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Watch Assistant Professor Chien-Wen Kung (NUS History) discuss his new book ????????? ???? ????????: ??????????? ?????, ?????????????, ??? ??? ?????????? ???????, 1930?-1970? at The Pod, NLB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKoPETrIPyE Get the book here: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501762215/diasporic-cold-warriors/#bookTabs=1
Here are some of the highlights from the book launch of Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s (Cornell University Press, 2022) by Assistant Professor Chien-Wen Kung (NUS History)!
The Qufu International Confucius Culture Festival is held every year between September 26th and October 10th in Qufu City, the hometown of Confucius. The Nanyang Confucian Association (NCA) was founded in Singapore in 1914 in response to a nationalistic call in China seeking to enshrine Confucianism as a state religion. The term nanyang, meaning the south sea, …
Ganesh Chaturthi is an annual Hindu festival usually falling during the months of August or September. It commemorates the birthday of Lord Ganesh, who was believed to be born around noon. Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the many Hindu festivals celebrated around the world. In Singapore, we are more familiar with Taipusam, which is celebrated …
Made in Singapore: Conceiving, Making and Using Ritual Objects in Hindu Domains Read More »
On 25 September, 2015, the Singapore Ministry of Education ordered all primary and secondary schools to close for one day due to the heavy haze. While many perceive burning at coal-fired power plants to be a major cause of air pollution, the reverse could also be true: air pollution drives up power consumption. In ‘Local …
Local Pollution as a Determinant of Residential Electricity Demand Read More »
In ‘Singapore youth: In defence of “strawberries”’ (The Straits Times, September 2022), Dr Chew Han Ei (NUS Institute of Policy Studies) and Assistant Professor Vincent Chua (NUS Department of Sociology and Anthropology) shared their preliminary findings about Singapore’s youths based on a six-year study by the NUS Institute of Policy Studies and the National Youth …
On 23 September 2019, The Straits Times published an article announcing a collaborative effort by the Housing Development Board, People’s Association, Ministry of Health, and National Environment Agency to build a vertical ‘kampung’ for the elderly. This new development will be situated in Yew Tee and is modelled after the Kampung Admiralty Project with …
Old-age dependency: is it really increasing in aging populations? Read More »
“Singapore’s only natural resource is its people.” This often-cited adage by Lee Kuan Yew encapsulates the constraints that Singapore faces as a small island-state. Indeed, to make up for its geographical disadvantages, the Singapore government pays high attention to educating and developing its people from young. However, the effectiveness of human capital development efforts is …
Asset Building Early in Life and Matched Savings Read More »
In the age of big data, there has been growing interest in how journalism can leverage data to deliver meaningful new stories. What has emerged is data journalism – the process of drawing information from datasets and writing stories and creating visualisations based on them. Singapore has not been the exception to this development: during …
International Literacy Day takes place on September 8 every year to raise awareness and concern for literacy problems that exist within our own local communities as well as globally. We are all digital citizens. With the influx of information being shared online, digital platforms have become an extension of the physical social space we occupy …