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T3W10
Beacon Current Affairs 2014
Who was I?
Names in the news Places in the news
Lee Hsien Loong (9) Batam / Japan / China (pg12)
Words in the News
(pg2)!full bloom!
various flowers (peony, bauhinia,
narcissus, frangipani)
(Pg4)!bile!
gall bladder!prohibited!epilepsy
(Pg9)!rural!
gambier!diarrhoea!skeptical
(pg18)!quadrupedal!
scutes!osteoderms!
frilly
Floral lantern spectacle (pg2)❖ If you visit Chinatown during
Mid-autumn festival this year, you will see streets lit by over 3000 lanterns!
❖ They took 36 craftsmen 1.5 months to complete!
❖ Will stretch from New Bridge Road to Eu Tong Sen Street!
❖ There will also be nightly performances and bazaars!
❖ Lasts till 28 September
Fighting the bear-bile trade (pg4)❖ Singapore is a trade route for
illegal bear bile products!❖ People will kill the bears, take out
their bile and sell them in other countries!
❖ This is illegal as it targets endangered Asian black bears and Sun bears!
❖ Singapore had 23 cases reported in 2011; other countries involved are Cambodia, China, Vietnam and Russia
Journey to the west (pg9)❖ During the National Day Rally, Lee
Hsien Loong outlined his plans to develop Jurong!
❖ Called Peng Kang in the past, or gambier plantation!
❖ Jurong came from “Je-rung”, meaning sharks (but there were no sharks in the area, only crocodiles)!
❖ Jurong Island houses many factories and refineries!
❖ Today, it is filled with factories, shopping malls and industries
Defensive Dinos (pg18)❖ Meet the Marginocephalia and
Thyreophora - two sub-groups of herbivorous dinosaurs!
❖ Thyreophora - quadrupedal, covered with plates / spines, have relatively small brains!
❖ Example - Stegosaurus!❖ Marginocephalia - fringed-head
dinosaurs!❖ Had heads with frilly combs or horns!❖ Example - Triceratops!❖ Google these names to see what they
look like!
-Mr Ng
Look forward to hearing from all of you on the Current Affairs Blog, and have a great September
holidays :)