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Temenggong and NUS team up for first Mid-Autumn Festival gathering to promote cross-cultural exchange, as reported in Lianhe Zaobao.
International Literacy Day takes place on September 8 every year to raise awareness and concern for literacy problems that exist within our own local communities as well as globally. We are all digital citizens. With the influx of information being shared online, digital platforms have become an extension of the physical social space we occupy …
Dr Hong Renyi (NUS Communications and New Media) talks about the relevance of passion in his new monograph, Passionate Work, positioning it as an effect that enables workers to endure the precarious and stressful conditions of contemporary work culture.
A story about what the artefacts unearthed on Fort Canning by Emeritus Professor John Miksic (NUS Southeast Asian Studies) and alumna Associate Professor Goh Geok Yian (NUS Southeast Asian Studies, ’95), who is Director of the History Major Program at Nanyang Technological University, tell us about Singapore’s history.
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s Assistant Professor Kung Chien-Wen (NUS Department of History) published Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s in March 2022 with Cornell University Press, as part of the ‘Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’ series by Columbia University. The book …
Professor Wang Gungwu and two FASS alumni – Yeow Kai Chai and Wong Koi Tet – won in three separate categories, and Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo was presented with the SBC Achievement Award at the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize ceremony last week.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) that we are familiar with today is the product of a merger between two predecessor tertiary education institutions. Nanyang University, which was Singapore’s only private university that employed Chinese as a medium of instruction, was first set up with the purpose of providing tertiary education to Chinese-educated students in …
Last Convocation of Nanyang University 16 August 1980 Read More »
Congratulations to Professor Wang Gungwu (NUS History), Chairman of the NUS East Asian Institute and University Professor who won the Singapore Literature Prize on August 25, 2022! Home Is Where We Are (NUS Press, 2020), the second part of Prof Wang’s memoirs, topped the English creative non-fiction category. Prof Wang is one of the two …
Wang Gungwu, Suratman Markasan, both 91, are Singapore Literature Prize’s oldest winners Read More »
Internet trolls are often deemed malicious users of online platforms who upset people with the content they make public. With multiple users sharing similar opinions, trolling groups have become more common on social media. Alongside these supposedly mean-spirited groups, prosocial groups also exist that generally promote more positive and well-meaning messages. However, is it fair …
How Different are Internet Trolls and Prosocial Groups on Facebook? Read More »

Weathering challenges ahead: Education on security issues is key
In ‘Weathering challenges ahead: Education on security issues is key’ (The Straits Times, August, 2022), Associate Professor Bilveer Singh (NUS Political Science) argues that security issues have become one of Singapore’s key priorities in light of surging inflation around the world. Southeast Asia is facing growing geopolitical uncertainties. Regional powers like China and India have …
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