Sep 2022
For the benefit of those less familiar with the East, the culturally rich neighbourhood of Katong was an area once filled with coconut plantations and dominated by seaside bungalows and pre-war shophouses for wealthy Peranakans and Eurasians.
Today, the shophouses continue to stand strong with its immaculate motifs and colourful facades while many of the bungalows have given way to high rise condominiums. In fact, Aurum Land’s acquisition of several landed homes to build NYON has effectively brought the end to landed property plots left along Amber Road.
Playing on its distinguished surroundings, NYON’s very name is inspired by the word “Nyonya”, a term which the Peranakan Chinese community commonly refer to themselves by.
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Class act? Not quite
With the state government restarting Vidyagama in a fresh avatar and planning to start
offline classes for Class 10 and IInd PU from January 1, schools are mulling over the measures needed to make this a success. Experts feel that it resuming offline classes so soon would be catastrophic unless the vaccine has significantly reduced
covid caseload.
Many parents are still apprehensive about sending kids to school. Sreeja S, a parent, said, “I am a teacher and I have to go to the campus to teach.
However, as a mother, I feel that it is still not the time to send kids to school, until the vaccine has reduced the number of covid cases. Even if schools reopen, the choice of online learning should be there.”