SINGAPORE - Joshua Teo was teased and made fun of as a boy.
The other kids would call him alien and Shrek - after the fictional ogre character - and young Joshua would get hurt and upset.
Once, a primary school classmate asked him if his ears looked the way they did because of a car accident. He quietly said no.
The 18-year-old Raffles Institution (RI) graduate has microtia, a birth defect that causes the external part of both ears to be underdeveloped and deformed.
The condition also meant that his hearing was affected and could register only about 40 per cent of all sounds.
Parents of Boy, 12, Who Died of Rare Cancer Say, ‘Time Spent Together Is More Valuable’
When a 12-year-old boy battling cancer died before fulfilling his ambition of getting his Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results, his parents decided to share their message of spending quality time with children.
William and Winnie Lee’s late son, Raphael, had Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a rare genetic condition that predisposed him to various types of cancer. Raphael wanted to sit for his PSLE at Alexandra Primary School, Singapore, before surgery on Nov. 12, 2020.
Tragically, he passed away from complications after the procedure, and before he could collect his exam results.
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At 19, this Singapore Polytechnic student runs a US$25 million tech start-up Being the CEO of a business with 120 employees globally is hard enough, but teenager Harsh Dalal must also juggle classes, homework and, soon enough, National Service.
This chief executive officer is the youngest in his company, bar the interns.
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SINGAPORE: Computer geeks often dream of building that killer app that stands out from the competition like Harsh Dalal, who co-created one of the first screen recorder apps at the age of 13.
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The Big Read: Goodbye T-score, goodbye PSLE stress? Not so fast, as anxious parents size up new scoring system Based on interviews with parents and their children, more often than not, it is the adults who appear to be more anxious than their kids taking the exam.
Parents of Primary 6 pupils across the country heaved a collective sigh of relief last month when their children collected their PSLE results, following a particularly stressful year due to disruptions brought on by COVID-19. (Illustration: Samuel Woo/TODAY)
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Commentary: PSLE scores could impact life outcomes. So don’t let them Where PSLE scores have been a high-stakes milestone for years, the shift towards subject-based banding (SBB) will change that. But SBB also has room for improvement in achieving this aim, says Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng.
A Primary 6 class from Unity Primary waiting to receive their PSLE results, Nov 25, 2020. (Photo: Facebook/Lawrence Wong)
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SINGAPORE: Last month, the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results were released.
Every year, right around the time this happens, we often see people sharing stories on social or traditional media about how they didn’t quite do so well in the PSLE but nevertheless attained success in life.