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Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia reveals how Buddhist networks and ideas have been mobilised for soft power, peacebuilding and geopolitics.
Recently selected as a 2026 AFR Top100 Future Leader and featured on the cover of the Australian Financial Review Graduate Guide, Ziyan spent a semester in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2023. He attributes his now well-developed interests in international engagement and policy to his experience studying in Singapore and at NUS.
The awards, held on 1 April, honoured three distinguished alumni whose careers have shaped the arts, diplomacy and communities: Ms Lim Hai Yen (English Language and Chinese Studies ’92), Mr Ashok Mirpuri (Political Science Hons ’84), and Ms Ang Bee Lian (Social Work ’77). Though their careers have unfolded in very different arenas, they share a common thread: a commitment to serving society and shaping the world around them.
From Tanah Abang, Southeast Asia’s largest textile market in Jakarta, Indonesia, to the Geylang Serai market in Singapore, markets have always been more than just centres of trade. People of all backgrounds come together at marketplaces and learn the subtleties of their respective cultures through cross-cultural interactions while appreciating each other’s differences and commonalities. For […]
Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia (Bloomsbury, 2026), edited by Associate Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History), explores a question that rarely appears in mainstream discussions of international relations: what role does religion play in diplomacy? The volume shows that Buddhism has long functioned as an informal yet powerful diplomatic language across Asia, shaping […]
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Sureshkumar Muthukumaran (NUS History), Associate Professor Benjamin Schupmann (NUS Political Science), Assistant Professor Bei Hu (NUS Chinese Studies), Assistant Professor Ting Hui Lau (NUS Sociology and Anthropology), and Assistant Professor Jennifer Yip (NUS History), for winning the FASS 2025 Award for Excellent Researcher (awarded to Assoc Profs Muthukumaran and Schupmann), and […]
The milestone 30th NUS Geography Challenge brought together close to 500 students from more than 120 secondary schools across Singapore – the largest participation to date – to examine this year’s theme, “City For Tomorrow: Shaping Our Liveable Future.”
The project “Internship Participation and Student Outcomes in Singapore”, supported by Singapore’s Ministry of Education Tertiary Research Fund (TRF) from 2024 to 2026 and led by Professor Jessica Pan, with co-investigators Associate Professor Liu Haoming and Associate Professor Kelvin Seah (NUS Economics), seeks to understand how internships shape students’ educational experiences and career pathways in […]
From the implementation of contact tracing technologies to media campaigns, such as comedic musical skits to address concerns about vaccine safety for older individuals, the Singapore government undertook extensive measures to control the spread of COVID-19. Despite these initiatives, online concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy found an audience, leading to the rise of an […]
Dikir barat activist and outstanding youth award recipient calls for creative courage to try
About Muhammad Ilyia Kamsani postgraduate student at NUS Malay Studies.