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Kopi with the MP

Kopi with the MP is coming up on 13th June 2008! Our invited MP is Mr Teo Ser Luck (Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports & Ministry of Transport). The launch of the Hwa Chong JRA website will also occur on that day!

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New Sections Added

April 28, 2008 (Monday)

The "About Us" section is undergoing maintenance. We are currently adding our profiles, information about REACH, as well as the background of the JRA programme.

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Establishment of the Website

April 25, 2008 (Friday)

Today marks the birth of the Hwa Chong JRA Website! Most of the links are not up yet, but do watch this space. New features, including a weblog and a forum, would be coming your way soon. So do watch out!

In the News

Spotlight: Social Behaviour in Public Housing Estates

From the top floor of a HDB flat, a resident's wet laundry drips. Directly below it, another set of laundry gets more soaked due to this dripping. This sparks off a chain reaction and the residents of that HDB flat are unhappy.

Bad social behaviour in the HDB heartland is seen to have risen and constitutes bad habis such as letting one's wet laundry drip or even sweeping one's trash out the door into the corridors.

The Workgroup on Promoting Beter Social Behaviour in Public Estates has been set up due to this lack of social consciousness, to "look at all types of reasons that may cause conflict between neighbours and see how to reduce it” (Senior Minister of State for National Development and Education Grace Fu).

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The Olympics

Singapore may have won the bid to host the 2010 Youth Olympic games, but the world's spotlight is on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Controversy has erupted over pollution and human right issues with regards to China. Is China really guilty of these accusations - and even so - should politics and sports be correlated, or mutually exclusive of one another?

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The Penal Code (377A)

Section 377A of the Penal Code of Singapore is the main remaining piece of legislation which criminalises sex between mutually consenting adult men. Has the proliferation of new media and the internet provided individuals with an avenue to view homosexual pornography, making them more susceptible to homosexuality? Or are these worries unfounded?

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