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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 […]
Op-Ed on CNA Online by Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian from NUS Political Science.
Director of Melrose Home at the Children’s Aid Society and FASS alumna Cindy Ng (NUS Social Work) draws from her experience piloting a debt and savings programme and research – including that led by Associate Professor Irene Ng (of NUS Social Work and NUS Social Service Research Centre) – to argue for a more considered approach to tackling poverty and alleviating the plight of low-income families, in this Op-Ed in The Straits Times.
Editorial in Lianhe Zaobao by Dr Hong Renyi from NUS Communications and New Media; Prof Jack Qiu Linchuan from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at NTU and Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology; and Dr Adam Badger, Postdoctoral Researcher from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
As the world observes International Migrants Day on 18 December, Singapore is once again reminded of its dependence on migrant labour, as well as the issues surrounding migrant workers in the city-state. Dr George B. Radics (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) reckons with the state of precarity that migrant labourers live in in Singapore, and delves […]
Column in Suria News Online by Ms Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, a PhD candidate from NUS Southeast Asian Studies.