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Opened in January 1985, St Joseph’s Home is Singapore’s first palliative care service. The then hospice had merely 16 beds for inpatient care but has since grown and taken care of the elderly for over 35 years. In this time, medical staff and care workers have offered their help and services to ensure the well-being …
In the The Edge Malaysia Weekly’s opinion piece, “Against the Grain: The relevance of pre-modern Malay political theory”, Professor Syed Farid Alatas reflects on the lessons contemporary Malay politics can learn from its pre-Modern political texts. Prof Alatas refers to the Taj al-Salatin, a text from the ‘nasihat’ (counsel-for-kings) genre, which informed and shaped pre-modern …
The M1 Singapore Fringe Festival is an annual festival that honours fringe theatre, music, dance, and creative arts. This year, the festival will be held from 20 January to 31 January with the theme ‘Quiet Riot’ in recognition of peaceful activism. Launched in 2005 by ‘The Necessary Stage’, a local non-profit theatre company, the festival …
Dr Rini Astuti and Dr Michelle Ann Miller (both NUS Asia Research Institute), along with Professor David Taylor (NUS Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute) comment on Indonesia’s shortcomings in meeting its 2020 peatland restoration target in Today. Their article, “Indonesia has not met target to restore peatlands that is key to prevent forest …
Community-based sentencing (CBS) in Singapore came into force on 2 January 2011 and was meant to provide flexibility in sentencing. The options include the Mandatory Treatment Order (MTO), which enables judges to mandate compulsory psychiatric treatment in lieu of a custodial sentence after verification of the offender’s mental illness by a court-appointed psychiatrist. In ‘Psychology …
Photo: SRN’s SG Photobank/ Filbert Kuong Many Singaporeans view divorce negatively. Divorce reflects a failed marriage – a deviation from the lifetime marital bliss that couples look forward to. However, the mean number of annual divorces has risen in Singapore over the last half decade. The Ministry of Social and Family Development’s recently released Study …
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The NUS Giving Webinar Series, “Understanding and Supporting Low-Income Families during COVID-19 and its Aftermath”, moderated by Professor Loy Hui Chieh (NUS Department of Philosophy) discussed the crippling effect of COVID-19 on low-income families in Singapore. Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Department of Sociology and CFPR) highlighted that the pandemic has increased the income disparity …
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As the world reflects on the Covid-19 pandemic, the ideal city is also undergoing re-evaluation. In ‘Where is the future for cities?’ in TODAY, Associate Professor Tim Bunnell (NUS Geography and Director of Asia Research Institute) and Associate Professor Daniel Goh (NUS Sociology) discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated redefinitions of the ‘successful’ city …
On the 20th of December each year, International Human Solidarity Day is observed to celebrate diversity, to encourage ways to promote solidarity towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and to continue to uphold global partnerships and international agreements. In the article “Multiculturalism and the Problem of Solidarity” (Management of Success, 2018) Associate Professor …
The thought-provoking opinion piece in The Straits Times “Ask: NUS Economists” monthly series, “Same meal, different fees: Delivery charges vary in unexpected ways” raises questions on the possible methods used by delivery applications to exploit user information. Published on 19 December 2020, this article by Dr Julian Wright (NUS Department of Economics) and Lim Zi …