Let’s face it: in this social media world, exciting and viral news like a cat feeding a baby beer would often appear in your Facebook news feed, while important news like the GDP growth of Singapore this year wouldn’t get the same reach.
It’s understandable, since social media platforms would prioritise engaging and viral contents to keep users in their platform.
In order to ensure that you’d still know about important news instead just social news, below are the top five Singapore news that was reported yesterday which you should know, simplified for you in bite-sized format:
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From 2021, There’ll Be a New Mother Tongue Curriculum for Secondary Schools
Are you a banana—that is, someone who speaks and writes English well, but cannot speak a sentence of your mother tongue fluently?
If so, too bad: you should have graduated from secondary school and this doesn’t help you. But if your kids are bananas, then this would be handy: from 2021, a revised secondary mother tongue curriculum will be rolled out progressively, whereby there will be a greater infusion of cultural knowledge, and use contemporary materials, stories and IT-enabled learning. In other words, more fun lah.
For more info, tap here.
City Harvest Church Still One of the Richest Charities
Even after all the hoo-ha about how $50 million were anyhowly transferred here and there to fund Sun Ho’s singing career, the Church’s still going strong.
After writing off a $26.5 million debt owed by its former fund manager Chew Eng Han, whom they’ve sued to recover the money back in 2014, the Church is now still cash-rich, with $132 million in reserves in 2018.
However, the number of their members have dropped drastically: it used to have 33,000 members but it fell to 16,000 last year.
For more info, tap here.
115 People Investigated for Scams Involving More Than $235K in a Five-Day Operation
Nowadays, criminals do not wear hoodies with masks; they merely sit in front of a computer, mostly half-naked. But that didn’t stop the police from finding them.
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An enforcement operation between 19 August to 23 August identified a whopping 115 suspects who might be involved in 214 cases of scam (mainly e-commerce scams). The massive operation involved officers from the Commercial Affairs Department and seven police land divisions.
For more info, tap here.
NUS, NTU and SMU to Have Courses About Sexual Consent
Amazingly, there are going to be courses meant to teach students about sexual consent and respect on campus.
Whatever happens to social norms?
After a series of voyeurism cases this year (think: Monica Baey), the three main public universities in Singapore, namely NUS, NTU and SMU are going to have courses about sexual consent.
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Maybe they’ll also need to teach them how to do a proper cheer #justsaying
For more info, tap here.
New Initiative in Tampines Allow Low- to Middle-Income Families to Get Discounted Groceries Next Year
Are you a resident from Tampines GRC and belong to the low- or middle-income group? If so, you can get 50% off your groceries or $50 off your total bill, whichever is lower, next year.
However, please don’t anyhowly step into NTUC FairPrice and demand for the discount: for a start, you can only buy from a pop-up supermarket that opens every last Sunday of the month, and it includes only a total of 330 grocery items.
For more info, tap here.
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Do come back tomorrow to the Goody Feed app so you’ll always stay informed!
Would you be jailed for being half-naked in public? Well, the answer will shock you. Seriously. Watch this to the end and you'll understand:
