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‘Introduce individual carbon scorecard with incentives to keep emissions low’ (Straits Times, March 2022) reports that on 18 February 2022, the government announced that as part of this year’s Budget, the carbon tax rate in Singapore would increase from the current S$5 per tonne of emissions to between S$50 and S$80 by 2030, with emissions […]
In commemoration of World Social Work Day, the SSR Conference 2022 spotlights the struggles and resilience of vulnerable groups and social service workers alike as we journey towards the endemic stage of COVID-19.
In the 18 March 2022 seminar titled Interconnected Worlds of Electronics Global Production After the Pandemic: Current Trajectories and Future Agendas, Prof Henry Yeung (Distinguished Professor, NUS Geography and Co-Director of the Global Production Networks Centre) discussed the co-evolutionary trajectories of electronics global production networks up to the late 2010s, and their most significant implications for the global economy in the post-pandemic, post-Trump 2020s.
In January 2020, Changi Airport saw a record of 5,950,000 passengers, a 5.2 percent year-on-year increase, even as the first imported cases of COVID-19 were beginning to appear. At that period of time, people were still able to enjoy nearly uninhibited access to Singapore. With the conventional wisdom at that time being to manage, and […]
Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, and also NUS Philosophy alumnus (1971), Prof Kishore Mahbubani laments the absence of global peacemakers now – “when we need them more than ever”.
Prevalent historical narratives of Singapore have largely ignored the role of Indian pioneers such as Narayana Pillai, who was one of the earliest Indian businessmen to come to the island. Born on 21 March 1879, Pillai was also an interpreter and clerk who accompanied Raffles when he first landed in Singapore. Since pre-colonial times, Indian […]
Elections to public offices in Malaysia occur at both the state and the federal level. At the state level, elections employ a first-past-the-post system where candidates compete in single-member constituencies to be elected to the state legislative assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) secured a two-thirds majority of 40 out of 56 contested seats in the Johor […]
March 21 was declared to be World Poetry Day by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999, and has been celebrated annually ever since. Poetry has been practiced throughout history, and is present in every culture and on every continent of the planet. World Poetry Day thus celebrates one of humanity’s most […]
NUS Arts Festival 2022: Shades of Light(ness) will run from 18 to 27 March, involving over 400 student artists, professional arts practitioners, leading researchers and thought leaders in NUS.
Contrary to the contemporary perception that social movements in Singapore have been relegated to the margins of mainstream discourse on the country’s political and social issues, the history of Singapore’s nation-building project has close ties with the country’s history of social movements and societal activism. We observe this in the struggle for self-determination that […]