Post on 16-Jul-2015
Beacon Current Affairs 2015
Term 1 Week 10
Who am I?
Names in the news Places in the news
Save our Street Dogs (pg2)The Big Spell (pg6-7) Taiwan (pg12)
Words in the News
(pg2)underprivileged
autism Cerebral palsy
counselling
(Pg6-7)preliminary
PrivilegeCoup
Psyche
(Pg8-9)Bachelor’s degree
CPFincome tax
rebate
(pg12)outragedcarcass
force-feedsnout
Getting a helping paw (pg2)
Save Our Street Dogs is an animal welfare group in Singapore
It recently changed its name to SOSD
They are now rescuing stray dogs to help the elderly and underprivileged children
Big turnout for the big spell (pg6-7)
118 primary schools and 1654 pupils turned up for the preliminary round of the RHD-The Straits Times National Spelling Championship
You can go to www.straitstimes.com/bigspell to follow the action
The Budget: How it affects your family (pg 8-9)
The Budget and what it means to you (pg 8-9)
Singaporeans aged 40 and above get a subsidy for education and training courses
So if your parents want to do part-time studies, they now pay less!
CPF salary cap increased For adults earning more than $5000, they get more CPF but less pay)
Your family gets a 1-time income-tax rebate
More GST vouchers for the lower-income households
Ire over giant pigs (pg12)
Animal rights activists are outraged over Taiwan’s annual “Holy Pig” festival
Here, pig owners compete to display the largest pig.
The heaviest pig was 714 kg
They claim that farmers use inhumane methods to force the pigs to keep eating
“Look forward to hearing from all of you on the current affairs blog”
–Mr Ng