NDP 2020 Kick In At 7 pm, Citizen Can Sing Anthem With Nation In Real-Time
The National Day Parade (NDP) will certainly look different from the few previous years ago. Apart from number of participants and the audience being decentralized where allowing Singaporeans to participate at home it will certainly a totally different experience this year.
On National Day (9 Aug), all Singaporeans are encouraged to sing the National Anthem song from their homes as flag-raising ceremonies which will happen islandwide. The Anthem moment by the NDP organizing committee urged that all Singaporean tune in to the live broadcast of flag-raising ceremonies and record themselves singing the National Anthem.
At 10:30 sharp, flag-raising ceremonies will be held in 7 locations across Singapore, each representing a “key national sector” hit by the Covid-19 virus. These are:
Changi Airport — transport
Enabling Village — social services
Kampung Admiralty — housing and community
Lifelong Learning Institute — employment and skills
National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) — healthcare
North Vista Secondary School — education
NTUC FairPrice Hub — trade and Industry
A flag-raising ceremony will also be held at the Padang.
7 ministers will be observing the ceremonies at each of the 7 locations:
- Changi Airport — Ong Ye Kung
- Enabling Village — Masagos Zulkifli
- Kampung Admiralty — Desmond Lee
- Lifelong Learning Institute — Josephine Teo
- National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) — Gan Kim Yong
- North Vista Secondary School — Lawrence Wong
- NTUC FairPrice Hub — Chan Chun Sing
President Halimah Yacob, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, as well as Ministers Ng Eng Hen and K. Shanmugam will be present at the NDP, seated outside the National Gallery. The programs highlighted above are just a few that the NDP organizing committee has come up with. Check out the full lineup here.
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