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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 […]
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. […]
Column on Suria News Online by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, Senior Lecturer from NUS Malay Studies.
Organised by the Department of Communications and New Media at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the bi-annual event gathered prominent professionals and creators from the media, advertising, artistic and legal fields who shared insights on how AI is transforming the media landscape.
Column on Suria News Online by Dr Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, Senior Lecturer from NUS Malay Studies.
As we prepare to mark Earth Day on the 22nd of April, we are reminded of one of the most pressing issues of our time: the climate crisis. Southeast Asia stands as a region with a rich potential for carbon sequestration, a process pivotal in mitigating the adverse effects of climate change. At the heart […]
The study – which drew from the data of the Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG-LEADS) housed by the Centre for Family and Population Research – revealed that children who show greater self-restraint and willingness to delay their gratification in their preschool years also tended to have better working memory and self-control which were linked to better academic skills and fewer behavioural and emotional problems two years later.