Help pick the winners of the Viewers’ Choice Award for the Singapore Research Nexus’ Second Singapore on Screen Student Film Contest. View the shortlisted entries, then vote for your favorite using this link. Voting lasts for one week from 12pm Thursday, February 27th to 12pm Thursday, March 6th. The winning entries and runners up will […]

Recently, Professor Michael Sherraden from the Department of Social Work at the National University of Singapore, delivered a talk about asset building innovation in Singapore. He pointed out that many Singaporeans with less income can still have a flat because of the CPF scheme. If you are interested in the topic, more details can be found below:

Over the past years, people have became more and more curious about the role of local culture. Professor Wang Gungwu, the Chair of the East Asia Institute at the National University of Singapore pointed out that the significance of local heritage should be connected with the civilisational process. More information about the heritage issues can be found below:  

Historically, there is a perennial debate surrounding the causes of poverty: individual motivation or social factors? A/P Irene Ng from the Department of Social Work at the National University of Singapore, has found that Singaporeans are more likely to attribute poverty to societal factors compared to survey respondents in Britain and other countries. “Helping the […]

Between 16-17 January 2014, the SRN was delighted to welcome delegates from many parts of the world to the International Conference on “State Policy and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia“. The two-day conference was co-hosted by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the International Institute of Asian Studies. […]

The Anthology of Chinese Dialect Nursery Rhymes in Singapore was released last month, and is a rich collection of 50 songs in 5 dialects: Cantonese, Hokkien, Hainanese, Teochew and Hakka. A/P Lee Cheuk Yin from the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore worked with Dr Kang Ger Wen to collect the dialect nursery […]

Recently, A/P  Peter Borschberg from the Department of History, National University of Singapore, supplied an introduction and detailed notes about the book The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques De Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th-and 17th-century Southeast Asia. If you are interested in the topic, more details can be found below: