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The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy celebrated its 16th Anniversary in 2020 by hosting its first of a series of four webinars on the themes of Singapore Policy Challenges, Technology, International Relations and Sustainability & Environment. Watch the webinar recording here.
The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists is held annually on 2 November to condemn violence against journalists. Fortunately, the rule of law in Singapore is strong and journalists here are able to do their jobs with little fear of violence. However, the Singapore government’s strict control of information disseminated online has […]
Human Development” at the NUS Phd eOpen Day Forum yesterday. Professor Jean Yeung shared her research on demographic challenges, human development and social inequality. She touched upon how Asian families in different regions have transformed since the 1970s due to a decline in fertility and marriage rates as well as ideological evolution. Prof Yeung underscored […]
In ‘Inequality: How you view it depends on what you’re told’ in the 29th October Straits Times, Dr Ong Ee Cheng (NUS Economics)and Ms Evelyn Kok Siew Peng (graduate of NUS Economics, discuss their study on 404 National University of Singapore students that revealed the effect of information on how we view inequality and what […]
Professor Jean Yeung (NUS CFPR and Sociology) was interviewed on Channel 8’s Hello Singapore about Singaporean fathers taking paternity leave on Tuesday, 27 October. She shared results from the 2019 SG LEADS (Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study). They included the fact that 66.4% of the dads in families with a child under 7 took the […]
The Singapore River Festival was held from 2 August to 15 September 2019 at various riverside venues in Singapore. Some of the festival highlights included the Riverfront Spectacular in Clarke Quay Central, which showcased talented local music and circus acts, and the LAH Bazaar which is an outdoor market concept selling food and beverage. […]
The Progressive Wage Model (PWM) was introduced in 2012 and aimed to improve the wages and working conditions of the Cleaning, Security, and Landscaping sectors that encompass the bottom 20% of Singapore’s income earners. Implementation by the MOM came three years later, in September 2015 for Cleaning and Security and July 2016 for landscaping, with […]
The International Day of Climate Action was first organised on the 24th of October 2009 by 350.org, a global climate movement. More specifically, it was first organised around the scientific data point of 350 parts per million, the safe concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In the discourse of climate action, poetry is […]
In celebration of Professor Wang Gungwu’s 90th birthday and imminent book release, NUS conducted an interview with him at the Bukit Timah campus. It becomes clear as the meeting unfolds, delving through his time in Southeast Asia, China, and the West, that Singapore has been very fortunate to have kept the renowned scholar working and […]
Professor Jean Yeung (NUS Centre for Family and Population Research & Dept of Sociology) was interviewed on the TV programme Frontline on their episode ‘Living Alone in Singapore’. Prof Yeung commented that the trend of living alone will continue to increase, not only for older adults but also for young people, including those that postpone […]