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New Publication: Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste by Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen
Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen, Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste, New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2019 Although they were a tiny minority in the most backward of European colonies, the ethnic Chinese played a critical role in the development of Portuguese Timor and the making of modern […]
Learning more about ‘protectors’ of sultans
Tuesday, 20 August 2019, Home, The Straits Times by Melody Zaccheus, Heritage and Community Correspondent A two-year-long project, led by Dr Mohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid, seeks to uncover the stories and ancient techniques of Bugis warriors whose role was to serve, advise and protect the Malay rulers.
New Publication: Hard at Work: Life in Singapore by Gerard Sasges and Ng Shi Wen (Eds.)
Sasges, Gerard and Ng Shi Wen (eds.), Hard at Work: Life in Singapore, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly wide range of experiences. Hard at Work (2019) takes readers into the day-to-day work experiences of more than fifty working people in […]
NUS NEWS Education – Yeo Tze Yang: Award-winning artist with a heart for SE Asia
By NUS Office of Corporate Relations, Friday 12 July 2019 for NUS News What is an artist to do? Go to art school to perfect his craft, or to a university to enhance his substance? Graduating NUS Southeast Asian Studies student Yeo Tze Yang chose the latter. After spending six years of his education in […]
NUS NEWS Research – Prof John Miksic: Unearthing Singapore’s forgotten treasures
By NUS Office of Corporate Relations, Friday 21 June 2019 for NUS News Professor John Miksic’s love of archaeology began as a small boy. Growing up on a farm in the United States, his grandfather would often find arrowheads from the Native American Iroquois that used to live there. These artefacts from a different time […]
Javanese Gamelan for Beginners Workshop
The NUS Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble will be conducting a Javanese Gamelan for Beginners Workshop on 20 July 2019. Limited places available. Please email to SingaNglaras@gmail.com to register.