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April 7, 2000
SINGAPORE, APR 6 (AP) - The Singapore government is launching yet another campaign to instill certain moral values in its citizens, and this time it's urging them to be kinder to plants, animals and each other.
Kindness Week is meant to create a "more gracious society, a more gentle society," Noel Hon, chairman of the Singapore Kindness Movement, said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will inaugurate the campaign on Saturday.
Over the years, the government has run many campaigns, urging Singaporeans to be more courteous, smile more often, exercise more, and speak better Mandarin instead of Chinese dialects, or, alternatively, better English.
Kindness Week includes the launching of a book titled "Always in Season," which, in Hon's words, is "a harvest of kindness stories that pertain to the acts of kindness Singaporeans have experienced."
There'll be a "Kindness City" at a shopping mall, where people can fill out pledges to perform acts of kindness. The pledges will be hung on a kindness tree.
There'll be a barn where children can play with small animals and learn to be kind to them.
"We'll also be giving plants away to people," Hon said.
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