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.

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Daniel Goh, Assistant Professor from the Sociology Department at the National University of Singapore, has voiced insights regarding Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s appeal on Singaporeans to be big-hearted towards one another and to foreigners. The Prime Minister set the moral tone of the national conversation by taping into notions of social cohesion, social capital […]