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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong distributed food packages to several needy residents at a National Day carnival for Ang Mo Kio GRC and Yio Chu Kang yesterday.
He released 43 red and white helium balloons into the air to kick off the day-long event with more than 5,000 residents.
Together with the other MPs for the area - Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Mr Inderjit Singh, Mr Wee Siew Kim, Ms Lee Bee Wah, Dr Lam Pin Min and Mr Seng Han Thong - Mr Lee blew the candles on a birthday cake for Singapore.
He also presented two cheques for $50,050 each to China's Ambassador to Singapore, Madam Zhang Xiaokang, and Singapore Red Cross chief Christopher Chua. They were for victims of the Sichuan earthquake and Myanmar cyclone in May, respectively.
The money had been raised by grassroots groups, shopkeepers and residents.
Madam Zhang later told reporters that Mr Lee had congratulated her on the successful opening of the Olympics on Friday night.
'This is an Olympics which the people of China have prepared for the world, from the bottom of their hearts,' she said. She also wished Singaporeans a happy National Day. FairPrice managing director Seah Kian Peng also gave Mr Lee a cheque for $102,000 from the NTUC FairPrice Foundation, for vouchers for residents in need.
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong distributed food packages to several needy residents at a National Day carnival for Ang Mo Kio GRC and Yio Chu Kang yesterday.
He released 43 red and white helium balloons into the air to kick off the day-long event with more than 5,000 residents.
Together with the other MPs for the area - Dr Balaji Sadasivan, Mr Inderjit Singh, Mr Wee Siew Kim, Ms Lee Bee Wah, Dr Lam Pin Min and Mr Seng Han Thong - Mr Lee blew the candles on a birthday cake for Singapore.
He also presented two cheques for $50,050 each to China's Ambassador to Singapore, Madam Zhang Xiaokang, and Singapore Red Cross chief Christopher Chua. They were for victims of the Sichuan earthquake and Myanmar cyclone in May, respectively.
The money had been raised by grassroots groups, shopkeepers and residents.
Madam Zhang later told reporters that Mr Lee had congratulated her on the successful opening of the Olympics on Friday night.
'This is an Olympics which the people of China have prepared for the world, from the bottom of their hearts,' she said. She also wished Singaporeans a happy National Day. FairPrice managing director Seah Kian Peng also gave Mr Lee a cheque for $102,000 from the NTUC FairPrice Foundation, for vouchers for residents in need.