As part of the ‘ASK: NUS Economics’ series by The Straits Times, Professor Ivan Png (NUS Business School, NUS Department of Economics, and NUS Department of Information Systems and Analytics) writes about the importance of adapting operating procedures for companies to improve productivity amidst changes in customers, technology, organisational size, and workers’ capabilities. As Principal …

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National Grandparent’s Day was observed on Sunday 24th November this year. Many of us consider grandparents to be important people in our lives. During childhood, our grandparents may have assumed responsibility as our primary caregivers while our parents were at work. Their importance in influencing and shaping our character and values during our formative years …

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The launch of Professor Tan Tai Yong’s (NUS Department of History) new book, The Idea of Singapore: Smallness Unconstrained (World Scientific, 2019), on 8 November 2019 was featured in The Straits Times. The book details Singapore’s evolution over the past 700 years and the factors that have shaped the nation historically and continue to influence …

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Dr Hussin Mutalib was a stalwart at FASS. A former faculty member at the Department of Political Science, he had written extensively on Singapore, Malaysia, ethnic minorities, the Middle East, and contemporary Islam. This week, we feature one of his journal articles, ‘Illiberal Democracy and the Future of Opposition in Singapore’, published in 2000 in …

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Did you know that November is the annual National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)? Launched in 1999, NaNoWriMo is a fun, Internet-based creative writing project where participants from all over the world attempt to write a 50,000 word manuscript between 1 and 30 November. Today we feature These Foolish Things & Other Stories, a collection of …

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Hard at Work: Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2019), edited by Associate Professor Gerard Sasges (NUS Department of Southeast Asian Studies) and Ms Ng Shi Wen, was recently featured in an editorial in The Straits Times by Mr Han Fook Kwang. Mr Han praised the book for contributing towards understanding work in Singapore today and …

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At the inaugural Singapore Sikh Community Lecture held on 2nd November 2019, Professor Tan Tai Yong (NUS Department of History) discussed the need for the Sikh community to evolve and adapt to ensure that Sikhism will continue to thrive in Singapore. The lecture was part of larger celebrations for the 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism …

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In 2007 at the young age of 19, Malaysian Yong Vui Kong was arrested for smuggling 47.27 grams of heroin into Singapore. After a prolonged court case that stretched until 14 November 2013, he became the first drug trafficker on Singapore’s death row to avoid the death penalty, with his sentence reduced to life imprisonment …

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Associate Professor Bertha Henson (NUS Department of Communications and New Media) and Mr Sean Lim (NUS Department of Political Science), in an editorial in Yahoo! News, provide an overview of the legislation that the 13th Parliament of Singapore has handled during its term, and identify noteworthy Bills that have introduced new laws or amended existing …

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