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Associate Professor Shirlena Huang and Dr Kamalini Ramdas (both from NUS Geography) explain how Singapore has become the beacon, within an otherwise Anglo-American dominated Southeast Asia, in ‘Generative spaces of gender and feminist geography in Singapore: entanglements of the personal and political’ (A Journal of Feminist Geography, 2019). Feminist geography, standing apart from the more …
Speaking at a recent talk co-organised by Yale-NUS College and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, Professor Wang Gungwu (NUS History) gave a lecture titled “What Does it Mean to be Ethnically Chinese in Singapore?”. In attempting to answer this question, Professor Wang explores the historical context of Singapore’s relationship with China, the significance of the …
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The Mrs Lee Choon Guan Endowed Research Fund (LCG ERF) was launched officially on 10 April 2017. It is the first endowment made in Singapore to establish a research fund specifically for practice research in social work that would impact the development and delivery of social services. The LCG ERF is one of the philanthropic …
The Singapore government started the Circuit Breaker on 7th April, 2020, which significantly disrupted many businesses’ daily operations. But before a sudden surge of COVID-19 cases in April, the country experienced a relatively lengthy period during which daily activities were not severely affected by the virus. Businesses were still open and attempting to attract …
The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption with lockdowns and work from home arrangements leading to a surge in online meetings, online education, and online shopping. However, digitalisation has by no means been a straightforward process, with gaps emerging in many societies, including even in digitally connected countries such as Singapore, which underwent a …
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On 6 April 2018, the Dragon playground at Toa Payoh was featured during the 15th edition of the Singapore Heritage Festival. In ‘Beyond child’s play: heritage as process in Singapore’s playgrounds’ (International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020), Associate Professor Chang Tou Chuang (NUS Department of Geography) and Mr Osten Mah Bang Ping (University of Cambridge …
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Retail giant Mustafa, which runs the well-known budget mall Mustafa Centre in Singapore, has recently announced plans to set up shop in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. In ‘Commentary: When shopping giant Mustafa meets retail paradise Johor Bahru’ (Channel NewsAsia, March 2023), Dr Serina Rahman (NUS Southeast Asian Studies and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute) contemplates how such an …
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Speaking at the Wee Cho Yaw Business Forum organised by the NUS Global Asia Institute, Associate Professor Alberto Salvo (NUS Economics, Global Asia Institute, and Sustainable and Green Finance Institute) proposes a carbon scorecard to supplement efforts at sustainability. Comments by the panellists at the forum were reported in ‘Carbon scorecards for individuals, ESG and supply …
The Symposium on In-Work Poverty and the Challenges of Getting By Among the Young was held on 29 March 2023, hosted by the NUS Social Service Research Centre (SSR). ‘Less-Educated Young Workers in Lower-Wage Jobs Face Job Mobility and Training Challenges: NUS Study’ (Straits Times, March 2023) covers some of the research results relating to …
World Autism Awareness Day, which aims to recognise the rights and needs of people with autism, is marked every April 2nd. Adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are at high risk for anxiety difficulties and disorders. While clinic-based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been proven effective for alleviating ASD patients’ anxiety, the treatment’s effect has …