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Column on Suria News Online by Dr Serina Rahman, Lecturer from NUS Southeast Asian Studies.
‘Archiving the Underclasses: Knowledge, Law, and Everyday Agency in Modern Southeast Asia’ is a research project funded from 2022 to 2025 by the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 and hosted by the NUS Asia Research Institute (ARI). The project brings together a diverse team of scholars led by Associate Professor Maitrii …
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FASS paid tribute on 15 May 2024 to four eminent alumni for their outstanding contributions towards nation-building, growth of the university, the promotion of the arts and social sciences, and impact in the private sector.
Misinformation has been prolific in the past few years, disseminated through various online mediums like social media and messaging platforms. Authorities have begun to scrutinise messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat, in an effort to prevent the further spread of misleading content. There are several factors influencing the spread of misinformation on messaging apps. …
Engaging panel discussions saw industry experts in adult education weigh in on topics such as the importance of lifelong learning for continued competence and relevance in an increasingly complex and constantly changing world.
Column on Suria News Online by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, Senior Lecturer from NUS Malay Studies.
As we mark Labour Day on 1st May, we are reminded of the migrant workers whose labour Singapore is dependent on. In their chapter ‘Urban Liveability and Low-wage Migrants in Pandemic Times’ in Migrant Workers in Singapore: Lives and Labour in a Transient Migration Regime (World Scientific, 2022), Professor Tim Bunnell (NUS Geography and Asia …
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As they studied the spatial, social and technological dimensions of home-based work in Singapore, an interdisciplinary team of NUS researchers put together several home models for the “Visualising Home-based Work” exhibition, which shows how the home has been adapted to facilitate flexible work arrangements.
The annual award, named after eminent Japanese physical geographer and climatologist Masatoshi Yoshino, is presented to mid-career or senior geographers who have achieved outstanding results in climatology in the following sub-fields of geographical climatology or climate geography: microclimatology; historical climatology; disaster climatology; climate change; and climatology related to human activities, monsoons, or geoecology.
The Speak Good English campaign, launched on 29 April 2000 by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, aimed to improve the English-speaking proficiencies of Singaporeans. This was due to a growing concern about the prevalence of Colloquial Singapore English (CSE), commonly known as ‘Singlish’, a variant of English that the government once saw as grammatically incorrect. …