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How are religions affected when they are practiced and cultivated in diasporic communities? Diwali, celebrated this year on 6 November, is arguably the biggest Hindu festival, both in terms of its grandeur and the number of people who celebrate it all over the world. Known in Singapore as Deepavali, preparations begin months in advance, with […]
How do you catch a tiger in Singapore? Who could imagine that over a century ago, wild tigers roamed across Singapore, once a densely-forested island. However, on 26 October 1930, the last tiger on the island was killed near the old Chua Chu Kang village. A/P Timothy P. Barnard (Department of History) and his co-researcher, […]
Existing policies that tackle homelessness must be improved – but how? Dr Neo Yu Wei, Research Fellow from the Social Service Research Centre at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Assistant Professor Ng Kok Hoe from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS tackle this question. Their findings show that […]
Why was Biopolis established? Biopolis was launched on 18 October 2003 as an integrated cluster of research facilities, which A/P Axel Gelfert (Department of Philosophy) characterizes as a milestone in the push to integrate basic and applied research ‘under the paradigm of biomedical and molecular biotechnology’. Singapore’s industrial and economic policy has long focused on […]
The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) is a unique academic resource covering the wide range of research on Singapore produced by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). It can be found at http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/srn/. SRN is currently engaged in a project to update and maintain a database of creative works such as fiction, poems, plays, […]
Dear FASS Students, The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) is a unique academic resource covering the wide range of research on Singapore produced by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). It can be found at http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/srn/. SRN is currently engaged in a project to update and maintain a database of creative works such as […]
What roles do mall developers play in shaping our urban and business landscapes? Malls seem to be sprouting up all over Asia! A/P Hendrik Meyer-Ohle (Department of Japanese Studies), in Two Asian Malls: Urban Shopping Centre Development in Singapore and Japan (2009), compared the development of two shopping malls, VivoCity launched in Singapore in October […]
How does living in an HDB Studio Apartment impact the well-being of its residents? International Day of Older Persons is celebrated annually worldwide on 1 October to recognise the contributions of older persons to society. On this day, the National Council of Social Service seeks to debunk the myths of ageing by encouraging Singaporeans to […]
What constitutes a family in Singapore? It is not uncommon for the family to be considered as the ‘building block’ of a community and nation, but what exactly is the ‘family’? In many Western and non-Western contexts, the dual-parent family continues to be viewed as the ‘normal’ and desirable family form. In Singapore, this means […]
Can lingering ghosts offer us wisdom? Or do these spirits remain in the earthly realm to wreak havoc? As the Hungry Ghost Festival comes to a close, we feature alumnus Goh Sin Tub’s (Dept. of English Language and Literature) short story, ‘Suicide Street’, from his book Mass Possession (1994). The street in ‘Suicide street’ refers […]