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A panel discussion around former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s book, ‘The Avoidable War’, jointly organised by the National University of Singapore’s East Asian Institute, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Faculty of Law.
In his 1999 National Day Rally Speech, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong pointed out that good English should be spoken on national television, in support of Singapore’s Speak Good English Campaign which was slated to be launched the following year. Prime Minister Goh argued that English that was grammatically correct and understood by other […]
On 22 August 1999, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong during a National Day Rally address, described the ‘heartlander’ Singaporean who speaks Singapore English, the colloquial form of English spoken in Singapore commonly referred to as ‘Singlish’, as lagging behind his or her ‘cosmopolitan’ compatriot. This was similarly argued by then Senior Minister Lee Kuan […]
FASS Signs MOU with Temenggong Artists-in-Residence to Collaborate in the Arts, Culture and Heritage
The partnership will create opportunities for FASS students to do internships at Temenggong, participate in field trips and other joint learning activities related to Temenggong’s artifacts and premises, as well as allow students and faculty members to gain access to a wider pool of artwork in the form of Temenggong’s research collection.
This will be Singapore’s largest dedicated study to understand the factors that best influence the adoption of electric vehicles.
In May 2022, the British government announced its new High Potential visa scheme, which allows recent graduates from Singapore’s top two universities to head to the UK to look for jobs. Indeed, internationalization has always been one of the key focuses of Singapore’s higher education. In his new book, Internationalising Higher Education in the Asia […]
Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Research Institute and FASS alumnus (NUS Philosophy, ’71) Professor Kishore Mahbubani recommends three steps the US and China can take to avert a further deterioration in ties.
The study used a combination of a self-reporting questionnaire and behavioural measures to compare the profiles of extreme debtors with control groups.
In December 2019, the newly opened Rise of Asia Museum at Haw Par Villa hosted an international conference titled Great Powers and Grand Strategies in the Asia Pacific 1940 – 1954, attracting scholars studying history, geopolitics, and international relations around the world. As a historical site, Haw Par Villa offered the attending scholars a perfect […]
NUS Presidential Young Professor Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine hopes to build a community of scholars dedicated to the study of understudied languages of Southeast Asia.