With more households owning computers and the Internet becoming increasingly pervasive in Singapore, the likelihood of a bigger proportion of the population hooked on online activities such as games is now higher, according to field workers.Sim Ngee Mong, senior social worker at Covenant Family Service Centre (FSC), said in an e-mail interview that the risk factor for computer addiction is "going up". He runs a computer addiction resource Web site, which is a project of the Covenant FSC.
"Schools are pushing students to do more work on the computer," he noted. "The government is supporting the games industry by encouraging people to take up courses to develop games even though [the authorities are] not actively supporting [game-playing] as a sport." Full Story
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