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Chinese New Year celebrations will be held on 12 and 13 February in Singapore in 2021. The ethnic Chinese, who comprise around 75% of the population, will look forward to watching lion dances, having reunion dinners, and visiting their extended family and friends. The influence of Chinese culture in Singapore was established since the first …
In the Channel News Asia commentary “WhatsApp’s new T&Cs could spark changes to how data and privacy are managed”, Dr Natalie Pang (NUS Department of Communications and New Media) addresses the concerns netizens have expressed regarding the changes in WhatsApp’s privacy policies. Dr Pang also explains the legal jargon of WhatsApp’s new terms and conditions …
Thaipusam is a vibrant festival celebrated by Hindus to seek blessings, fulfil vows, and offer gratitude. As part of the ceremony, devotees transport a wooden ceremonial structure known as kavadis. Part of the kavadis is pierced into the skin of the devotee while being transported, and is one of the more extreme forms of the …
Hidden Heritage: A series exploring Singapore’s minority South Asian communities Read More »
Channel News Asia’s live podcast, CNA938 Q&A, covered the pertinent topic of sexual misconduct in response to the increasing number of reported cases of it in the past few years. Associate Professor Tracey Skelton (NUS Department of Geography), chair of the NUS Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster (GSRC), features as the third guest on this …
A study by Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Sociology and Centre for Family and Population Research) and Shuya Lu (NUS PhD student) revealed that families with non-Singaporean wives and Singaporean husbands face the most socioeconomic challenges as compared to other households in Singapore. “New study sheds light on cross-national families in S’pore”, in The Straits Times …
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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 …