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SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) was initiated to encourage lifelong learning and skills upgrading amongst Singaporeans. It provides courses that target adults in the workforce, equipping them with industry-relevant skills to match the current economic climate. On 7 February 2020, it was reported in The Straits Times in ‘More Singaporeans, companies using SkillsFuture for training: SSG’ that […]
Chinese New Year, which falls on February 1 in 2022, is also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. It is the most important festival to Chinese people, and celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. ‘Chinese’ is often used interchangeably as designations of race, ethnicity, and […]
Apart from being a port of call and a hub for trade and industry, Singapore was also a centre for photography in its early days. Photographers descended from Europe looking to document their travels to Southeast Asia. Photography presented another way of documenting history and was instrumental in visualising the world. Before photography became popular […]
The virtual event hosted by the Singapore Research Nexus at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, took place on Friday, 7 January 2022. The webinar featured three different panels focusing on the themes of Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, Religion and Place, and Language and Multiculturalism. A wide variety of researchers from […]
On 23 January 2020, Singapore recorded its first-ever case of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, on the anniversary of the first-recorded case of COVID-19, the effects of the pandemic still live on in the lives of those whom it has disturbed. In light of this, additional studies need to be conducted on more than just the […]
The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament on 15 January 2019. One of the Act’s provisions allows repeat drug offenders who are without concurrent offences a chance for rehabilitation at the Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The Singapore Prison Service hopes that the enhanced rehabilitation measures for such offenders will lower the recidivism rate. […]
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!
The virtual ICT4Good/Asia Workshop, jointly hosted by the CivicTech Lab, the Department of Communications and New Media, and the Singapore Research Nexus at the National University of Singapore, took place on Wednesday, 17 November 2021. This workshop brought together researchers and practitioners pursuing ICT4Good in Asia to discuss the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral development of the […]
On 10 January 2020, the Singapore Structural Steel Society organized an international symposium on ‘Advances in Steel and Composite Structures’ (http://www.ssss.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=78). Steel and composite construction are usually employed in high rise buildings due to their high strength-to-weight ratio, structural efficiency, and robustness. The symposium offered international experts the opportunity to discuss and reveal new knowledge […]