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Alumni couples and donors raise more than S$357,000 for financially-challenged NUS students.
Since 2020, countries all over the world have struggled to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. As to be expected, “successful” containment of the spread of the viral infection should generate electoral support for the incumbent government, as in the case of South Korea in April 2020. However, the relative success in infection containment within Singapore resulted […]
NUS undergrads crowned national champions of Shell Singapore’s ‘Imagine the Future Scenarios’ competition.
Photo: ‘Migrant domestic workers are often overworked resulting in caregiver burden’ by Kua Chee Siong from The Straits Times In aging societies like Singapore, eldercare has begun to expand beyond an elderly person’s immediate family, to involve live-in foreign domestic workers who are tasked to care for their charges. This new dimension of caregiving relations […]
Prof Chew who retired in 2022 looks back on his academic career and tells us how he developed an interest in economic models of decision-making.
Photo: istock/Kagenmi In ‘Singapore’s Relationship with China’ (Asia Rising podcast episode 198, 26 January 2023) Associate Professor Ian Chong (NUS Political Science) discusses Singapore’s complex position on China, as well as how its relationship with Taiwan possibly complicates its relationship with China. A/P Chong first sketches Singapore’s position as a multi-ethnic society. The Singapore state […]
During NUS SAVE’s inaugural Green Action Week, over 140 NUS students discovered different fun and fulfilling ways to incorporate climate-conscious behaviours into their day-to-day lives.
Why undergraduate Joan Lim, 20, made the radical choice to study both Philosophy and Life Science, and how she is never too busy to learn something new.
Alumna Loong Yi Xin (NUS Social Work, ’22) knew from an early age that she wanted to be a catalyst to instill change in others, and enrolled in Nanyang Polytechnic’s Social Work diploma course after her ‘O’ Levels.
Associate Professor Timothy Barnard (NUS History) considers the changing popular imagination of Singapore’s colonial founder, Stamford Raffles, from his relative obscurity post-death to the unrivalled heights that he now occupies in ‘Commemorating Raffles: The creation of an imperial icon in colonial Singapore’ (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2019). A/P Barnard contextualises Raffles within the backdrop […]