The political career of Dr. James Puthucheary was marked with quiet controversy. Apart from historic accounts of his defection from the People’s Action Party to join Barisan Socialis, his detention during Operation Cold Store and subsequent exile, little is known of Dr. Puthucheary’s persona. In My Burning Hill (2012), alum Dr. Rosaly Puthucheary (Dept of […]

In the news this week, Chinese newspaper LianHe ZaoBao featured Prof. Kenneth Dean and Dr. Hue Guan Thye’s (Dept. of Chinese Studies) latest publication, Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore 1819-1911 (2017). The two-volume book represents the beginnings of an on-going effort to uncover the life of early Chinese migrants in Singapore. Inscriptions carved on the items […]

If the Hollywood stuff of movie magic and platitudinous happy endings have your nose turned up, why not opt for local film entertainment? Unlike its prodigious competitor, the local film industry decries the typical narrative of an underdog’s success and lacks sufficient funding for awesome CGI and sound effects. Instead, local films promise an “other” […]

To kickstart the new year, we feature Prof Brenda Yeoh, Dr Theodora Lam and Alice Chen’s book chapter, “Urban Dreams in an Island-Nation-City-State” from Singapore Dreaming: Managing Utopia (2016). In this season of resolution and retrospection, Prof Yeoh et al. remind us that our hopes and dreams contribute to Singapore’s cosmopolitan dream. Specifically, the authors […]

‘One Night in Bethlehem’ comes from the book, ‘Butterflies don’t cry and other plays’, by Stella Kon, playwright, novelist, short story writer and poet. Kon, alumnus of the Department of ELL, is the winner of several playwriting competitions in the early 1980s and her works are studied in local and foreign universities. She currently resides in […]

The human physical touch is irreplaceable. The Straits Times reported last week on research conducted by Associate Professor Annett Schirmer (Dept of Psychology) and her team that demonstrates that children who receive more physical touches from their mothers were more socially attuned. Over the course of two years, the team studied 39 mother-child pairs. Each […]

A chapter titled, ‘Celebrating Singapore’s Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps’ (2004) in the book ‘Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change’ by A/P Chng Huang Hoon’s (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) studies the Singapore Stamp Millennium Collection which was commissioned on 20 December 1999. Chng illuminates the messages […]

A review of Mrs Anne Wee’s (Dept of Social Work) memoir, A Tiger Remembers: The Way We Were in Singapore, was published in the Straits Times. The title alludes to Mrs Wee’s inauspicious Chinese zodiac and her 66 years of memories as a Singaporean. For the vivacious 90-year-old Wee, her first book is the result […]

‘Cardiovascular Reactivity of Singaporean Male Police Officers as a Function of Task, Ethnicity and Hostility’ authored by Dr Y P Why, former faculty at the FASS Department of Psychology, along with G.D. Bishop, H.C. Enkelmann, M.W.E. Tong, S.M. Diong, M. Khader and J. Ang, was published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology (2003). This research examined […]

Dr Edna Lim (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) analyses two local films titled ‘Counterperformance: The Heartland and Other Spaces in Eating Air and 15’. The heartlands arose out of Singapore’s urban development plans in the 1960s, which were aimed at developing public housing estates to foster social cohesion and communal living, and serve […]