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Mother’s Day is celebrated on 14 May in 2023. Studies have shown that among the financially disadvantaged, women are more vulnerable to a public health emergency, and those with children suffered more severe mental health issues during COVID-19 lockdowns. Whether poor mothers in Singapore have encountered similar difficult times during the pandemic is an important …
Support for the disadvantaged and vulnerable segments of Singaporean society has long been an issue of great importance. In response to recent parliamentary debates on this issue, Associate Professor Irene Y H Ng (NUS Social Work & Social Service Research Centre (SSR)), Senior Lecturer Dr Ong Ee Cheng (NUS Economics, SSR), and their co-author Michael …
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The Primary 1 (P1) registration exercise in Singapore has been the subject of much debate in recent years, with concerns that the current mechanisms reinforce pre-existing inequalities in society. In ‘Primary 1 Registration: Where alumni privilege and distance rules can accelerate inequality’ (The Straits Times, April 2023), Associate Professor Vincent Chua (NUS Sociology and Anthropology) …
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 was passed by the Singapore Parliament on 8 May 2019, as part of the nation’s efforts to combat online falsehoods. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WhatsApp has played a critical role in risk communication because of its extremely large user group. However, this has also made it …
The incidence of seniors’ lonesome deaths in their homes going unnoticed for days and weeks in Singapore has recently received heightened news and public attention. ‘Why are S’pore’s elderly still dying alone, undiscovered for weeks?’ (The Straits Times, April 2023) references similar phenomena of lonely, old-aged deaths in the greying societies of Japan and South …
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What happens when the population of the world’s largest country shrinks drastically? Reeling in the aftershock of the COVID-19 pandemic, China is battling an urgent population crisis. Rising mortality rates are coupled with a decline in fertility rates, causing the latter to fall dismally below replacement value. In ‘INSIGHT’ (Channel NewsAsia, April 2023), Professor Jean …
Call For Applications: Student Assistant at SRN 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 https://fass.nus.edu.sg/srn/. SRN assists the FASS Research Division with event organization and repository updating. SRN has …
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The Singapore government introduced one-week government-paid paternity leave on May 1st, 2013, signalling the importance of fathers’ roles and shared responsibilities for raising children. While the state seeks to promote gender equality, some argue that its portrayal of good fatherhood actually reinforces patriarchal tendencies in Singapore. In ‘Confucian Masculinity: State Advocacy of Active Fatherhood in …
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Labour Day is an international holiday that celebrates the achievements of workers every year on 1 May. In Singapore, even before the COVID-19 pandemic kicked in, studies have shown that there have been significant inequalities between low- and higher- wage workers. Whether the pandemic has worsened the pre-existing gap is a question worth considering. In …
The Exiles is a two-part documentary by CNA Insider released in March 2023 which covers the deportations of Asian seamen from the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia following World War II, which resulted in the fragmentation of numerous families in the two countries. Part 1, ‘My Stolen Chinese Father: Victims of UK’s Racist Past’, focuses …