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In “Tax incentives for foreign investors: How effective?” (Business Times, February 2023), Distinguished Professor Ivan Png (NUS Business, Economics, and Information Systems and Analytics) questions the cost-effectiveness of tax incentives to promote inbound investments and technological transfers. The incentive schemes he names are the Pioneer Certificate Incentive, and the Development and Expansion Incentive. Prof Png …
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Since 2020, countries all over the world have struggled to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. As to be expected, “successful” containment of the spread of the viral infection should generate electoral support for the incumbent government, as in the case of South Korea in April 2020. However, the relative success in infection containment within Singapore resulted …
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Photo: ‘Migrant domestic workers are often overworked resulting in caregiver burden’ by Kua Chee Siong from The Straits Times In aging societies like Singapore, eldercare has begun to expand beyond an elderly person’s immediate family, to involve live-in foreign domestic workers who are tasked to care for their charges. This new dimension of caregiving relations …
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In ‘Singapore’s Relationship with China’ (Asia Rising podcast episode 198, 26 January 2023) Associate Professor Ian Chong (NUS Political Science) discusses Singapore’s complex position on China, as well as how its relationship with Taiwan possibly complicates its relationship with China. A/P Chong first sketches Singapore’s position as a multi-ethnic society. The Singapore state also straddles …
Associate Professor Timothy Barnard (NUS History) considers the changing popular imagination of Singapore’s colonial founder, Stamford Raffles, from his relative obscurity post-death to the unrivalled heights that he now occupies in ‘Commemorating Raffles: The creation of an imperial icon in colonial Singapore’ (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2019). A/P Barnard contextualises Raffles within the backdrop …
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The first infection of COVID-19 in Singapore was reported on 4 February, 2020. However, scientific knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic is still limited, particularly on how the social attributes (population, ethnicity composition, average income, social cohesiveness etc.) and human-made environment (roads, buildings etc.) of a neighbourhood contribute to epidemiological risk. ‘A Socio-Ecological Perspective on …
In February 2021, the Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Health, and the Housing & Development Board of Singapore jointly launched the new Community Care Apartments catered to seniors who want to live independently and prepare for their future care needs. In the Asian context, seniors living alone are often perceived to be more vulnerable …
The Housing Development Board (HDB) was set up on 1 February 1960. Until recently, the planning process of HDB flats has been largely led by the state, with little participation by private residents. However, participatory planning advocates argue that participation in local neighbourhoods enhances social cohesion and brings many other benefits. In ‘Participatory Design to …
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The Worlds of Southeast Asian Chinese Literature Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature (special issue) Editors: Cheow Thia Chan and Carlos Rojas Co-edited by Assistant Professor Cheow Thia Chan (NUS Department of Chinese Studies), and Professor Carlos Rojas (Duke University), this special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature developed from two spring 2021 workshops titled …
Associate Professor Irene Ng and Associate Professor Hyekyung Choo (both NUS Department of Social Work) consider the range of factors that can affect educational attainment in ‘Parental education and youth educational aspiration in Singapore: a path analysis in institutional and psychological context’ (Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020). A/P Ng and A/P Choo identify the …