Estonia 2010 YOG Postal Stationery

To commemorate the 1st Youth Olympic Games located in Singapore, the Estonian post issued a postal stationery on the games opening day, 14 August 2010. The stationery is actually a pre-cancelled post card valid for international mail. The reverse of the card is totally blank, the pictorial part only features pistol shooting, handball, and swimming with a swimmer diving from a starting block; the remaining illustrations feature scenes from the Culture and Education Programme of these games.

France 2010 SYOG issue

France released the YOG stamp 16 June 2010. It looks like "Youth" is the theme that is emphasized, rather than sports, as the stamp design does not contain any image related to sports; the design has the Singapore business district waterfront, the skyscrapers mostly belong to big banks located in the city, and a bunch of youth of many races.

Belgium issue for Singapore Youth Olympic Games 2010

Belgium will release, as part of a sports issue, the stamp commemorating the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games on 14 June 2010. The stamp is issued in a sheetlet of 5.

Singapore 2010 Butterflies (Papillons, Mariposa, Schmetterling)

Released on 21 April 2010, these 4 stamps feature butterflies: 1st Local - Common Birdwing (Troides helena cerberus), 80c - Tailed Jay (Graphium agamemnon agamemnon), $1.10 - Common Posy (Drupedia ravindra moorel), and $2 - Blue Glassy Tiger (Ideopsis vulgaris macrina). A stamp booklet containing 10 self-adhesive versions of the 1st local was also issued.

Singapore 2009 Asian Youth Games

This MyStamp sheet was released 29 June 2009, to mark the opening of the 1st Asian Youth Games (AYG) in Singapore. The release was rather restrained, in that the Singapore Post did not make any big announcement for it, because it was commissioned by the organisers of the AYG; actually it was lumped together with other AYG souvenirs, liked the AYG mascot stuffed toy and AYG mugs, in a sales brochure. What is interesting is that it contains the latest MyStamp 1st local stamps with vignettes featuring the mascot lion playing various sports: table tennis, springboard diving, yachting/sailing, basketball, 10-pin bowling, shooting, volleyball, athletics, soccer and swimming.

Singapore 2010 Trees

To celebrate International Year of Biodiversity, Singapore Post puts 10 local common tress onto 10 stamps, released on 26 May 2010. The 10 trees are Rain Tree (Samanea saman), Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus), Yellow Flame (Peltophorum pterocarpum), Senegal Mahogany (Khaya senegalensis), Broad-leafed Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans), Sea Apple (Syzygium grande), Saga (Adenanthera pavonina), Trumpet Tree (Tabebuia rosea) and Sea Almond (Terminalia catappa).

Singapore 2010 YOG Mascots

This MyStamp sheetlet was released to mark the introduction of the mascots for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (SYOG) - Lyo & Merly, on 21st November 2009. The sheet contains the original 4 stamps issued on 14 August 2009 to mark the 1-year countdown to the opening of the games, and labels with the SYOG logo, and the mascots. The orange creature is Lyo, a young lion, and the blue one is called Merly, supposed to be a youth version of the Merlion .... hmm ... looks that the juvenile Merlion has legs! The remaining question now is whether merlions lay eggs or have life birth ...