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Commentary: Is Singapore’s complaint culture helping us or hurting us?

January 12, 2024

The frequent act of complaining has been characterised as a defining trait of Singaporeans, from moaning about the incessant heat and humidity, to grumbling about rising inflation or increasing the Goods and Services Tax (GST). While complaining is commonly understood to be a negative way of speaking, there might be another side to complaining that …

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Commentary: After O-Levels, the Choice of Subjects isn’t Always Straightforward

January 11, 2024

Dr Kelvin Seah (NUS Economics) and Distinguished Prof Ivan Png (Department of Strategic & Policy, NUS Business School) consider how recent A-level cohorts have chosen their courses of their study from a range extending across the academic to the practical-oriented in their commentary for CNA Online.

Let’s Pack Sustainability into Smaller Servings this Year

January 11, 2024

Lofty green goals can be achieved when approached as tractable actions, argue Ang Hui Min (Master of Communication student at NUS Communications and New Media) and Professor Lawrence Loh (Director of the Centre for Governance and Sustainability, NUS Business School) in their Op-Ed for The Business Times.

2024: The Start of Another Surprise war?

January 9, 2024

Op-Ed in The Straits Times by Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow from the Asia Research Institute at NUS

Cooling Singapore 2.0 – Digital Urban Climate Twin

January 8, 2024

As climate change continues to drive temperatures around the globe steadily upwards, Singapore finds itself in a precarious situation. Doubly hit by greenhouse gas emissions and the urban heat island (UHI) effect, it faces a problem of high temperatures that promise to continue soaring beyond livable standards. Further increasing temperatures promise to be detrimental to …

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How Hustle Culture is Robbing our Youths of Self-Discovery

January 7, 2024

Op-Ed on CNA Online by Mr Jonathan Sim, Associate Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy and Lecturer from NUS Philosophy

Book Launch – Strangers in the Family-Gender, Patriliny & Chinese in Col Indonesia by Dr Seng Guo-Quan

January 2, 2024

Here are some of the highlights from the book launch of ‘Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia‘ by Dr Seng Guo-Quan (NUS History)! In Strangers in the Family, Dr Seng Guo-Quan provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816-1942). At …

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Placemaking in the polycrisis: The effects of irregular migration trajectories of refugees in Southeast Asia

January 2, 2024
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Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter, 2024 LKC NUS-Stanford Fellowship awardee, is visiting FASS from 1 January to 22 March 2024. He is working on ‘Placemaking in the polycrisis: The effects of irregular migration trajectories of refugees in Southeast Asia’, a research project and book that examines 1) how refugees in Malaysia experience life in situations of …

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Forest City is Awakening, with New Settlers of an Unexpected Kind

January 2, 2024

Op-Ed in The Straits Times by Dr Serina Rahman, NUS Southeast Asian Studies.

Bringing the Common Good Closer Together

January 1, 2024

Article in Lianhe Zaobao by Huang Jiaqi, an undergraduate student from NUS Chinese Studies

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