In 1961, the International Theatre Institute (ITI) initiated World Theatre Day on 27th March, now celebrated by theatre practitioners, fans, and schools across the world. Each year, an outstanding figure in theatre or a person who is outstanding in heart and spirit from another field is invited to share their reflections on theatre and international […]

  Since the 1950s, Singapore’s mangrove extent has declined by more than 90 percent. However, because of the growing concern of climate change and the instrumental role that mangrove forests can play in protecting human infrastructure on land, the government has announced plans to restore them. In ‘Restoring mangroves to protect coasts, reduce warming’ by […]

  In this months’ Straits Times’ “Ask NUS” column, Dr Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng’s (NUS Economics) article on “How can we tell if women are discriminated against in the labour market?” examines the methods in which the gender pay gap can be credibly measured. He points out that while Singapore’s median monthly salary of full-time […]

While global mangrove destruction rates in the 21st century have declined significantly from those reported for previous decades, Eco-Business reveals that mangrove destruction rates in Southeast Asia (SEA), in particular, are twice as much as the global average and faster than anywhere else. These findings are cited from an international study on the state of […]

World Social Work Day is celebrated annually on the third Tuesday of March. As such, this month we turn the spotlight on social work practices in Singapore, and on those who work diligently behind the scenes to offer assistance in our communities. Dr Rosaleen Ow, Senior Lecturer from NUS Department of Social Work, and Ms […]

On 12 March 1990, the Creative Arts Programme (CAP) was established by the Ministry of Education’s Gifted Education Unit in collaboration with the National University of Singapore’s Department of English Language and Literature. CAP is an annual creative writing programme open to secondary and junior college students. Comprising of a seminar and a nine-month mentorship […]

As part of a monthly feature, ‘Singapore Shelf’, Ms Olivia Ho from The Straits Times spotlights eight hot-off-the-press books authored by local writers. Among them are Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore (NUS Press, 2019) by Associate Professor Timothy Barnard (NUS Department of History) and Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer (NUS […]

On 17 February 2020, Associate Professor Peter Borschberg (NUS History) addressed the fellows and members of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) on the topic of “Singapore’s Longer History”. Most visitors to Singapore will know about Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and how he established a British trading post on the island in 1819. […]

In recent years, mangrove forests have been propelled into the limelight as researchers and academics extol their potential in mitigating climate change. Some critical benefits include protection from coastal erosion, filtering pollution and sediment, and carbon sequestration – helping to store large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Thankfully, mangrove conservation efforts so far have paid […]

109 years ago, on 19 March, International Women’s Day (celebrated 8 March) was honoured for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. This would come to be an important milestone in the arena of female representation, in a time when society on a global scale was still overwhelmingly patriarchal. Today, a little closer […]