Observing the growing trend of outsourcing in Asia’s biomedical research and development (R&D) market, International Enterprise Singapore launched a new Singapore Biomedical R&D Consortium on 23 June 2011 to help Singapore-based companies tap into this potential. Multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) decisions of where to locate R&D are influenced by push and pull factors. Efficient supervision and […]

If you’re looking for clues to entertain children this June holiday, look no further than Dept of English Language and Literature alumnus Don Bosco’s Sherlock Hong series! The first of this four part series is The Immortal Nightingale (2015). Other than an interest in solving mysteries, Sherlock Hong and Sherlock Holmes are worlds apart. Hong […]

In the 1990s, Singapore grounded “Asian family values” of love, care, mutual respect, filial piety and commitment as its core national “Shared Values.” After two decades, the country’s population has tripled and become more globalised, yet Singapore has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. Do these family values still remain relevant for […]

Bottoms up and chug down your kopi! Inaugurated on 9 June 2016, the Singapore Coffee Festival celebrates Singapore’s unique and rich coffee heritage. Singapore’s coffee culture can be traced back to the colonial era, when coffee-shops (kopi tiam in Hokkien) were an indispensable part of the lives of most working adults. Providing an important space […]

What if a stranger, an asylum seeker, turned up at your doorstep? Would you let him enter? Alumna Kirsten Tan (Dept of English Language and Literature) deals with these questions in her award winning film, Dahdi (2014). The film is inspired by the Maritime and Port Authority’s controversial decision to deny a boat of Rohingya […]

Singapore acknowledges the importance of the natural environment to economic performance and livability, but the true obstacle lies in assessing the country’s environmental assets at a national level. Awarded with a $4.8 million project over three years, NUS Associate Professor of Geography Daniel Friess will be leading the national-scale assessment of Singapore’s natural capital, along […]

What was Singapore Chinese society like in the post-war years of 1945-1965?   As of 2013, around 74.2% of Singapore’s population is comprised of ethnic Chinese, demonstrative of how impactful the Chinese population has been in the shaping of Singapore as we see it today. In fact, the Chinese Heritage Centre was established on 17 […]

A sizeable number of families with children below 15 years of age live in public rental flats in Singapore, but how exactly does housing affect families and the establishment of a home? An ongoing study under the Social Service Research Centre (SSR) at NUS attempts to understand how families define “home,” while examining the obstacles […]

There are a growing number of studies focused on Muslim migrants in Singapore, but how exactly are Malay-Muslim migrants out of Singapore adapting to new communities overseas? Associate Professor Khairudin Aljunied from the NUS Department of Malay Studies will be leading research on how first-generation Muslim immigrants adapt in Western environments through a case study […]

Family and population continue to be a hot topic for discussion in Singapore, with much of the country’s nation-building strategies revolving around related public policies. As part of the ISA Joint RC06 (Family) and RC41 (Population) Conference held from 17 to 19 May hosted by the NUS Centre for Family and Population Research – NUS […]