This document summarizes four current affairs articles from Beacon Current Affairs 2014: 1) An upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival lantern display in Chinatown featuring over 3000 lanterns along New Bridge Road and Eu Tong Sen Street, lasting until September 28th. 2) Singapore's role as a trade route for illegal bear bile products sourced from endangered Asian black bears and Sun bears in countries like Cambodia, China, Vietnam and Russia. 3) Details from Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally about developing the Jurong area from its past as a gambier plantation called Peng Kang, and today's industrial hub. 4) An overview of two sub-groups of herbiv

1. T3W10
Beacon Current
Affairs 2014

2. Who was I?

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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!

8. Look forward to hearing from all of you on the
Current Affairs Blog, and have a great September
holidays :)
-Mr Ng