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Age of Decision: Pension Savings Withdrawal and Consumption and Debt Response

June 26, 2018

On July 1 1955, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) was introduced as a compulsory savings plan for Singaporeans and permanent residents to fund retirement, healthcare, and housing needs. Individuals are given the flexibility to withdraw 10-30% of their CPF savings when they turn 55. Visiting Professor Sumit Agarwal of NUS Business School, Associate Professor Jessica …

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Multinational Corporations, Patenting, and Knowledge Flow: The Case of Singapore

June 19, 2018

Observing the growing trend of outsourcing in Asia’s biomedical research and development (R&D) market, International Enterprise Singapore launched a new Singapore Biomedical R&D Consortium on 23 June 2011 to help Singapore-based companies tap into this potential. Multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) decisions of where to locate R&D are influenced by push and pull factors. Efficient supervision and …

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Sherlock Hong: The Immortal Nightingale

June 12, 2018

If you’re looking for clues to entertain children this June holiday, look no further than Dept of English Language and Literature alumnus Don Bosco’s Sherlock Hong series! The first of this four part series is The Immortal Nightingale (2015). Other than an interest in solving mysteries, Sherlock Hong and Sherlock Holmes are worlds apart. Hong …

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Family and Population Changes in Singapore: A Unique Case in Global Family Change

June 7, 2018

In the 1990s, Singapore grounded “Asian family values” of love, care, mutual respect, filial piety and commitment as its core national “Shared Values.” After two decades, the country’s population has tripled and become more globalised, yet Singapore has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. Do these family values still remain relevant for …

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Coffee-shops in Colonial Singapore: Domains of Contentious Publics

June 5, 2018

Bottoms up and chug down your kopi! Inaugurated on 9 June 2016, the Singapore Coffee Festival celebrates Singapore’s unique and rich coffee heritage. Singapore’s coffee culture can be traced back to the colonial era, when coffee-shops (kopi tiam in Hokkien) were an indispensable part of the lives of most working adults. Providing an important space …

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Dahdi (2014) by ELL Alumna Kirsten Tan

May 28, 2018

What if a stranger, an asylum seeker, turned up at your doorstep? Would you let him enter? Alumna Kirsten Tan (Dept of English Language and Literature) deals with these questions in her award winning film, Dahdi (2014). The film is inspired by the Maritime and Port Authority’s controversial decision to deny a boat of Rohingya …

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Examining Singapore’s Environmental Assets With Natural Capital Singapore

May 23, 2018

Singapore acknowledges the importance of the natural environment to economic performance and livability, but the true obstacle lies in assessing the country’s environmental assets at a national level. Awarded with a $4.8 million project over three years, NUS Associate Professor of Geography Daniel Friess will be leading the national-scale assessment of Singapore’s natural capital, along …

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Singapore Chinese Society in Transition: Business, Politics, and Socio-Economic Change, 1945-1965

May 22, 2018

What was Singapore Chinese society like in the post-war years of 1945-1965?   As of 2013, around 74.2% of Singapore’s population is comprised of ethnic Chinese, demonstrative of how impactful the Chinese population has been in the shaping of Singapore as we see it today. In fact, the Chinese Heritage Centre was established on 17 …

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Families Living in Public Housing: A Minority Likely to be Stigmatised?

May 21, 2018

A sizeable number of families with children below 15 years of age live in public rental flats in Singapore, but how exactly does housing affect families and the establishment of a home? An ongoing study under the Social Service Research Centre (SSR) at NUS attempts to understand how families define “home,” while examining the obstacles …

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“Cosmopolitan Adaptation” as Strategy for Muslim Immigrants in the West

May 18, 2018

There are a growing number of studies focused on Muslim migrants in Singapore, but how exactly are Malay-Muslim migrants out of Singapore adapting to new communities overseas? Associate Professor Khairudin Aljunied from the NUS Department of Malay Studies will be leading research on how first-generation Muslim immigrants adapt in Western environments through a case study …

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