How does the employment of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in Singapore reinforce negative nationalistic and gendered stereotypes? For a long time, domestic workers (DWs) lacked legal protections and regularly experienced exploitation and abuse. Now, we celebrate International Domestic Workers’ Day on 16 June every year – the same day when the ‘Convention on Decent Work […]

We are pleased to announce that the book Seven Hundred Years: A History of Singapore (Marshall Cavendish, 2019), co-authored by Professor Tan Tai Yong, Associate Professor Peter Borschberg, Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor Kwa Chong Guan, all from the NUS Department of History, and Associate Professor Derek Heng (Yale-NUS), has been listed on 11 June 2019 […]

The International Day of Older Persons is observed on 1 October each year. It was designated by the United Nations to emphasize the different needs and challenges facing the elderly today, and to reiterate how older, healthy people can continue to function and contribute productively to society. In Singapore, the elderly population is projected to […]

In the international playing field, Singapore has long been famous, or some would say infamous, for being a country with individuals highly focused on obtaining higher academic qualifications. This culture has been attributed to the government’s influence, in a bid to raise the country’s standard of education since the Singapore’s independence. In a monthly Straits […]

At the launch of the Singapore Bicentennial Experience on 30 May, President Halimah Yaacob gave the opening address to kickstart the multimedia art installation, a flagship event of the Bicentennial commemoration announced earlier this year. In her speech, Madam Halimah briefly recapped the better-known portion of Singapore’s history, beginning with Sang Nila Utama’s stake on […]

On 6th June 2019, the NUS Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) will be launching the book Family and Population in Asia, jointly edited by CFPR Director Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung (NUS Department of Sociology) and Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng (NUS Department of Japanese Studies). The bilingual book is a collection of 30 essays based […]

We would like to congratulate Assistant Professor Lin Weiqiang (NUS Department of Geography) and Associate Professor Irene Ng (NUS Department of Social Work) on being awarded the inaugural Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR) Fellowship and Social Science Research Thematic Grant (SSRTG) respectively. The SSHR fellowship was launched in August 2018 as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)’s first […]

It was only in 1960 that Singapore managed to call itself a sovereign nation and dedicate a day of celebration for independence from colonial rulers. From 1960 to 1963, Singapore celebrated its National Day on 3rd June to commemorate the day it gained self-governance in 1959. The first National Day Parade held on 9th August […]

On 5 March 2019, Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung announced the new Ministry of Education (MOE) move to remove streaming of students by academic ability in secondary schools by 2024, in a bid to encourage greater social equality among secondary school students. Dr Kelvin Seah Kah Cheng (NUS Department of Economics) in his commentary […]

In line with the Bicentennial, the National Library Board (NLB) and the Singapore Bicentennial Office jointly published Seven Hundred Years: A History of Singapore (Marshall Cavendish, 2019). The book is a revamped version of the 2009 edition, and is currently the only single volume that covers 700 years of Singapore’s history. Moreover, it represents 30 […]