Was Singapore’s 1992 by-election an unexpected landslide? The 1992 Marine Parade by-election on 19 December saw the incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP) contest against the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), the National Solidarity Party (NSP), and the Singapore Justice Party (SJP). The results showed that the PAP won a higher-than-expected 72.9% of the votes. Assoc. Prof. […]

The Maria Hertogh riots occurred in Singapore on 11 December 1950 over the custody lawsuit of Maria Hertogh, a girl born into a Dutch-Eurasian Roman Catholic family. Maria was raised by a foster Malay family during the war and moved with them to Kemaman, Malaya after the war ended. She was also legally married to […]

International Volunteer Day is held annually on 5 December as mandated by the United Nations General Assembly. It pays homage to volunteers worldwide and celebrates their efforts in assisting the disadvantaged. In Singapore, where there is an absence of a welfare state, Voluntary Welfare Organizations (VWOs) have helped serve citizens’ welfare needs. Professor Shamsul Haque […]

World AIDS Day is commemorated every 1st December, aiming to unite people in the fight against HIV/AIDS and show support to those living with the disease. ‘How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore’ (International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 2017) by A/P Esther Goh […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]