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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 …
Commentary: Is Singapore’s complaint culture helping us or hurting us? Read More »
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.
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.
Op-Ed in The Straits Times by Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow from the Asia Research Institute at NUS
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 …
Cooling Singapore 2.0 – Digital Urban Climate Twin Read More »
Op-Ed on CNA Online by Mr Jonathan Sim, Associate Fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy and Lecturer from NUS Philosophy
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 …
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 …
Op-Ed in The Straits Times by Dr Serina Rahman, NUS Southeast Asian Studies.
Article in Lianhe Zaobao by Huang Jiaqi, an undergraduate student from NUS Chinese Studies