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The urban landscape of Southeast Asia is rapidly evolving, with cities becoming focal points of innovation, development, and imagination. As cities grow and transform, they become embodiments of visions of the future that are influenced by discourses of urban planning and historical pathways of development. But how do these sites of urban planning reflect and […]
Topping off last year’s series of activities in celebration of its 70th anniversary, NUS Chinese Studies held an academic symposium hosting well-known scholars from across the region, including those from Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia, who came to discuss their research and future plans in the study of Sinology.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]