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Names are deliberate choices which reflect the particular preferences of the communities they belong to, and are a significant part of culture. In modern societies, the act of naming frequently involves a process of formal registration and can be accompanied by a christening ceremony, making the act of naming and the names themselves all the …
Naming as styling: Inauthenticity in building names in Singapore Read More »
The Housing and Development Board (HDB) Community Week is community engagement program usually held in the latter half of May each year. It is part of HDB’s plan to build community-centric towns and strengthen social bonding among residents living in the same community. Activities are held in various HDB neighbourhoods in Singapore. In 2019, …
Tampines Central: Government-Resident Partnerships at Work Read More »
On 20 May 2020, the Singapore government announced its three-phase roadmap to lift restrictions. Cultural activities — with limited crowd sizes — would resume only in the last phase as part of ‘a new normal’. The arts, heritage, and culture sectors have been among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. With lockdowns in place …
Assistant Professor Jack Meng Tat Chia (NUS Department of History) provides historical context to modern Buddhism in Singapore and a focused look at the Buddhist College of Singapore (BCS) in ‘Teaching Dharma, Grooming Sangha: The Buddhist College of Singapore’ (Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2009). ‘Reformist Buddhism’, a direct analogue of the Protestant …
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The significance and importance of maritime trade to Singapore’s economy cannot be understated. For over 150 years, Singapore was designed to be a free port, serving as an indispensable calling station between India and the so-called ‘West Asia’ and ‘Far East’. Since independence, Singapore has ranked as the world’s second busiest port in terms of …
As Buddhists in Singapore and around the world prepare to celebrate Vesak Day, a Special Issue of the journal Religions edited by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History) has been published, titled ‘Beyond the Mainland: Buddhist Communities in Maritime Southeast Asia’. It features five articles by Southeast Asian-based scholars in Anthropology, Chinese Studies, Communication …
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In the face of rapidly ageing population, Singapore has become highly dependent on foreign domestic workers to provide home-based care for the elderly. Popular perception of the relationship between migrant caregivers and elderly care recipients is polarised. While some media reports have highlighted acts of abuse and even murder of the elderly by migrant caregivers, …
Tuning care relations between migrant caregivers and the elderly in Singapore Read More »
Marking a cautiously calibrated return of the University to the normalcy of hosting large on-site events, this year’s CHS Open House is a two-day hybrid programme: 11 May on Zoom (and viewable on CHS’ Facebook page) and 14 May on several locations across the NUS Kent Ridge campus, specifically the areas around the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS), and the Faculty of Science (FoS).
The 1969 Singapore race riots were a seven-day fiasco that lasted from 31 May to 6 June 1969. Resulting from a spill-over of racial tensions in Malaysia, the 1969 riots were the first of two riots in post-independence Singapore history. Occurring not long after the tumultuous 1964 race riots, the 1969 riots once again highlighted …
Fostering Neighbourliness through Public Housing in Singapore Read More »
In the late 1990s, there were concerns of a decline in Singapore’s standard of English. This was attributed to Singaporeans’ penchant of using Singlish in casual conversation, which is grammatically incorrect and not commonly understood among foreigners. To reverse this problem, the Speak Good English Movement was launched on 29 April 2000 to discourage the …