Coming up: 'Kids at work' theme park

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Children visiting the upcoming $90 million kids' theme park at Sentosa can look forward to "working" as doctors, pilots and journalists at local firms.

Set to open in 2015, KidZania Singapore is in talks with home-grown businesses to help make the miniature city uniquely Singaporean. For example, the "bank" and "airplane" in the theme park would bear logos of an actual local bank and airline.

KidZania Singapore is a collaboration between Mexican company KidZania and Malaysia's Themed Attractions and Resorts (TAR), which operates the existing KidZania park in Kuala Lumpur and Legoland in Johor.

TAR's chief executive Ahmad Burhanuddin said in KidZania Kuala Lumpur, those aged four to 14 "work" for companies such as CIMB Bank, airline AirAsia and newspaper company The New Straits Times.

The idea behind KidZania is for children to learn values such as hard work and punctuality through role play.

The park offers 90 occupations for children, who can pretend to be police officers, doctors, journalists or postmen.

Doing their jobs well will earn them "money" they can use in the "city" to buy things such as food.

The 80,000 sq ft indoor theme park will also be the anchor tenant at Sentosa's new Family Entertainment Centre. Work on the centre will start in the middle of this year.