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Posts tagged with "elderly"
Remembering those who helped build our nation
Dec. 23 | In this holiday season of Christmas, we remember the less fortunate, particularly the elderly. Film by Martyn See. Rated NC16 by the Board of Film Censors. “Nation Builders”
Foreign nurses cannot replace local care for our elderly
Dec. 12 | Breaking News The Reform Party calls for the abolition of death penalty for drug trafficking. Read their press release here. Lawrence Lin Where do the elders in Singapore go? Stay with their children and take care of the kids if possible? Move to a...
Barber in the alley
Nov. 28 | Mr Lee Yoon Tong used to operate his own salon in a shophouse in Tanjong Pagar. In 2002, he was evicted after a property firm bought over the land his salon used to sit on. He was compensated with a token S$1,000 as moving expenses. He then wrote to...
Is the Public Assistance scheme adequate for elderly folks?
Aug. 30 | Breaking News: The Democratic Party of Japan has won a landslide victory in the country’s general elections, ousting the Liberal Democrats which had ruled the country for most of the last 54 years. (CBC News) Report by AFP, earlier this year,...
No cheap fares for the elderly, says Gerard Ee
Aug. 12 | Gerard Ee’s letter to the Straits Times, 12 August. (Click to enlarge) Leong Sze Hian In December last year, chairman of the Public Transport Council, Mr Gerard Ee rejected polytechnic students’ request for fairer transport fares. Mr Ee said...
The unknown side of Singapore
Aug. 2 | Rockerchick takes her camera round S’pore and “found many impoverished people.”
Labour Day – remembering the most vulnerable
May. 1 | Announcement: The Online Citizen will bring you “live” updates from Suntec City tomorrow of the AWARE Extraordinary General Meeting. “Live” updates will begin from 12 noon. Stay tuned to TOC! As Labour Day draws to a close, we end our week’s...
The man at Waterloo Street
Apr. 30 | Andrew Loh There he sits – in the warm afternoon. All alone by himself, in the courtyard at Waterloo Street. He is surrounded by several plastic bags of belongings, a cardboard which he sits on and one more which he uses to shield himself from the...
“I am good at what I do”
Apr. 29 | Koh Yi Na / With contribution from Teng Jingwei Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. On these three days, Mr Loh Hak Seet, 75, sits at the junction of Orchard Road and Bideford Road from morning to night, playing his harmonica as shoppers hurry across...
Sleepless in Singapore
Apr. 29 | The country is ill-equipped to cope with a possible rise in homelessness In February this year, the grim reality of the economic downturn in the United States was dramatically brought home to Americans by the Oprah Winfrey Show when it highlighted a “tent-city”...
“一天过一天，平平安安就好.”
Apr. 28 | Deborah Choo The title of this essay, in English, means: “Take each day as it comes, as long as everyone is safe.” They are the words of a fortune teller in Chinatown. I call him Uncle Fortune. A man in his seventies, Uncle Fortune sets up his...
A key maker and his dying trade
Apr. 27 | TOC’s Special Focus Week: As Labour Day approaches on May 1st, TOC honours our elderly and senior citizens and brings you stories of them who make a living on the streets of Singapore. Deborah Choo A bunch of keys jingle amisdt the lazy afternoon...
Gentle under the warmth of the sun
Apr. 26 | TOC’s Special Focus Week: As Labour Day approaches on May 1st, TOC honours our elderly and senior citizens and brings you stories of them who make a living on the streets of Singapore. Andrew Loh / Deborah Choo South Bridge Road. The old man parks...
Microfinance: is it the answer?
Apr. 21 | Low Hansiong / New York, United States In the vein of my last article on public service, I would like to expand on one method of actually bringing about poverty reduction. Microcredit has been around for the past 10 to 15 years. it was first formally...
“They gave me an umbrella and a teddy bear.”
Apr. 9 | The following is an update to the earlier story of Mr Wong Tai Phong titled, “A victim of bureaucratic red tape and inflexible policies.” Andrew Loh “Luckily you didn’t come yesterday,” Mr Wong says to me as I enter his house. “Why?” I ask....
A victim of bureaucratic red tape and inflexible policies
Apr. 8 | Andrew Loh / Deborah Choo Mr Wong Tai Phong was a secret society member in his younger days. “I was one of the Bugis Street terrors”, he tells us in his home. I can see why. He is burly, and speaks in a rather brusque manner. As a gang member,...
“In everything you do, you must be sincere.”
Apr. 7 | Note: This article on cobbler Uncle Kwok is a prelude to the articles we will be featuring as part of our tentatively titled, “Wisdom From The Streets”, series in a week or two on TOC. Deborah Choo There he is, smoking, pleasurably and placidly....
JB nursing homes – MOH clarifies
Mar. 24 | For those who missed it, this is the full statement from the Ministry of Health on Mr Khaw Boon Wan’s remarks about nursing homes in Johor Baru: From feedback received and online discussion, it is apparent that there is much misunderstanding on Minister...
Burial space in Melbourne, Australia
Mar. 23 | With the issue of sending elderly parents to nursing homes across the Causeway still fresh in our minds, the thought of having loved ones buried in a faraway foreign land is equally heart-rending and sorrowful… Do we face such acute burial space constraints...
Making ends meet
Feb. 27 | Andrew Loh Along Serangoon Road, her fragile frame bends as she reaches into the trash bin. In Little India, the tiny woman with her hunched back draws nothing more than a few nonchalant passing stares. She had earlier emerged from a crowd of pedestrians,...
Don’t chuck elderly away to old folks home
Nov. 21 | *Please take part in the poll below (poll section on TOC) on whether you would support the call made by Mr Goh Meng Seng, for Mr Tan Kin Lian to contest in the elections. Serville Zervant I was watching a Tamil documentary about an elderly Indian man...
Seeing Stars: Uniquely Singapore – Progress
Aug. 11 | Leong Sze Hian / Senior Writer In this special series of Uniquely Singapore, Leong Sze Hian takes a look at the 5 stars of our flag and how it relates to certain issues. This first article focuses on “Progress”. I refer to the Ministry of Manpower’s...
Celebrating the S’pore spirit?
Aug. 10 | At the crack of dawn at 5.30am when I go to work, one get to see many of the elderly behaving like the proverbial early bird getting the worm – scavenging at dump sites and rubbish bins for cartons, drink cans and anything that can be sold for cash....
Nation Builders – revisited
Jul. 28 | As Singapore’s 43rd National Day approaches, we remember those who are less fortunate, especially the elderly. In this video, film-maker Martyn See captures some of the things which our elderly folks do, either to make a living or to ‘pass time’. Have...
