Singapore welcomes babies born on National Day


Foo Shuo Qian and her husband Teo Geng Lun welcomed a baby boy at the stroke of midnight on Aug 9. - ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Foo Shuo Qian had expected her baby to be born on Monday (Aug 8), after labour was induced earlier that day.

That would have been an auspicious birth, falling on the eighth day of the eighth month - eight being the luckiest number in Chinese culture due to its association with prosperity.

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