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The scholarship was established through a S$300,000 gift from Lembaga Biasiswa Kenangan Maulud, LBKM (Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday Memorial Scholarship Fund Board).
‘Finding the right-size home in your silver years’ (The Straits Times, September 2022) features Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng (NUS Japanese Studies), Associate Professor Feng Qiushi (NUS Sociology and Anthropology), and their research on Singaporeans preparing for retirement. In a 2015 study of HDB’s studio apartments, A/P Thang observed that some Singaporeans were selling their …
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The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. In 2018, the share of the population aged 65 years and older in Singapore matched that of those younger than 15 years, giving rise to the term ‘Silver Tsunami’, referring to the phenomenon of a rapidly ageing population. In conjunction with this, …
At RunNUS 2022, over 1,200 participants banded together to cover a total distance of 13,000 km for a good cause.
The Qufu International Confucius Culture Festival is held every year between September 26th and October 10th in Qufu City, the hometown of Confucius. The Nanyang Confucian Association (NCA) was founded in Singapore in 1914 in response to a nationalistic call in China seeking to enshrine Confucianism as a state religion. The term nanyang, meaning the south sea, …
To engender greater innovation on the connectivity front, universities should seek to be a trusted platform for talent from all over the world to work together, learn from each other and create new ideas, said Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing at the inaugural session of the NUS Distinguished Speaker Series on 26 September.
Participants can find out about trending topics related to the future economies and NUS’ exciting suite of master’s programmes at the virtual NUS Postgraduate by Coursework Fair 2022.
Ganesh Chaturthi is an annual Hindu festival usually falling during the months of August or September. It commemorates the birthday of Lord Ganesh, who was believed to be born around noon. Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the many Hindu festivals celebrated around the world. In Singapore, we are more familiar with Taipusam, which is celebrated …
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On 25 September, 2015, the Singapore Ministry of Education ordered all primary and secondary schools to close for one day due to the heavy haze. While many perceive burning at coal-fired power plants to be a major cause of air pollution, the reverse could also be true: air pollution drives up power consumption. In ‘Local …
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Closer Neighbours are Better than Distant Relatives
Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng from NUS Japanese Studies shares how her experience and that of her friends’, having lived in Japan and Singapore, has led her to appreciate the value of having a good neighbourhood.