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1. The Straits Times (Singapore)

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Acknowledgements

1. Ms Sharon Xu Lei, teacher mentor and coach, for her invaluable guidance and advice along the way much in the areas of administrative work such as contacting organizations and securing interview timeslots for us, as well for opening the school computer labs and staying late into the night to supervise our work, giving us much needed time and resources to work on our site and ordering food for us.

2. Mrs Cheryl Yap, who helped us in vetting our project and providing valuable comments and suggestions

3. Ms Mabel Chia, our English-Literature teacher, for helping us read through the site

4. Chen Kailun, our classmate, who provided some of the photographs in the gallery

5. Various respondents from the public who we surveyed

6. ?Mr Desmond Lee, Assistant Director of International Relations Department, Policy & Planning Division, The National Environment Agency (Singapore), for taking time off from his busy schedule to grant us an interview on this topic

7. Dr Chang Chew-Hung, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for taking time off his busy schedule to grant us a short interview regarding this topic

8. Dr Chris Huang, Doctor at Huang’s Surgery at Valley Point, for taking time off his busy schedule to grant us an interview on this topic

9. Ms Tay Lee San, Senior Scientific Officer of Pollution Control Department, The National Environment Agency, Singapore, for providing us with much statistical data, helping us with our questions and liaising with us

10. Our parents, for picking us up late at night from school and being so understanding in the course of our project
    
    
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