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The Straits Times reports that opposition parties are traditionally even more coy than the PAP about their new faces, but clues have emerged from walkabouts and new members appointed as office holders in Singapore. The likely new candidates are professionals and businessmen as opposed to the past, when it was a case of taking anyone who knocked on the door. With its success in […]
The US talks about rebalancing Asia; ASEAN wants a strategic balance between China and America. How will Singapore fare, as a majority Chinese society in the region, with China expected to be more assertive in the future? University Professor Wang Gungwu discusses the China-Singapore ties, Singapore’s dilemma and its need to have a realistic assessment […]
Today we mark the passing of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Here is a roundup of tributes from Singapore’s media.
Public Lecture by Professor Lily Kong on the occasion of the launch of her new book, Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities: Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia Time: 4:30-6pm, registration from 4-4:30pm Venue: The Pod, L16, National Library, 100 Victoria Street #14-01, Singapore 188064 Speaker: Prof Lily Kong, Geography Dept, Faculty of […]
Dr Kelvin Low (Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology) recently published Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China (2014, UBC Press). The book is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten. In the early twentieth […]
Thank you to all who joined us at the book launch for Dynamic Environments of Singapore at Bookhaven on 11 November, 2014. The book explores Singapore’s geographical heritage and is co-authored by faculty from Geography department, Dr. Dan Friess and Dr. Grahame Oliver. If you’d like to purchase the book, please ring Bookhaven at 66944346 to […]
In support of the national SG50 programme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s independence next year, the Department of History has introduced the NUS Singapore History Prize, the first ever prize devoted entirely to Singapore history. It will be awarded to an outstanding publication that will make a lasting impact on Singaporeans’ understanding of […]
Domestic workers in Singapore face a host of challenges ranging from homesickness, a lack of social support to exploitative employers. A group of them have recently joined the effort to create a new campaign aimed at changing perceptions and raising awareness of the plight of maids here. Conceived by researchers at NUS’s Centre for Culture-Centred […]
In what is Singapore’s first long-term study to track family resilience and social mobility, the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) at NUS has launched the “Singapore Panel Study on Social Dynamics”. This academic study will track 5000 families from year to year for at least three years to find out how families behave, what helps […]
In the recent Singapore Economic Policy Forum organised by NUS Department of Economics and the Economic Society of Singapore, A/P Tilak Abeysinghe (Department of Economics, FASS) spoke on housing prices and income inequality. He noted that when property prices soar, the income of those buying property to stay flows to property developers, owners of apartments for […]