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Singapore’s total fertility rate fell to an alarming 1.1 births per female in 2020. In an interview with CCTV-13, Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Sociology; Centre for Family and Population Research) shares insights as to how the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused couples to delay marriages and children. The loss of income and jobs undoubtedly played …
In an article in the Straits Times Invisible Asia series, Professor Jean Yeung’s (NUS Sociology; Centre for Family and Population Research) landmark study on marriages between Singaporean men and non-resident women was highlighted. Specifically, the research, part of the Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG-LEADS) uncovered the following insights: -The age gap between couples averages …
Dear NUS Staff/Students, You are invited to a Roundtable Discussion titled ‘Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Lives’. In this roundtable discussion, we invite six speakers who identify as transgender and gender-nonconforming and/or have worked closely with trans and gender-nonconforming people to share their stories and experiences with us. This will be followed by a Q&A session where …
As of 21 March 2020, Singapore had recorded under 400 COVID-19 infections and zero deaths and was widely praised by the international community for its efforts in keeping transmission rates under control. Around a week later, however, the first few COVID-19 cases started to emerge in the dormitories where thousands of foreign migrant workers reside. …
Social Capital and Integration of Low-Income Binational Families in Singapore Read More »
The modern scientific and technological world is often criticised to be isolating, alienating and absent of meaning. Professor Syed Farid Alatas (NUS Sociology and Malay Studies) reflects on these criticisms through the lens of Muslim religious and philosophical thoughts in ‘Against The Grain: Erring modernisation and development’, an article in The Edge Markets. Modernisation and …
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Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster Presents The Shades of Love film screening + director’s Q&A Filmed during the events of COVID-19, The Shades of Love (2020) is a 14-minute short film that presents glimpses into the lives and livelihoods of three female-identifying sex workers in Singapore. The film’s uses of disembodied audio recordings and images of the Singaporean …
In a commentary in The Business Times responding to increased petrol duty rates and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on online-bought small-ticket items mentioned in the Singapore Budget 2021 (“Is it time to raise taxes on the rich?”), Professor Sumit Agarwal (NUS Economics; NUS Business School, Department of Economics, Finance and Real Estate) proposes …
What happens when traditional and regular sources of income, such as from full-time jobs, dry up? Or even income for non-traditional careers, like artists, whose livelihoods were based on public events prior to the pandemic that now, in this new age of social distancing, have become increasingly difficult to organise as a result of COVID-19? …
The Singapore Demographic Bulletin Fourth Quarter 2020 report highlights Singapore’s serious population problem. This report provided provisional figures to suggest that in 2020, Singapore’s birth rate hit a 10-year low while death rates were highest in almost a century. ‘Births in Singapore hit decade low as deaths climb to historic peak’ in The Straits Times …
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The National Service (Amendment) Bill was passed on 14th March 1967 and made it compulsory for all 18-year-old male Singaporean citizens and permanent residents to undergo two years of military service. Though modified and modernised in recent years, the bill has retained its original focus and intent over the following half century – to protect …