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| Dazzling opening for Night Festival Posted: HUNDREDS of people crowded the front of the National Museum of Singapore, as the Singapore Night Festival opened with dazzling displays of fire, lights and acrobatics. Close to 80 free events, from dance performances and art installations to film screenings will be held throughout the civic district over this weekend and the next.The event will continue tonight and on Aug 30 and 31, from 7pm to 2am. Stretching from Plaza Singapura to Raffles City and Waterloo Street to Armenian Street and Fort Canning Park, this is the largest night festival yet, and it will cost its organisers, the National Heritage Board, more than S$1mil (RM2.5mil) to produce. Angelita Teo, 41, festival director and director of the National Museum of Singapore, said it was hoping to draw as many people as last year, when 476,000 attended. One of the highlights was French dance troupe Compagnie Retouramont's performances, which featured dancers moving rhythmically across the museum's facade. Nearly 100 local artists are performing at the festival this year. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network |
| Two measures to help Malay Muslims Posted: TWO new measures were announced by the government to help the Malay-Muslim community shrink the income gap and increase its social mobility. One will give tuition subsidies to Malay students at another four tertiary institutions: Lasalle College of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa), Yale-NUS College and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University. The other will hand the Malay/ Muslim Community Development Fund a higher grant of up to S$2.6mil (RM6.7mil) a year to help more low-income families in their community. Currently, it is S$1mil (RM2.5mil). These measures, announced by Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Dr Yaacob Ibrahim last night, form the government's first response to a landmark report on the community's concerns and aspirations, submitted last month. He asked for more time for him and other Malay-Muslim MPs to reflect on job discrimination. Dr Yaacob, also the Communications and Information Minister, was speaking at the community's Hari Raya Aidilfitri dinner at Sheraton Hotel, in an annual speech taking stock of its progress and charting its future direction. -The Straits Times / Asia News Network |
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