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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 …
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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
Photo: istock/Wirestock On 1 January 2018, the Singapore government announced the establishment of a Singapore Bicentennial Office under the Prime Minister’s Office to commemorate 200 years of Singapore history, beginning from Raffles’ founding of Singapore. This way of remembering Singapore’s history has been contested in various ways. In ‘Stamford Raffles and the “Founding” of Singapore: …
Offered in the first semester of every academic year (AY), PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I (PH2301) delves into the ethics and politics of the great Chinese philosophers such as Confucius, Mozi, Yang Zhu, Mencius and Laozi.
On 23 December 2013, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the National Arts Council (NAC), and the Singapore Land Authority announced plans to make two walls along Rail Corridor available for street artists to develop their work. In 2014, the NAC established the Public Art Trust with funding from the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, which …
Wall dressed up: Graffiti and street art in Singapore Read More »