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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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s Assistant Professor Kung Chien-Wen (NUS Department of History) published Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s in March 2022 with Cornell University Press, as part of the ‘Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’ series by Columbia University. The book […]
The English Language Institute of Singapore was set up on 6th September 2011 by Lee Kuan Yew, who held the position of Minister Mentor at the time. The institute was set up with the objective of raising English Language standards in the country and improving the quality of English Language education in our schools. […]
Here are some of the highlights from the book discussion of Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019) by Associate Professor Ho Kong Chong (NUS Sociology and Anthropology)!
The National University of Singapore (NUS) that we are familiar with today is the product of a merger between two predecessor tertiary education institutions. Nanyang University, which was Singapore’s only private university that employed Chinese as a medium of instruction, was first set up with the purpose of providing tertiary education to Chinese-educated students in […]
In ‘Weathering challenges ahead: Education on security issues is key’ (The Straits Times, August, 2022), Associate Professor Bilveer Singh (NUS Political Science) argues that security issues have become one of Singapore’s key priorities in light of surging inflation around the world. Southeast Asia is facing growing geopolitical uncertainties. Regional powers like China and India have […]
Congratulations to Professor Wang Gungwu (NUS History), Chairman of the NUS East Asian Institute and University Professor who won the Singapore Literature Prize on August 25, 2022! Home Is Where We Are (NUS Press, 2020), the second part of Prof Wang’s memoirs, topped the English creative non-fiction category. Prof Wang is one of the two […]