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