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Singaporean Mariana Sulaiman and her British husband Miles Peckham-Cooper registered their daughter Nadra Jane as Malay-Caucasian last year as it gives them more options when choosing schools and the languages she can take up
One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so.
This full-year figure, released for the first time to The Straits Times, comes a year after the policy was implemented in January last year.
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said 16 per cent of mixed-race babies born last year were recorded as being of dual race.
About four in five of those mixed-race babies had their father's race listed first, while one in five had their mother's listed first.
'We think it is important for our children to know their roots. We have given them Korean names to remind them they are of a mixed heritage,' Ms Yu Hee Kyung, 36, a Korean married to a Chinese Singaporean. The couple, who are self-employed, are considering applying for a switch to a dual race for both of their children.
Singaporean Mariana Sulaiman and her British husband Miles Peckham-Cooper registered their daughter Nadra Jane as Malay-Caucasian last year as it gives them more options when choosing schools and the languages she can take up
One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so.
This full-year figure, released for the first time to The Straits Times, comes a year after the policy was implemented in January last year.
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said 16 per cent of mixed-race babies born last year were recorded as being of dual race.
About four in five of those mixed-race babies had their father's race listed first, while one in five had their mother's listed first.
'We think it is important for our children to know their roots. We have given them Korean names to remind them they are of a mixed heritage,' Ms Yu Hee Kyung, 36, a Korean married to a Chinese Singaporean. The couple, who are self-employed, are considering applying for a switch to a dual race for both of their children.
