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By protecting a forest instead of cutting it down for conversion into an oil palm plantation, for example, the developer of the land can raise revenue through the sale of carbon credits.
NUS graduates continue to be highly in demand, and command competitive salaries, according to findings from the Joint Autonomous Universities Graduate Employment Survey 2022.
Alumni couples and donors raise more than S$357,000 for financially-challenged NUS students.
“The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” These words, spoken by 38th U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, […]
In “Tax incentives for foreign investors: How effective?” (Business Times, February 2023), Distinguished Professor Ivan Png (NUS Business, Economics, and Information Systems and Analytics) questions the cost-effectiveness of tax incentives to promote inbound investments and technological transfers. The incentive schemes he names are the Pioneer Certificate Incentive, and the Development and Expansion Incentive. Prof Png […]
Organised by the NUS Centre for Future-ready Graduates (CFG), the NUS Career Fest 2023 shone a special spotlight on the sustainability sector with a number of targeted activities aimed at deepening students’ understanding of sustainability and sustainability-related careers.
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 […]