Dr Nisha Mathew, joint Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute and Asia Research Institute at NUS wrote an op-ed piece about the protests in India against Modi government. South China Morning Post Online, 21 January 2020 A smiliar report was carried in: – South China Morning Post, 22 January 2020, Page A8
Prof Kenneth Dean, Head of the Department of Chinese Studies, and Research Leader at Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Senior Research Fellow Dr Hue Guan Thye from Chinese Studies, are leading a research to establish a database of prominent Chinese personalities and the contributions they made to early Singapore from the 19th to 21st centuries. …
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The world turned a corner in 2019. The problem is that the world order didn’t turn with it. This disconnect could have disastrous consequences. The biggest global change has been the start of the “Asian century.” Today, Asia is home to three of the world’s top four economic powers (in purchasing power parity terms): China, …
Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow from the Asia Research Institute at NUS opined that Asean’s culture of accommodation and pragmatism has proven to be a source of strength in a year marked by growing United States-China tensions. The Straits Times, Opinion pA29, 12 December 2019
The haze now engulfing Sydney is not an isolated problem. Dr Malini Sur and Dr Eric Kerr discuss the history, colour, and politics of dust and the implications for climate accountability. The Conversation, 22 November 2019
A Straits Times article about the Singapore Bicentennial Conference, with Prof Brenda Yeoh as one of the panelists discussing diversity and identity. She commented that families in the region are now more diverse, with many Singaporeans marrying people from nearby countries. Prof Yeoh has traced a history of diversity in Singapore, even as she noted …
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This was a report on the Singapore Summit 2019 at which Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at NUS, was a speaker of one of the dialogue sessions. Prof Mahbubani discussed the close ties amongst the Southeast Asian countries, as well as the relations between the Northeast Asian nations. He opined …
ARI Research Associate, Marcel Bandur, who is also a volunteer coordinator at Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), came up with the idea of equipping some out-of-work Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore with barista skills for the booming cafe culture in Dhaka. He recently took them to The Coffee Roaster at National University of Singapore for …
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Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, commented that political imperatives lay at the centre of what appeared to be a “trade” conflict between the US and China. He said that the ultimate goal of the US in its trade war with China may be to prevent its emerging rival from …
Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung opined that raising the retirement age is an inevitable policy shift. Employers and government need to work hard together to counter ageism and foster a work culture and environment friendly to a workforce with different age groups. The Straits Times, 22 August 2019, Opinion, pA23
