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On 14 December 1992, the Tampines Chinese Temple was officially opened by then Minister for Communications and Development Mr Mah Bow Tan. The temple is used to house deities from nine Chinese temples located nearby, which had to be demolished to make way for further development of the Tampines area. Virtual tours are envisioned to […]
Singapore won seven gold medals at the 18th World Pencak Silat Championships during the 13th to the 16th of December 2018. This was the country’s best-ever showing at the competition, which is widely considered to be the pinnacle of competitive events in the regional sport. In addition to being a sport and a form […]
Assistant Professor Elvin Ong (NUS Department of Political Science) will soon be releasing a book with the University of Michigan Press, as part of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series, titled Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies. The book argues that opposition party leaders’ perceptions of regime vulnerability and inter-party dependency shape […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on Singapore’s aviation industry. Singaporeans lament their missed vacations and opportunities for travel. Transporting cargo via air freight, which was once considered routine, now poses its own set of logistical challenges because of strict public health restrictions. We are increasingly aware of Singapore’s reliance on its aviation […]
Mandated by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, International Volunteer Day (IVD) is annually commemorated on 5 December. The UN Volunteers programme organises a campaign each year to promote IVD, recognising the initiatives of volunteers and volunteering organisations. IVD also provides an opportunity to share new volunteering projects and garner support from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), […]
In ‘Lower-income families with young kids worst hit by pandemic: Study’ (The Straits Times, 2021), Professor Jean Wei-Jun Yeung (NUS CFPR and Department of Sociology) shares how the Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG Leads), a large-scale study that involves 4,355 children, found that home-based learning during the Covid-19 pandemic put kids from needy households […]
Contrary to the narratives propagated by popular history, Singapore’s story predates the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819. Unfortunately, a significant portion of what is known about Singapore in the 19th century before it was colonized by the British is often fragmented and scattered. This changed after the arrival of the British on its […]
The National University of Singapore’s Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) will be holding the 2ndInternational Conference and Training Workshop on Household and Living Arrangement Projections for Informed Decision-Making from 13-14 January 2022. The conference and the workshop will be held online and will focus on the dynamics of households and living arrangements in […]
On November 23, Dr Mathew Mathews (NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Head of Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) Social Lab) moderated the IPS-RSIS Conference on Identity. The key points of the panel discussion were shared in ‘Six views on identities and diversity’ (The Straits Times, 2021). Professor Vineeta Sinha (NUS Department […]
‘China, Asean and the new Maritime Silk Road’ (The Straits Times, 2021) features edited excerpts of University Professor Wang Gungwu’s (NUS Department of History) keynote speech from a recent webinar organized by the Academy of Professors Malaysia. After World War 2, the only people who thought about South-east Asia as a region were those from […]