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Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng from the Dept of Japanese Studies at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences discussed the popular retirement places in Asia, and whether Singapore’s high cost of living which dissuades the average Westerner from retiring here would also encourage Singaporeans to look to places in Asia for retirement.
A study by Assistant Professor Tan Poh Lin from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS found that married women in their peak child-bearing age in Singapore have a lot less sex than they desire, thwarted by stress and fatigue. The findings have significant bearing on Singapore’s fertility rate. This independent research is the first here to examine the coital frequency of married women at their peak child-bearing ages, and to understand the effects of stress and fatigue on their sex lives.
“A well-loved and much respected educator, Mrs Chua-Lim Yen Ching is best known for her role in conceptualising NorthLight School to admit students with difficulties handling the mainstream academic curriculum. During her stint, she touched the lives of many students and touched the hearts of many Singaporeans,” said Mr Chee Hong Tat, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry & Ministry of Education.
Students from NUS Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) will be able to explore social entrepreneurship with the newly launched NUS FASS Social Incubator Programme (SIP). Aimed to provide FASS students with the opportunity to co-develop social advancement and social entrepreneurship programmes, participants will take the lead in running their own social enterprise projects, with supervision and advice from the faculty.
It is a great year for NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) as it celebrates its 90th Anniversary. The Faculty received the Top Achievement Award (Faculty with 1,000 or more graduands category) in the Commencement Class Giving 2019 campaign for attaining the highest participation rate. FASS 2019 graduands, Ms Sabrina Meah and Ms Losheini Ravindran, also clinched the top Class Champions Awards. The Commencement Class Giving is an important tradition that instills the spirit of giving in our students to give back.
On 3 April 2019, Mr Bilahari Kausikan discussed Singapore’s future foreign policy challenges as well as the nation’s best path forward at his fifth and final FASS90 Political Science Lecture on the Practice of Foreign Affairs.
Mr Bilahari Kausikan spoke at length about how US-China relations today affect the current global and regional political order on 20 March 2019 at his fourth FASS90 Political Science Lecture on the Practice of Foreign Affairs. He was keen to emphasise that despite some similarities, Sino-American relations today are fundamentally different from those between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. “The post-Cold War (world) is complex, not binary,” he stated.
Alumni from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) raised close to S$550,000 for a new bursary fund to support undergraduates who need financial assistance. A charity golf tournament was held earlier today to raise funds through the sale of golf flights and donations.
Bilahari Kausikan (Arts & Social Sciences ’76) discussed the Association of South-East Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) historical and current role at his third instalment of the Practice of Foreign Policy Lecture Series at NUS on 13 March 2019.
On 20 February 2019, Mr Bilahari Kausikan (Arts and Social Sciences ’76) presented the complex and sometimes tense bilateral relations Singapore has with Malaysia and Indonesia, while concisely describing the importance of understanding Singapore’s rather different relationship with each. Kausikan was candid when describing Singapore’s sovereignty, “The governments of our neighbours deal with Singapore as a sovereign nation because we have developed capabilities,” he said.