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How does economics drive contestants in the MediaCorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge, an annual car challenge in which over 400 individuals slug it out for a chance to win a Subaru? In ‘How long would you hold on for a car?’, Senior Lecturer Eric Fesselmeyer and A/P Serene Tan (Dept. of Economics) used economics to explain how hard people …
The Picture Singapore 2015 Exhibit runs from 2 Nov-2 Dec. Visit ArtsBuzz Gallery at NUS Central Library to see the winning entries in person! The winning stories from SRN’s NUS 110 Word Competition are on display as well.
Here are the 10 winners of the 2nd annual Singapore Research Nexus Picture Singapore photography competition! The theme for this year is Change & Continuity. You can view all the entries here.
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 build a repository of photographs of Singapore. We are currently accepting applications from …
Despite having drawn large crowds to its rallies and attracted much support on social media, the Opposition did not perform as well as it had been expected to in this year’s General Election, taking many by surprise and prompting much post-election analyses. In a commentary for Lianhe Zaobao, Associate Professor Ong Chang Woei (Department of …
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Professor Bao Zhiming of the Department of English Language and Literature has published a new book titled The Making of Singapore English: System, Transfer and Filter, which charts the history of Singapore English and explores the linguistic, historical, and social factors that have influenced the variety as it is spoken today. Singapore English is a focal …
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Slides from the September 2015 Research Visibility Workshop are available here.
The General Election 2015 saw the People’s Action Party (PAP) securing close to 70% of the total votes cast and 82 out of 89 seats in the Parliament, reversing its relatively poor electoral performance in 2011. On the other hand, not only did the Opposition as a whole fare more poorly, but the main opposition …
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a multilateral free-trade agreement currently being negotiated among 12 countries including Singapore. But the ministers failed to conclude the negotiations last month. Why? The only stumbling block is intellectual property (IP) rights. The US is pushing new rules that it claims will protect and promote US exports of IP-intensive products and services throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In ‘TPP raised …
Out of four factors, namely race, religion, age and class, that can matter in any election in Singapore, only age and class will likely be of consequence in the upcoming General Election, according to Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser (Department of Sociology). In an article titled “Age, Class and the General Election”, Associate Professor Tan …