2012年9月28日星期五
Call for more youths to donate blood
Call for more youths to donate blood
Singapore Red Cross (SRC) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) hope to increase the number of youth donors to 35 per cent by 2014.
Youths, or those aged 16 to 25, currently make up about 30 per cent of the donor population.
The plan to increase the number was revealed at Friday's official opening of a new satellite blood centre at Dhoby Xchange, officially opened by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.
Located in Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, the new blood bank's targeting shoppers and students by making blood donation more convenient.
With the centre close to schools like the Singapore Management University, SRC plans to work with youth groups to organise public blood drives, road-shows and talks.
The Red Cross said one challenge in attracting youth donors is their lack of information about the importance of blood donation.
And as such, it is working with the Education Ministry to include the importance of blood donation in the primary school curriculum.
The first satellite blood donation centre opened in Woodlands in 2011.
HSA said the Bloodbank@Woodlands contributed 10 per cent of the total blood collection last year. And that almost 90 per cent of the donors are repeat donors, most of whom have visited the centre at least twice to donate blood.
And there are plans to open three more of such centres in the east and west of Singapore.
HSA's group director for Blood Services Group, Dr Diana Teo, said: "It's actually all about convenience. Convenience in having a comfortable place to donate blood at. What we want to do is make it easily accessible so people can just meet each other, donate blood, and then maybe go for coffee, tea or dinner."
Blood donor Elias Ye said: "The location is actually more important. Being at Dhoby Ghaut - located in town - means you shop halfway and you see the blood donation centre and you actually might be reminded that actually it's time for you to donate blood."
~News courtesy of Channel Newsasia~
Singapore Red Cross (SRC) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) hope to increase the number of youth donors to 35 per cent by 2014.
Youths, or those aged 16 to 25, currently make up about 30 per cent of the donor population.
The plan to increase the number was revealed at Friday's official opening of a new satellite blood centre at Dhoby Xchange, officially opened by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.
Located in Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, the new blood bank's targeting shoppers and students by making blood donation more convenient.
With the centre close to schools like the Singapore Management University, SRC plans to work with youth groups to organise public blood drives, road-shows and talks.
The Red Cross said one challenge in attracting youth donors is their lack of information about the importance of blood donation.
And as such, it is working with the Education Ministry to include the importance of blood donation in the primary school curriculum.
The first satellite blood donation centre opened in Woodlands in 2011.
HSA said the Bloodbank@Woodlands contributed 10 per cent of the total blood collection last year. And that almost 90 per cent of the donors are repeat donors, most of whom have visited the centre at least twice to donate blood.
And there are plans to open three more of such centres in the east and west of Singapore.
HSA's group director for Blood Services Group, Dr Diana Teo, said: "It's actually all about convenience. Convenience in having a comfortable place to donate blood at. What we want to do is make it easily accessible so people can just meet each other, donate blood, and then maybe go for coffee, tea or dinner."
Blood donor Elias Ye said: "The location is actually more important. Being at Dhoby Ghaut - located in town - means you shop halfway and you see the blood donation centre and you actually might be reminded that actually it's time for you to donate blood."
~News courtesy of Channel Newsasia~
2012年9月12日星期三
2012年8月29日星期三
新加坡下个月起 飞不丹无需转机
新加坡下个月起 飞不丹无需转机
从下个月起，新加坡人将能从新加坡飞往享有“最后的香格里拉”美誉的不丹王国，不丹皇家航空开拓往返新加坡和不丹的新航线，乘客日后无需到泰国或印度转机，行程缩短到大约6个小时。
目前，从樟宜机场出发的乘客，得到泰曼谷或印度的加尔各答（Kolkata）等城市转机，续程飞往不丹唯一的国际机场帕罗（Paro），整个行程至少12个小时。
樟宜机场集团昨天发表文告宣布，不丹皇家航空（Drukair）将从下月1日开始，每个星期提供4趟往返新加坡和帕罗的航班服务。航线所使用的是共有114个座位的空中巴士319型客机，航班将从樟宜机场第一搭客大厦起降。
客机昨天首次登陆新加坡，随行的嘉宾包括不丹公主扬宗（Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck）、不丹资讯及通讯部长，以及多名高级政府官员。
游不丹有最低消费 每人每天200美金
根据不丹旅游局的数据，越来越多新加坡人前往不丹旅行，不丹去年全年接待6万4000名访客，其中约1300名是新加坡人，比2010年的多出70％。
专门代理不丹旅行团队的Druk Asia负责人尊尼哈里申（Joni Herison）说，旅游旺季的往返机票约1550元。他指出，不丹政府规定，每名游客每天至少200美金的最低消费，其中35％用在不丹的建设上。
往返不丹班机时间
新加坡→不丹：每逢星期四及星期日，上午6时从樟宜机场起飞，在加尔各答逗留40至45分钟再续飞，飞抵帕罗的时间预计为当地时间上午9时45分。
不丹→新加坡：每逢星期三及星期六出发，在当地时间上午7时20分起飞，途中在加尔各答逗留，并在本地时间下午3时零5分抵达樟宜机场。
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逾半数国人 上网找便宜
逾半数国人 上网找便宜
更多人选择上网购物，根据尼尔森（Nielsen）公司昨天公布的调查结果，本地有越来越多消费者上网买东西，尤其是食物和饮料等杂货。
计划在未来3到6个月，通过电脑或手机上网购买食品的新加坡人，有大约24％，比2010年多了10％。
调查也发现，58％的国人如果要买杂货，会上网找优惠，比亚太区的39％，以及全球的43％还要高。
上网购物的国人当中，87％会常上网找购物礼券。
调查访问了56个国家的超过2万8000人。
国人上网买什么？
订购旅行服务（39％）
电影票、演唱会票等（39％）
电脑软件、电玩等（28％）
服饰、首饰、配件、鞋子等（28％）
手机、手机配件（27％）
订阅书籍、报章、杂志等刊物（24％）
食物及饮料（24％）
电脑或游戏的硬件和零件（19％）
下载电子书报等（19％）
护肤品、化妆品（19％）
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2012年8月26日星期日
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