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Youth Day takes place on the first Sunday of July every year in Singapore. For modern teenagers, online entertainment is almost an indispensable component of life. However, almost one in ten youth gamers develop real-world problems due to gaming. While excessive gaming that hinders daily activities constitutes gaming disorder (GD), clinical understanding of GD is …
Adolescents’ and Parents’ Perspectives: A Gaming Disorder Intervention in Singapore Read More »
Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) was founded on 1 July 2002. A statutory board under the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, NEA is responsible for maintaining Singapore’s cleanliness and public health and combating pollution. One of the main goals of sustainability education is to provide students with the training that could help them …
The Foo Hai Ch’an Monastery’s gift of S$1,125,000 will be used to award scholarships to deserving FASS graduate research candidates who focus on Buddhist Studies. Each scholarship will be tenable for up to two years for Master’s candidates and up to four years for PhD candidates.
Climate change causes the recession and collapse of high mountain glaciers, posing compounding risks to downstream hydropower systems.
The Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) was signed on 29 June 2005. It eased the flow of goods, services and investments between Singapore and India. As Indian immigrants flowed into Singapore, Singaporeans resisted the changing cultural dynamics and increase in job competition. Some even left spiteful social media comments to air their displeasure. Such incidences …
On 15 June 2022, Associate Professor Elaine Ho (NUS Geography and Asia Research Institute) was featured on Channel NewsAsia (CNA) in ‘Innovating for the Future – S1E7: Ageing’. In recent years, Singapore has seen a gradual shift towards ageing in place. Long-term care for the elderly is crucial but often ignored in this transition. A/P …
“Online harm is an issue of our time, and society is better off when we can all see and play our part in shaping it.”—Dr Natalie Pang, Deputy Head of NUS Communications and New Media.
On 27 June 2020, the Society for the Promotion of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Research & Knowledge (SPARK) organized an online session with Mr Albert Lee (http://www.spark.org.sg/meetings). Mr Lee represents a social enterprise that helps people with disabilities reach their life potential through obtaining gainful employment and independence. During the session, Mr Lee spoke about his …
Loving thy work: developing a measure of work passion Read More »
Assoc Prof Goh will be joining the renown National Humanities Centre’s intellectual community as he pursues work on his project, Living On After Failure.
Presidential Young Professor Sayaka Chatani has a lifelong passion in understanding why people fight, in the hope of bringing peace to the world.