Fort Canning.
- CNA/ir
亚洲新闻台 Channelnewsasia
By Hoe Yeen Nie | Posted: 06 November 2010 1727 hrs
SINGAPORE: It seems the green message is taking root among Singapore's youths.
In a recent survey by the National Environment Agency (NEA), four in five believed that they can make a difference.
The growing involvement of youths was highlighted by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the launch of the Clean and Green Singapore 2011 campaign.
Everyone, he said, has a part to play.
"Taking care of the environment is something which concerns all of us. We don't all have to take on global causes, but each of us can contribute locally by keeping Singapore our island clean and green," said Prime Minister Lee.
Many say it is important to get kids started on the green movement from young.
At Punggol Primary School, students have turned old bottles into flower pots, showing that you can easily reduce, reuse and recycle so long as you put some creativity into it.
At Jurong Primary School, students have created bottle gardens, the idea coming from teacher, Mrs Wendy Looi. On Saturday, she received an award for sharing her love for recycling and gardening with her students.
Mrs Looi said: "We've got children who love insects, and they enjoy catching caterpillars. We also have those who are so nervous at the sight of an earthworm they'll scream. So, as teachers, we'll tell them, these are the harmless ones, those are the garden helpers. In fact we take them to gardens so they can see the beautiful flowers, and we remind them of all the beautiful creatures that are the garden helpers that help in the growth of the plants."
Mrs Looi is one of six Community In Bloom Ambassadors recognised by NParks this year for going the extra mile to spread the gardening bug.
Another award winner is 51-year-old Anjalai Ammal, a senior horticulturist with Tampines Town Council, who helped create 36 community gardens in the housing estate.
And to get more people to explore Singapore's biodiversity, NParks has created four new trail guides. You can just print them off the website, and you're good to go on your exploration.
NParks' director of Streetscape, Simon Longman, said: "They will come to appreciate how sustainable it is, and how we help to sustain the biodiversity."
Guides are available for Botanic Gardens, Changi, Pulau Ubin and Fort Canning.
- CNA/ir
不受限制媒体的害处
海峡时报（The Straits Times）
2010年11月6日
Minister for Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam said Singapore cannot withstand, nor it is prepared to accept, the harmful consequences of having its media like American press. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
NEW YORK - WITH its small population and short history, Singapore cannot withstand - nor is it prepared to accept - the possible harmful consequences of having its media become like the American press, said Minister for Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam.
The US media has a wider and freer role than the press in most other countries. But American society, being large, rich and stable, is strong enough to endure the potential damage of having a media that does not always live up to its ideals of being judicious, fair and independent, he said.
Mr Shanmugam drew these comparisons in a speech outlining Singapore's perspective on the role of the media at Columbia University on Thursday.
The US, he told the audience at a university forum on A Free Press for a Global Society, 'has in-built stability'.
'There can be fringe lunatic behaviour, but mainstream Americans are sensible and rational, and extremist sentiment will not threaten the very fabric of society,' he noted.
In many developing societies, however, the glue holding society together is not as strong and 'these societies can easily rupture along tribal, ethnic and religious lines,' he said. n Singapore's case, racial and religious fault lines can be easily exploited.
2010年11月6日
Minister for Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam said Singapore cannot withstand, nor it is prepared to accept, the harmful consequences of having its media like American press. -- ST PHOTO: LIM SIN THAI
NEW YORK - WITH its small population and short history, Singapore cannot withstand - nor is it prepared to accept - the possible harmful consequences of having its media become like the American press, said Minister for Home Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam.
The US media has a wider and freer role than the press in most other countries. But American society, being large, rich and stable, is strong enough to endure the potential damage of having a media that does not always live up to its ideals of being judicious, fair and independent, he said.
Mr Shanmugam drew these comparisons in a speech outlining Singapore's perspective on the role of the media at Columbia University on Thursday.
The US, he told the audience at a university forum on A Free Press for a Global Society, 'has in-built stability'.
'There can be fringe lunatic behaviour, but mainstream Americans are sensible and rational, and extremist sentiment will not threaten the very fabric of society,' he noted.
In many developing societies, however, the glue holding society together is not as strong and 'these societies can easily rupture along tribal, ethnic and religious lines,' he said. n Singapore's case, racial and religious fault lines can be easily exploited.
新加坡成为充满活力的国际都会
吴作栋资政与南大学生的对话
http://www.reach.gov.sg/YourSay/DiscussionForum/tabid/101/mode/3/Default.aspx?ssFormAction=%5B%5BssBlogThread_VIEW%5D%5D&tid=%5B%5B735%5D%5D
REACH
[REACH (reaching everyone for active citizenry@ home) was launched in October 2006 when the Feedback Unit (政府回馈单位) was restructured to move beyond gathering public feedback, to become the lead agency for engaging and connecting with citizens. REACH was also appointed as the Singapore Government’s e-engagement platform in January 2009.]
