Paraguay 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games

I recently come across this set of Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games issue from Paraguay. The set has 2 stamps, one featuring tennis and the other shows some youth participants of the games. I have not found out the issue date, and would appreciate help from any quarter on this matter.

Singapore 2011 Centennial of First Flight in Singapore

5 stamps were issued on 16 March 2011 to mark a centenary of the first flight in Singapore. Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane for 12 seconds on 17 December 1903, and in only 7 years and a few months later, on 16 March 2011, Mr Josef Christiaens (1879-1919), Blegian engineer and aviator, took off from the Singapore Farrer Park racecourse in a Bristol Box-Kite biplane! This historical event is featured in the 1st local stamp from this current issue, as well as the commemorative postcard together with the special postmark, released by the Singapore Philatelic Museum. The 45-cent stamp captured the landing of a Fokker F-VIIA at the civilian airport in Seletar on 10 February 1930, this being the first commercial flight from Batavia (now Jakarta) to Singapore. The 65-cent stamp features the Airspeed Consul with Kallang Airport as the background, and the 80-cent stamp features the F-15SG against the backdrop of Paya Lebar Airport. The $1.10 stamp features the Airbus A380 flown by Singapore Airlines, with Changi Airport in the background, Singapore Airlines was the first commercial operator in the world to provide flights on the A380.

Armenia Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games Complete Sheet

I finally managed to get hold of a complete sheet of the Armenian issue for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games. I had previously implied that the sheet selvage is printed with 14 different sports logos; I was wrong, the actual number of logos printed is 15, but only 11 different sports were represented. The sports so represented are athletics, football (soccer), weightlifting, shooting, gymnastics, rowing, taekwando, water polo, cycling, hockey and tennis.

Singapore 2011 Spirit of Giving

Singapore Post released 2 very large stamps on 24 january, under the theme title of "Spirit of Giving", in conjunction with the 21st IAVE (International Association for Volunteer Effort) World Volunteer Conference. The size of both stamps is 73.8 mm x 76 mm; it would be hardput to find space to stick these stamps onto a regular envelope; the last time a very large stamp was issued was in 2006 with a 98 mm x 66.7 mm $2-stamp marking the first Art Biennale (pronounced as bi-na-le) in Singapore.

Unlike many other countries where stamps in aid of a movement include a surcharge, for this issue a sum of S$0.50 was donated to the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) for the sale of every pre-cancelled first day cover or every presentation pack. The stamp design showcases winning entries of a children art competition organized by th NVPC in 2010.

This set of stamps can be obviously classed under the theme of children's art, there is also a very clear drawing of an elderly woman on a wheelchair in the $2.00 stamp, pointing to the theme of the disabled and the handicapped. Surprisingly, the $1.10 stamp design contains the word "vitagen", a specific brand of cultured milk drink, coupled with the rubric "less sugar". I just wonder if this is free advertisement for Vitagen.

Guinea Bissau 2010 SYOG Gold Medalists

A commercial issue marking the Youth Olympics Games in Singapore has come to light. This first set is issued for Guinea Bissau with a sheetlet containing 4 stamps, and miniature sheet with a single stamp in it. The issue actually celebrates the gold medalists for several events: judo, kayaking, tennis, teble tennis and swimming. The 4 stamps in the sheetlet features the following young athletes: judo men 100 kg winner Ryosuke Igarashi from Japan, swimming women's 50 m backstroke winner Mathilde Cini from France, tennis women's single winner Daria Gavrilova from Russia, and kayaking women's K1 slalom winner Jessica Fox from Australia. The stamp on the miniature sheet features judo women 53 kg winner Miku Tashiro from Japan; the sheet selvage features 2 other gold medalists: table tennis women singles winner Gu Yuting and tennis women doubles winner Zheng Saisai, both from China. Neither sheet contains any official logo for the Singapore Youth Olympic Games, however, judoka Miku in the miniature sheet is shown clasping the games mascot Merly. Every medalist at these games were given a mini stuffed mascot, Merly for girls and Lyo for boys.

Armenia 2010 SYOG

The Armenian Post released the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games on 26 November 2010. The stamp features representative icons for 3 sports - weightlifting, wrestling and boxing. The icons on the stamp are not the official ones for the Youth Olympics, however, the official icons are printed on the sheet margins. The stamp is issued in sheets of 2 x 5 stamps, so there are 14 different icons on a sheet.

2011 Year of Rabbit

The first stamp issue for 2011 rightly gives us the Year of Rabbit stamps. The set follows the general design theme for this 2nd cycle of the Chinese Zodiac, with 3 stamps - 1st Local NVI, 65c and $1.10. However, the collector's sheet is slightly different from the previously 3 for the Years of Rat, Ox & Tiger. The collector's sheets for those 3 years contain real holographic transitions of the animals of preceding, current and following years, for 2011, the collector's sheet is coated with a UV sensitive layer, which supposedly brings out the tiger in the $5-stamp and the dragon in the $10.00 stamp.