Images and meanings in political cartoon

understand the meaning of images used in political cartoons.

Flash cards - start by looking at the images and their meaning Scatter Game

Singapore's Total Fertility Rate up from 1.2 to 1.29

Why was the Marriage and Parenthood package introduced?
Do you think it was effective?
What will be the impacts of declining fertility rate?

Studying sources - things to note

Some of you have been asking about SBQ - something which you might want to look out for.

Will North Korea's decision to restart nuclear reactor creates new tension?

The conflict between North and South Korea - difference in political ideologies?

SME

How can encouraging the growth of SME help to sustain Singapore's Economic Growth? 

Population White Paper

Understanding more about the population white paper  - our problems and limitations in population issues - using the snake and ladder game. The original version was published in the Chinese section of Mypaper on 8 Feb 2013 - http://epaper.mypaper.sg/emnd/fvxcn/fvxp/fvxpress.php?param=2013-02-08

Do you agree with what renowned population expert Professor Wolfgang Lutz thinks about our fertility rate, and how a Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1 might not be ideal? Will our current fertility rate of 1.3 be sustainable?

Watch the related videos on http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dtqGE5gohO_3laQpC9fPCJxx-2VQeZj

Conflict in Syria

Lara Setrakian, co-founder and managing editor of Syria Deeply, used Prezi’s new audio feature to create an immersive prezi about the Syria Crisis.

ASEAN on South China Sea

Do you think ASEAN would be effective in resolving the territorial disputes in South China Sea?

Game on Governance and Citizenship

Demgames is used by local government in the United Kingdom to teach its younger citizens how governance and Citizenship works. Click here to play the game.

revision

Link provided by students for revision:
https://sites.google.com/site/urbangeekclassroomsg/social-studies#TOC-Understanding-Goveranance

Singapore population policy

Ch 2 Governance: Population Policy from ang_mei_feng_karen

Violence continues in Northern Ireland

47 police officers hurt during Belfast riot triggered by Irish republican parade
3 Sept 2012
47 police officers have been injured during overnight clashes with Protestant extremists angry over a Belfast parade by Irish republicans from the Catholic side of the community. Sunday night's violence came as Irish republicans paraded near British Protestant districts of north Belfast. Such demonstrations, usually by the Protestant side, trigger riots every summer in Northern Ireland. Police donning flame-retardent suits, helmets and shields spent nine hours standing their ground versus mobs of masked, hooded Protestants. More than 100 rioters threw bottles, bricks and fireworks at police lines until early Monday.

Extracted from: http://www.theprovince.com/news/police+officers+hurt+during+Belfast+riot+triggered+Irish+republican/7182578/story.html#ixzz25ZEmtzPo

Northern Irish Police Officers Hurt in Second Night of Violence

 September 04, 2012

Rioters in Northern Ireland injured 15 policemen during a second night of violence in Belfast. The police officers used water cannon and fired plastic bullets against the rioters. Rival Protestant and Catholic gangs threw petrol bombs, bricks and bottles, and pushed a hijacked van into police lines. The violence will have a negative impact on jobs, tourism and investment in Northern Ireland.Rioters injured 50 police in the first night of trouble. 

The violence was sparked by a parade, which remain frequent flash points for confrontation even after armed violence in Northern Ireland largely ended more than a decade ago. The Parades Commission, an independent body which rules on contentious marches, allowed the September 2 parade by republicans, who want a united Ireland, to take place without restrictions.The Orange Order, a mainly Protestant marching group, criticized that decision and said the Parades Commission should be disbanded. Orange Order leaders said a Protestant parade planned for the end of this month in the same area must be allowed to proceed without any restrictions. 

Extracted from: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-04/northern-irish-police-officers-hurt-in-second-night-of-violence

The violence began at 21.00pm on the night of monday 20 June 2012 in Northern Ireland when a large number of Protestant loyalists made their way from mount and castlereagh street areas to the Catholic nationalist short strand this provoked a response from the nationalists which resulted in both communities seeking to get involved in violence with each other around 500-600 people were involved in the riots these riots are said to have been initially instigated by the UVF in East Belfast.  Read more on the East Belfast Riots: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Northern_Ireland_riots



Will the conflicts between the Catholics and Protestants be resolved? Watch the video from BBC to understand what caused the conflict.

Read more about it from NLB -http://libguides.nl.sg/content.php?pid=109756&sid=827173
You can watch the documentary below on how the conflict between the Catholics and Protestants started:

Sustaining Singapore's Economic growth

Why is there a need for Singapore  to venture abroad?

What are the other ways in which Singapore can sustain its economic growth?

Other than food chains, what other businesses are expanded overseas?

What had been done to encourage the growth of SME in Singapore?

How does the growth of SME help to sustain Singapore's economic growth?

Role of ASEAN in resolving conflicts

Will Southeast Asian nations stay united on the South China Sea dispute?

China claims sovereignty over nearly all of the resource-rich sea, which is home to vital shipping lanes, but ASEAN members the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei have overlapping claims in the area.  There were divisions over ASEAN members' territorial disputes with Beijing.  The rift has held up progress on a proposed "code of conduct" between ASEAN and China aimed at preventing flare-ups in the contested waters.

Extracted from http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1214450/1/.html

What is the role of ASEAN in resolving conflicts as reflected here?

Role of UN in Syria conflict

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1213488/1/.html 

What is the role of UN as a peace keeping organisation in this?
Would sanctions be effective in resolving the conflict?