Original Posting by REACH Administrator:
At a recent National Technological University Forum, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong called on young Singaporeans to do their part to ensure that Singapore remains a dynamic global city. SM Goh highlighted that while the older generation had fought for independence, expanded Singapore’s economy and built a culturally vibrant and compassionate society, it is now up to the next generation to ‘lift Singapore to new heights’. To do so, younger Singaporeans must stay engaged in national affairs and voice their solutions to Singapore’s problems. They should create a Singapore that is not just an integrated resort with lots of buzz, but also a home where people stay to live their dreams and defend with their lives. He also urged young Singaporeans not to grow complacent, but to actively challenge conventional wisdom so as to continue to make Singapore better.
How can we continue to make Singapore a buzzing global city and home? Share your thoughts with us.
http://www.reach.gov.sg/YourSay/DiscussionForum/tabid/101/mode/3/Default.aspx?ssFormAction=%5B%5BssBlogThread_VIEW%5D%5D&tid=%5B%5B735%5D%5D
REACH
[REACH (reaching everyone for active citizenry@ home) was launched in October 2006 when the Feedback Unit (政府回馈单位) was restructured to move beyond gathering public feedback, to become the lead agency for engaging and connecting with citizens. REACH was also appointed as the Singapore Government’s e-engagement platform in January 2009.]
Original Posting by REACH Administrator:
At a recent National Technological University Forum, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong called on young Singaporeans to do their part to ensure that Singapore remains a dynamic global city. SM Goh highlighted that while the older generation had fought for independence, expanded Singapore’s economy and built a culturally vibrant and compassionate society, it is now up to the next generation to ‘lift Singapore to new heights’. To do so, younger Singaporeans must stay engaged in national affairs and voice their solutions to Singapore’s problems. They should create a Singapore that is not just an integrated resort with lots of buzz, but also a home where people stay to live their dreams and defend with their lives. He also urged young Singaporeans not to grow complacent, but to actively challenge conventional wisdom so as to continue to make Singapore better.
How can we continue to make Singapore a buzzing global city and home? Share your thoughts with us.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
黄永宏：调查显示国人有归属感
2010年11月3日
早报
大部分国人对新加坡有归属感，也愿意在国家面临威胁时挺身捍卫。
调查对象有：
（1）全职国民服役人员
（2）战备服役人员
（3）公众
结果：都持续显示超过90％的受访者认为新加坡是他们的家园。
上周五，南洋理工大学有学生表示，青少年的新加坡精神日趋淡薄，对身在自己的国家越来越感到不自在。他与很多一同服役的朋友都觉得，随着政策改变和越来越多外来人才涌入，他们已不知道自己在保卫什么。这个大学生的看法今日在网上引起热烈讨论。
教育部长表示：今年和前年对学生展开的两项国民教育调查都显示正面的情绪。无论是小学、中学、初级学院或高级中学，学生都对身为新加坡人感到骄傲。学生公开表明他们爱新加坡，喜欢新加坡的任人唯贤（meritocracy）、种族与宗教和谐和只要努力就能成功等特质。今年的调查访问了7万4000名小四和小六、中二、中四及高二学生，取得的结果或较前年进步、或维持相同水平。
部长致辞时也指出，国民教育实施者应该继续努力，以共同的信念和价值观让国人团结和扎根来建立起一个国家。我们不能在批评或负面情绪出现时气馁，或开始持怀疑态度。事实上，有疑问是发现和内部化（internalization）过程的一部分。
早报
大部分国人对新加坡有归属感，也愿意在国家面临威胁时挺身捍卫。
调查对象有：
（1）全职国民服役人员
（2）战备服役人员
（3）公众
结果：都持续显示超过90％的受访者认为新加坡是他们的家园。
上周五，南洋理工大学有学生表示，青少年的新加坡精神日趋淡薄，对身在自己的国家越来越感到不自在。他与很多一同服役的朋友都觉得，随着政策改变和越来越多外来人才涌入，他们已不知道自己在保卫什么。这个大学生的看法今日在网上引起热烈讨论。
教育部长表示：今年和前年对学生展开的两项国民教育调查都显示正面的情绪。无论是小学、中学、初级学院或高级中学，学生都对身为新加坡人感到骄傲。学生公开表明他们爱新加坡，喜欢新加坡的任人唯贤（meritocracy）、种族与宗教和谐和只要努力就能成功等特质。今年的调查访问了7万4000名小四和小六、中二、中四及高二学生，取得的结果或较前年进步、或维持相同水平。
部长致辞时也指出，国民教育实施者应该继续努力，以共同的信念和价值观让国人团结和扎根来建立起一个国家。我们不能在批评或负面情绪出现时气馁，或开始持怀疑态度。事实上，有疑问是发现和内部化（internalization）过程的一部分。
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