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Photos from ‘Ageing in Place’ Roundtable

November 28, 2012

                     

Programme & Videos from SRN-hosted Symposium, “Ageing in Place”

November 22, 2012

On 9 October 2012, the SRN hosted a symposium titled “Ageing in Place,” where academic researchers studying ageing, community practitioners and advocates for the elderly contributed to the discussion on how Singapore can meet the challenge of caring the aged today and in the future. Video footage from the event is now available for viewing …

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“CPF enough for retirement if…”

November 20, 2012

In order to respond to the questions raised recently on whether CPF funds can meet retirement needs, NUS professors of economics Chia Ngee Choon and Albert Tsui proposed a simulation model using ministry wage growth data from the past ten years and listed three conditions for young Singaporeans to build an adequate nest. They stressed …

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Three win Singapore Literature Prize

November 16, 2012

In the English category, Singaporean EddieTay’s  poetry collection, The Mental Life Of Cities, took the top prize. In the Chinese category, a heavyweight novel written by Yeng Pway Ngon took the prize. In the Tamil category, Indian-born engineer Ramanathan Vairavan, took the top award. No winners were announced in the Malay category.

Lit prize to include non-fiction works

November 16, 2012

The good news that an additional prize for non-fiction titles will be included in the next Singapore Literature Prize was released at the award ceremony held on November 9th, 2012. Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Mr. Wong said: “This initiative will highlight and recognize the outstanding non-fiction works that our writers have produced, …

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Linguistic Anxiety in Singapore: Negotiating the boundaries between Standard English, Singlish, and Broken English

November 6, 2012

Creating ourselves online

October 19, 2012

A/P LIM, deputy head at the Department of Communications and New Media, FASS, attempted to explore the relationship between online spaces and social fabric. To be more specific, using social media, we strategically present a persona to our digital audience. Here, we discover the link between self-curation and self-consciousness. To see how this link works, …

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FASS Alumnae win Cultural Medallion

October 19, 2012

Conducting choirs for love Jennifer Tham graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, majoring in philosophy and sociology. In 1995, she returned to Singapore and introduced a new direction for the SYC Ensemble Singers. Under her leadership, the choir has excelled at several international choral festivals. Now, she is one of the most …

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Making S’pore a more elder-friendly place

October 11, 2012

The STRAITS TIMES reported that experts were participating in a discussion on “Aging-in-place:how prepared are we?” held at the National University of Singapore on 9 October , 2012. A/P Chia Ngee Choon claimed that the Government should allow the elderly to sublet part or all of their flats, while A/P Paulin Straughan preferred giving the elderly the option of moving …

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Inflated housing prices should ease

October 5, 2012

A/P Tilak Abeysinghe, Director of the Singapore Center for Applied and Policy Economics at the Department of Economics, NUS, has voiced insights regarding the high housing prices in Singapore. According to his survey on private and HDB property prices, actual housing prices have outpaced the fundamental trend price since mid-2006. In order to explain this phenomenon, some fundamental …

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