Month: April 2017

Dear Member

Keen to check out the restaurants and bars in town and enjoy their latest offerings at special prices?

The Singapore Press Club’s Makan Kakis is a series of food and drinks tastings exclusive to its members and friends.

It’s an opportunity for members and their guests to get together with fellow makan kakis over the shared love for good food and drinks and great company.
The latest in this series is a visit to Patara Fine Thai Cuisine.

Date: Thursday, May 25, 2017
Time: Noon to 2pm
Location: 163 Tanglin Road, #03-14 Tanglin Mall, Singapore 247933
Tel: 6737 0818

Menu and other details: Attached.

Price: $25 nett per person inclusive of a drink (please pay at the door on May 25).

To register, please e-mail secretariat@pressclub.org.sg by May 20. You can include your guests, too. Please indicate the number of people attending.

Best regards
The Secretariat
Singapore Press Club
Executive Set Lunch

Dear Member

Kazakhstan will host Expo 2017 in Astana from June 10 to September 10 under the theme “Future Energy”. More than a 100 countries, including Singapore, will have pavilions.

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making special arrangements for the Singapore Press Club’s members to visit the Expo, the cities of Astana and Almaty and the resort town of Burabay from July 23-31.

The trip also includes celebrating Singapore’s National Day at the Expo on July 25 and meetings with governments officials and business leaders.
The details are attached.

SPC members will have to pay for the trip but will get discounts in terms of airline tickets and hotel accommodation.

The Kazakhstan MFA will bear the ground transport charges and entry costs to the Expo, museums, historical sites and galleries.

The total cost indicated is an estimate. It will be much lower after Air Astana and the hotels in Astana and Almaty grant discounts.

For registration (you can include your family members and friends too) and more details, please get in touch with:

Mr Nurlan Meirmanov
Third Secretary
Embassy of Kazakhstan to Singapore
Tel: +65 6235 7150
Mob: +65 9247 63 01
WhatsApp: +7 701 5555 761
Nurlan.meirmanov@gmail.com
1 Kim Seng Promenade #09-04/05
Great World City, East Office Tower, Singapore 237994

Closing date for registration: May 20, 2017.

Programme of Stay to Kazakhstan (July 23-30)

Best regards
The Secretariat
Singapore Press Club

Dear Member

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day.

The Singapore Press Club would like to mark the day by asking members to observe a minute’s silence in memory of the 48 journalists who were killed worldwide in 2016 while performing their duties.

Since 1992, the number of journalists killed has reached 1,237, according to the International Association of Press Clubs.

Last year, among those killed were Soe Moe Tun of Myanmar’s Daily Eleven and Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Omar in Syria.

Show your support by observing a minute’s silence on May 3 between 6pm and 9pm local time and using/posting/tweeting #remembering. You can also post a selfie or change your profile picture to the press ribbon (http://pressclubs.org/event/725/).

Thank you.

Best regards
The Secretariat
Singapore Press Club

Dear Member,

The Asian Environmental Journalism Awards (AEJA) will be given out for 2017!

Applications are now open for journalists in Singapore, Asia and beyond, at no charge.

Click on the banner below to find out more about the AEJA and submit your entries before 17 July 2017!

Best regards
The Secretariat
Singapore Press Club

Dear Golf League members

We are already into the second quarter of 2017 and some of you may be wondering when our Diplomats Quarterly Challenge will start. I’m glad to say we’ve finally nailed down a date and venue for our first match – May 5, Friday morning, at Sembawang Country Club.

We’d like as many of our members to sign up to support the event. As before, our captain Patrick Daniel will select the team to play against the diplomats whilst the rest of us will compete in the Golf League and strive to move up the leaderboard before we crown the champion at our annual tournament.

We have negotiated a discounted rate at $94.50+GST per golfer, with members of SCC paying only the buggy fee. We will be giving out prizes to the best performing players at a post-game lunch which the Press Club will pick up the tab.

Please sign up with the secretariat at secretariat@pressclub.org.sg by 26 April.

We look forward to a great day on the greens. Golf is a game of the mind, stay calm, focus and golf on.

Best
Jacqueline Wu
Golf Convenor, Singapore Press Club

Dear Member

You are invited to a guided tour of the showcase “Remembering our Founders – The Making of a Memorial” at the Waterview Room at the Flower Dome of Gardens by the Bay.

Following the passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, members of the public made many suggestions as to how to remember and honour Singapore’s founding father. In response, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong mooted the idea of a Founders’ Memorial to honour not just Mr Lee but also our founding leaders, and appointed Mr Lee Tzu Yang to chair a committee to gather views from the public to see if this idea resonates with Singaporeans.
The committee has been engaging the public and stakeholder groups over the past two years on the narrative, form and location for the memorial – as well as the meanings and journeys it could offer for different visitor groups.

The showcase recounts the milestones of the engagement process during which the committee sought Singaporeans’ views regarding the content, features and location of the memorial. The showcase also presents the findings of the engagement process and allows visitors to contribute their own views.

Here’s a video of what the showcase looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADtHEP59O3Q

Date:	10 April 2017 (Monday)
Time:	10am (please gather outside Waterview Room)
Programme	10.00am: Guided Tour of the Showcase 10.30am: Garden Cruiser cum audio tour to Bay East Garden (pls note, in event of wet weather, the buggy ride will not run) 11.00am:  End of Tour
Directions	·         If you are travelling by car or taxi, please see the attached pdf for directions to the Visitor Centre.  The Waterview Room is a 5-minute walk from the Visitor Centre (follow directions to the Flower Dome). ·         If you are travelling by MRT, alight at Bayfront MRT Station (CE1/DT16). Take Exit B and follow the underground linkway to Gardens by the Bay. Waterview Room is located next to the Flower Dome, and is a 15-minute walk from the MRT (see the map below).

Please register at https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/remembering-our-founders-the-making-of-a-memorial-tickets-33417343173 by Friday, April 7. You can take guests too.

Dear Member

Many thanks to members who attended our AGM on March 30. We are glad to report that our new Constitution has been finally approved by our members and endorsed by the Registrar of Societies.

Our new constitution provides for new, higher membership fees and new membership classes, and allows for changes to be made from time to time, on the recommendation of the Management Committee (MC).

While the Constitution is effective from March 31, 2017, the members agreed that the MC may delay the increments for the time being as part of the Club’s membership drive. The MC has decided to make the new rates effective from June 1, 2017.

So, current members can renew their memberships at  the old rates for renewal if they do so before  June 1.

Memberships that expire in 2017 are eligible for renewal at the current rates if renewal applications are received before June 1.

As an additional benefit, current members are also encouraged to renew their memberships for up to 3 years at the old rates.

New members who apply before June 1 will also be eligible for membership at the old rates. Please do encourage your colleagues who are not yet members to sign up.

The old rates (per year) that will prevail until May 31, 2017:
Regular: $30
Associate: $100
Corporate: $100
Life (Regular) one-time: $400
Life (Associate) one-time: $1,000

The new  rates (per year) that will kick in from June 1, 2017:
Regular: $50
Associate: $150

Corporate : $1,000 (one time payment). The first 3 corporate members: $200 each; additional fourth and subsequent corporate member: $250 each.
Social: $100
Life (Regular): one-time $600
Life (Associate): one-time $1,500
Student : $40

Here is the link to membership rates http://www.pressclub.org.sg/2017/04/renew-membership-at-old-rates/

Best regards
The Secretariat
Singapore Press Club