News 1: This year, there are likely to be only three televised fund raisers,down from six or so a year in the glory days before the NKF scandal erupted in 2005.Charities said that with the high costs of staging-about $1million for each show are not confident of pulling in the millions in donations needed to make the event worthwhile.

News opinion(1):I agree that in this gloomy economy, lots of Singaporeans will consider for a while before donating the money to the poor. But, i think that lots of Singaporeans have a kind heart and they definitely will help the unfortunates .But after the NKF incident some people learnt their lesson for trusting the charities and now they don't donate a single cents to the charities. I think what the people did was not right. They should give them a chance and should not judge them at the first incident. In some charity show, the mediacorp artiste risks their lives so that people could donate more money. But some people like Ming Yi Fa Si take that for granted and use their acts to swindle money to buy luxuries for themselves. But some people train very hard to perform dangerous acts to help the unfortunates. I agree that it is hard to know which people is not greedy,but at least we could donate a little moeny and that might help the unfortunates too.