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Dr Nala Lee (NUS alumna and Assistant Professor of Linguistics) who is Peranakan Chinese by birth, tells us more about her language documentation work on her heritage language, Baba Malay.
Dr Azhar Ibrahim, Senior Lecturer from the Dept of Malay Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS College of Humanities and Sciences, explains why ‘Malay History’ is one of the best works in the world of Malay literature and remains relevant to our modern times.
Suria News Online, 24 April 2022
In April 2022, a team led by Year 3 NUS Philosophy student Aingeal Keong came ahead of more than eighty teams in the Green Track to clinch a spot in the International Semi-Finals of the global L’Oréal Brandstorm 2022 competition.
In the late 1990s, there were concerns of a decline in Singapore’s standard of English. This was attributed to Singaporeans’ penchant of using Singlish in casual conversation, which is grammatically incorrect and not commonly understood among foreigners. To reverse this problem, the Speak Good English Movement was launched on 29 April 2000 to discourage the […]
As part of the #DiscoverFASS@CHS campaign leading up to our Open House in May, we are holding in-person Masterclasses presented by three of our award-winning Faculty members this Saturday, 23 April 2022, and streaming them ‘live’ on our website—so NO ONE misses them.
United through shared memories and passions, the Class of ’72 — and their close long-time friends — continues to give back to the NUS community, 50 years since their graduation.
For close to a century, generations of students have passed through the NUS Bukit Timah Campus, their memories adding to its long history — a story that continues to be written.
While meritocracy has levelled the playing field and blurred ethnic lines for earlier cohorts of Singaporeans, new inequalities have emerged.
The first Sikh studies professorship to be set up in Asia (outside the Indian subcontinent) will be administered by the NUS FASS South Asian Studies Programme, and aims to promote academic scholarship in Sikh studies not just in Singapore but also globally.
The street light-up for Ramadan and Hari Raya Puasa was first introduced in 1984 by Singapore’s Tourism Task Force. Now an annual affair, the light-up takes place for around a month from April to May at the Geylang Serai precinct, one of the most prominent ‘Malay places’ in Singapore. In ‘Locating “Malay Places” and Ethnic […]