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Communal riots broke out on 21st July 1964 in Singapore, marking the start of race-based civil disturbances on the island. The government responded by imposing island wide curfews and deploying military and police personnel to maintain law and order. The 1964 riots remind Singaporeans of the importance of racial and religious harmony in multiracial and […]
The National University of Singapore will host the 11th World Shakespeare Congress from 18th July 2021. The six day event will be held online — the first time the congress will be held digitally. The event brings together scholars from all over the world with their own understandings of Shakespeare. The event will facilitate exchange […]
The Straits Times was established on 15 July 1845 as the Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce. With the rise of new media and citizen journalism, traditional journalism has had to quickly adapt. In the article ‘When new media operates within a state-mediated press system: assessing new media’s impact on journalism crisis perceptions in […]
Finance Minister Lawrence Wong recently announced that groups of five could be allowed to dine-in at eateries in Singapore from July 12th, 2021. This is a relaxation of current restrictions which only allow two people to dine-in at a time. The multi-ministry taskforce has managed restrictions in response to the changes in the number of […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) celebrated its 100th anniversary on 1st July 2021. The world’s second largest political party commemorated the special occasion with national celebrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing where Mao Zedong, the chairman of the party at the time, proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Since the founding […]
On 14 July 1973, The Presidential Council for Minority Rights (PCMR) was established in Singapore to safeguard minority interests in the country. Since then, the PCMR has been responsible for ensuring that no legislative measures discriminate against any minority race or religion, or act simply in the interest of the majority. However, the public discourse […]
Existing literature on Singapore-China relations since the reopening of China in the late 1970s has generally been based on political relations and economic and trade co-operation, with no existing literature having explored the role of religion or Buddhism in particular. In “Buddhism in Singapore-China Relations: Venerable Hong Choon and His Visits, 1982 – 1990” (The […]
In “Reframing the Malay Past in Singapore’s History” (from Beyond Bicentennial Perspectives on Malays, published in July 2020), Associate Professor Sher Banu A.L. Khan (NUS Department of Malay Studies) writes about how Singapore’s history should be traced back to the 14th century, rather than only from 1918, which the PAP elite identified as the beginning of […]
The annual Singapore Street Festival Exhibition (SSF) aims to celebrate the youth community and is usually held between June and July. Events involving street art in SSF are especially interesting because the Singapore government has traditionally opposed street art and graffiti. In ‘Writing on the Wall: Street Art in Graffiti-free Singapore’ (International Journal of Urban […]
One month ago on 26 May, 2021, many Buddhists living in Singapore celebrated Vesak Day, which marks the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. Vesak Day occurs on the 15th day of the fourth lunar month, which typically falls in May. In Singapore, a street procession takes place in the evening of Vesak Day […]