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SM Goh says schools must produce students for post-crisis world
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Senior Minister, said schools need to produce students who are ready to cope with a new post-crisis world. But as schools prepare students to seek opportunities overseas, Mr Goh said there is also the challenge to get them to think about Singapore when they are working abroad and contribute to their country of birth. Addressing the 70th anniversary gathering of Chung Cheng High School on Saturday evening, Mr Goh said countries which better educate their citizens today will out-perform others tomorrow. And so schools should prepare students to compete against their peers in Shanghai, Stockholm and San Francisco, and prepare them for economic opportunities in China and India. Mr Goh said: "We need to produce students who are world-ready, students who are informed about local and global affairs, students who are able to navigate in an emerging Asia and yet understand Western thought and management systems, and students who are capable of leading overseas businesses whether in the West or Asia." He said Singapore's students need to be imbued with entrepreneurial spirit to push boundaries, adapt to change and seize new opportunities and at the same time be reminded of their ties to Singapore. Mr Goh continued: "What we must try to achieve is to retain their emotional bonds to Singapore so that they think of Singapore as the home which nurtured them and want to contribute in some ways to the country of their birth. This is best done in schools while they are young." And while they may work overseas for prolonged periods, Mr Goh said the young must appreciate that their advancement is made possible by the society they grew up in and the investments of their parents, their teachers, their community and their government. Hence, they should not take the programmes to expose them both in and outside Singapore for granted. But Mr Goh also said by preparing students to be entrepreneurial, Singapore is also giving them wings. He said more than one fifth of top A-level students from some 10 years ago are not working in Singapore now. Still, Mr Goh said Singapore will not pull back on giving the young the best education and instead applaud those who wish to work and live overseas. Some 180,000 Singaporeans are currently based overseas
Iran arrests British embassy staff over riots
TEHRAN - Iran has arrested eight local British embassy staff, media reports said Sunday, a move that will further exacerbate strained ties with the West over the post-election turmoil in the Islamic republic. It is the latest retaliatory action against Britain, which Iran has accused of stoking the unrest that swept the country after the disputed election that returned hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. "Eight members of the local staff at the British embassy who had a considerable role in the recent riots have been arrested," the Fars news agency said without quoting a source. Last week, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki warned that Iran may downgrade ties with Britain, after the two governments expelled diplomats in a tit-for-tat move. Iran has also expelled the BBC correspondent in Tehran and arrested a British-Greek journalist, as well as a number of other British passport-holders it says were involved in rioting. The latest backlash against the West came as opposition leaders in Iran kept up their defiance of the regime, rejecting a panel set up to hold a partial recount of ballots cast in the June 12 vote. Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmadinejad's strongest rival, is still insisting on a new vote while another defeated candidate, Mehdi Karroubi, has demanded an independent panel to probe irregularities. Their defiance flies in the face of the nation's top political arbitration body the Expediency Council, which has urged all candidates to cooperate with the panel set up by the electoral watchdog the Guardians Council. The streets of Tehran appeared quiet on Sunday, with the authorities warning they would suppress any further protests over the vote that triggered the worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Facing its biggest threat in 30 years, the Islamic regime has sought to quell the disquiet over the election results by ordering a partial recount. The Guardians Council, an unelected body of 12 jurists and clerics, said Friday it would create a special committee of political figures and candidate representatives to recount 10 percent of the ballots and draw up a report on the vote. But Karroubi, a reformist former parliament speaker who came a distant fourth, said in a letter to the Guardians Council that a partial recount was "not enough" and called for an independent panel to probe "all aspects of the election." Mousavi rejected the panel outright on Saturday, while the other defeated candidate, Mohsen Rezai, has agreed to be part of the panel if Mousavi and Karroubi also agree to nominate representatives to the body. But Mousavi, who has spearheaded the massive public opposition to the vote, has demanded a rerun, refusing to be cowed by a persistent crackdown by the authorities against his supporters and even an aide turning against him. "Limiting the probe into complaints about electoral irregularities to recounting 10 percent of the ballot boxes cannot attract people's trust and convince public opinion about the results," he said on his campaign website. "I insist again on cancelling the election (results) as the most suitable way out of the problem," he said. Mousavi, who was prime minister in the post-revolution years, won just 34 percent of the vote against 63 percent for Ahmadinejad, a