Monday, June 6, 2011

Total Defence Day

Schools are required to commemorate 4 core NE events which have been identified as defining moments in Singapores history.

The aim is to entrench these events and the images they envoke in the consciousness in each successive generation.

Schools commemorate Feburaury 15th as Total Defense Day in Singapore to remind them of the day that the country fell to the Japnese in 1942.

For more information on this topic or the other 3 NE events please follow the link http://www.en.edu.sg/core_events

Thursday, June 2, 2011

LinkedIn opens Asia headquarters in Singapore

Career Networking website is to open in Singapore, as part of a plan to tap the regions large pool of professionals.

The companys users in Asia grew 130% in the year ending in March bringing total members of the region to 18 million out of more than 100 million world wide.

Linkedin was started in 2003 and was first based in Mountain View, California.

For more information on Linkedin check out the following link http://www.longislandpress.com

Air care market in Singapore sees a stronger current value growth of 3% in 2010 to reach $21 million

With the recovery of the economy, aircare saw a stronger current growth rate.

Together with increasing affluence, consumers demanded luxury products such as air freshners. Gel air freshners continued to enjoyed the fasest growth rate in 2010 compared to 2009. The air freshners continue to enjoy the fasest growth rate of 5% in 2010.

For more information on these growth rates please check out the following link http://www.transworldnews



The most common and iconic Thai classical music that symbolizes the dancing of the Thailand's legendary dragons, a midsized orchestra including two xylophones , an oboe , barrel drums and two circular sets of tuned horizontal gong-chimes. Piphat can be performed in either a loud outdoor style using hard mallets or in an indoor style using padded hammers. There are several types of piphat ensembles ranging in size and orchestration, each kind typically being associated with specific ceremonial purposes. The highly decorated piphat ensemble that features the ornately carved and painted semicircular vertical gong-chime is traditionally associated with the funeral and cremation ceremonies of the Mon ethnic group. Different versions of the piphat ensemble are employed to accompany specific forms of traditional Thai drama such as the large shadow puppet theater and the khon dance drama.

Thai Tats


Thailand has ordered a crackdown on foreign tourists having religious images tattooed on their bodies while visiting the kingdom, official media said on Wednesday.
Tattoos with images such as of the Buddha may offend Thai people, Culture Minister Nipit Intarasombat was quoted as telling reporters.
He said his ministry had asked regional governors, particularly in tourist hotspots, to inspect tattoo studios and ask them not to use religious patterns, according to the state-run National News Bureau.
It said he would push for a law banning people from etching sacred images onto their skin.