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How do P. Ramlee’s films reflect Malay society during the 1950s and ‘60s? The late P. Ramlee was born on 22 March 1929. An accomplished actor, director, and musician, he is regarded as a legend in Malay cinema. Raised in Penang, P. Ramlee first arrived in Singapore in 1949 upon invitation to join Shaw Studios …
How are women represented in local women’s magazines? Every 8 March, International Women’s Day (IWD) is commemorated to recognise women’s economic, political, and social achievements, as well as celebrate gender equality. In 2016, the Singapore Council of Women’s Organizations marked IWD with the theme ‘Marching to our own beat’ and inducted 14 outstanding women – …
What does it mean to be a woman? Some of us will make the conventional assumption that being a woman is about possessing an abundance of traditional feminine attributes. However, Assistant Professor Iccha Basnyat (NUS Department of Communications & New Media) and Assistant Professor Leanne Chang (NUS Department of Communications & New Media) argue against this …
Testifying before the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods in Parliament on Friday (March 16), NUS Assistant Professor Elmie Nekmat (Department of Communications and New Media) warns that the ongoing review of whether Singapore’s existing legal infrastructure is sufficient to curb the circulation of online fake news must not fail to take into account the …
FASS Bookshare celebrates and showcases books authored by faculty members who have dedicated years of research into their publications. In previous years Bookshare has highlighted single-authored books in a range of disciplines and topics, such as Asian Mobility, Power, and Representation, Development, Migration, and Protest in Asia and Southeast Asian Cosmopolitanism, Urbanism, and Tourism. This edition of Bookshare focuses on Religion, Diaspora, and Travel. Read …
Advance to Contact: Building a Collaborative Approach to Conflict Archaeology of the Second World War in Singapore is presented by The Research Division at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS. Speakers: Professor Tony Pollard and Mr Jonathan Cooper, Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow Chair: Professor John Miksic, Department of Southeast Asian …
Every third Tuesday in March, the International Federation of Social Workers commemorates World Social Work Day in 116 member countries, including Singapore. Despite the dedication of social workers, are the odds stacked against them in helping to reduce socioeconomic inequality in Singapore? In ‘Being Poor in a Rich “Nanny State”: Developments in Singapore Social Welfare’ …
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Singaporean poet Ho Poh Fun passed away yesterday (March 14) at the age of 71. Ho’s notable works include the short story “When the Tabebuia Bloomed at Soo Chow Gardens” that won the 1982 Short Story Writing Competition organized by the former Ministry of Culture. Her anthology Katong and Other Poems (1994), for which she …
Did you know that women in 14th century Singapore used to make their own pottery for cooking? Fragments of kitchenware were among the Temasek-period artefacts uncovered at an excavation at the Singapore Cricket Club. Currently, 2,000 items discovered in the dig have been listed in an online database developed by NUS Press, and the complete …
Whether you’ve seen them, heard them, had the unfortunate pleasure of smelling them after their first outfield camp or perhaps you’ve even been one of them – we all know them. NSmen. Today in history, Singapore passed the National Service (Amendment) Bill in 1967, making conscription compulsory for young men. Apart from the practical necessities …