gap of 11 million votes, according to official results. Despite ordering a partial recount, the Guardians Council said no "major irregularities" have so far been found and the election was the "cleanest we have had." At least 17 people have been killed in clashes with security forces, according to state media. However, foreign media are banned from the streets under new restrictions imposed in the wake of the election. The authorities have also rounded up scores of reformist leaders, journalists and political activists, many of them Mousavi supporters, while a party office has been raided and his newspaper closed down. While Britain has been at the forefront of Iran's accusations of Western meddling, Ahmadinejad on Saturday unleashed a new tirade against US President Barack Obama, saying: "He who spoke of reforms and changes, why did he interfere and comment in a way that disregards convention and courtesy?" On Friday, Obama said Iran's "outrageous" crackdown on demonstrators would hit his hopes for direct talks with the Islamic republic after three decades of severed ties. "There is no doubt that any direct dialogue or diplomacy with Iran is going to be affected by the events of the last several weeks," Obama said. However, Obama said talks between Iran and world powers over its nuclear drive are likely to continue. The United States and other Western countries suspect Iran of secretly trying to build an atomic weapon, charges repeatedly denied by Tehran. On Friday, foreign ministers of the Group of Eight leading powers said they "deplore" the post-election violence in Iran, the regional Shiite powerhouse and OPEC's second largest oil exporter
Asian Youth Games torch relay kicks off
Singapore's Minister for Manpower Gan Kim Yong runs with the torch during the torch relay at the Asian Youth Games
Asian Youth Games torch relay kicks off
SINGAPORE: The Asian Youth Games (AYG) torch relay kicked off Sunday morning with the Community and Corporate Leg. Held over two days, day one of the relay saw the torch travel through three different routes covering five districts across Singapore. The flame lighting ceremony was held early Sunday at the Kallang Waterfront. Deputy Prime Minister and President of the Singapore National Olympic Council Teo Chee Hean was at the event. The flame then fanned out across the island in buses to arrive at the start of the three routes, named after the Olympic values of Friendship, Excellence and Respect. At Yio Chu Kang stadium, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had the honour of being the first torch bearer to start the relay. Over at the Republic Polytechnic in the north of Singapore, other Ministers and VIPs also took part in the historic run. Said Zainudin Nordin, torch bearer and Mayor of the North District: "We want to celebrate us organising the AYG, at the same to understand that sports is a really wonderful platform for us to get to know each other and for us to bond with the people together." Shoppers and tourists caught a sight of the torch as it was carried along Orchard Road. A total of 70 torchbearers were involved in day one of the relay. The final torch bearer for the day was Sports Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, who ran from Marina Square to the Games Village at Swissotel the Stamford. The torch relay will resume on Monday for the Schools leg, with the flame travelling to 45 schools around Singapore, where over a hundred runners will have the honour of carrying the torch. Day two of the relay will end at the Indoor Stadium where three athletes will run in with the torch and light the cauldron - part of the Games Opening ceremony celebrations.
The sudden death of Micheal Jackson's news are on many minds.Wondering this and that of the possible reasons of his death.
One of the Phillipines prison's priosoners sang and dance Micheal Jackson's songs,to make them remeber this day of the king of pop's death.After the news of his death wa annouced,CDs,Micheal Jackson related items are flying off the shelves.The customers are buying lots of his things,keeping as a memento,to let them rememember this person,for generations to come.(They says)
Singapore confirmed another 89 cases of H1N1,so the total adds up to 454 cases.Other countries,Australia reports 5 cases, Cambodia 1 case,Thailand 2 case ( died of H1N1.)
H1N1 victinms may not have the symtoms,like other viruses.So the victims does not realise that they have the virus in them until they go for a check-up or that their families showed symtoms of it.Because of that,many still go to crowded places,where the virus will spread rapidly around the area,causing innocent people to suffer to.So many countries' government wants us to take care,be hygenic,so that we will not be the accomplices of H1N1,being the black sheep in the group.
Today,50 new cases of H1N1 has been confirmed and the total stands at 365 cases altogether.One of the countries says that the percentage of dying of H1n1 is 1 %,compared to the 60% of H5N1 which is much lesser than it,alothough so,precautionary measures have been taken because of the number of increasing cases around the world everyday.
Micheal Jackson,the famous singer,the welll kown one died today because of Heart Attack.(50 years old)In Singapore,his fans mourn for him,many said that they were devastated when they heard the news on Television--his death.Singapore fans aren't the only one mourning for him,even asisan's mourn for hem,"King Of Pop"
He was considered a music icon alll around the world.No matter of age,young or old.They loved his music and his highest number of people buying his songs was up to 7.5 billion!!Now,they are investigating the reason of his death,they think of a posssibility of dying because of the medicine that his family doctor gave him.