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The COVID-19 pandemic had forced many activities, traditionally held in large groups and in-person, to be adapted into online forms. ‘Cyber Dharma: Celebrating E-Vesak in Singapore’ (CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, 2023) by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History & Asia Research Institute) explores how Buddhist organisations in Singapore have adapted mobility […]
An Op-Ed by Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng of NUS Japanese Studies in Lianhe Zaobao (11 June 2023).
Singapore’s racial classification system — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Others (CMIO) scheme — is a key policy in maintaining racial harmony among the country’s diverse multiracial population. Each racial category is associated with traits defined by the state’s racial ideology, a prominent state-defined trait being the mother tongue associated with the three major racial […]
Head of NUS Chinese Studies Professor Ong Chang Woei comments on songs in Chinese.
Dr Serina Rahman (NUS Southeast Asian Studies) discusses the negative impact adverse climate and environmental conditions have on societies, and the complex relationships that sometimes make accountability more difficult to establish.
The Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has awarded the Edwin Thumboo Prize 2023 to three pre-university students for their excellent literary work. Named after one of Singapore’s most prominent poets and scholars, the Edwin Thumboo Prize, aims to promote excellence […]
On June 10th, 1963, the Equal Pay Act was passed in the US, aiming to abolish wage disparity based on gender. Traditionally, researchers have been using the unadjusted median gender pay gap to compare the median pay of working women relative to that of men. However, this measure may not accurately reflect gender discrimination because […]
An Asian version of data journalism?: Uncovering “Asian values” in data stories produced across Asia
Then-Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew famously stated in an address to the General Assembly of the International Press Institute on 9 June 1971: “freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government”. […]
Is every school a good school? Parents in Singapore do not seem to believe that, claim Dr Eik Swee (University of Melbourne), Mr Cameron Kheng (Nanyang Technological University), and Associate Professor Vincent Chua (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) in their commentary ‘‘Kiasu’ parents have an unhealthy obsession with ‘top schools’ at P1 registration exercise’ (Straits Times, […]
Under the Study Trips for Engagement and EnRichment (STEER) programme, a group of students from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, College of Design and Engineering, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences embarked on a two-week journey to India, visiting Kerala, Lamagoan – a town near Darjeeling – and Kolkata.