A team of researchers from the Asia Research Institute at NUS proposed a skills-based, tiered system of work pass for foreign maids who look after the elderly. The recommendation is a joint effort by Prof Brenda Yeoh, Research Leader at ARI’s Asian Migration Research Cluster and Dean of the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social …
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Professor Jean Yeung (Research Leader of NUS ARI Changing Family in Asia Cluster, Professor of Sociology Department & Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research), was interviewed on BBC’s Asia Business News on January 27th 2016 discussing the connection between economic growth and family planning policies in Indonesia. Prof Yeung noted that “there …
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Dr Nurfadzilah Yahaya from the Asia Research Institute at NUS, who was awarded the Alwehdah Arab Association of Singapore Dissertation Prize for best dissertation on Arabs in Southeast Asia, is working on a new book titled Fluid Jurisdictions of Arab Diaspora under Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia. Berita Harian, 19 September 2015, p6
Dr Lee Tsung-Ling, Postdoctoral Fellow at Asia Research Institute wrote about new China-led initiative for financing infrastructure projects from Myanmar to Russia may challenge the existing world financial order. Asia & The Pacific Policy Society Online, 28 May 2015
Ambassador K Kesavapany, from Asia Research Institute at NUS, highlighted that Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi shares several of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s ideals in improving the lot of their people, and noted that in the realm of foreign policy, similarities of approach can also be found in the early initiatives of the two …
Mr K Kesavapany, who is from the Asia Research Institute at NUS, observed that measures in Budget 2015 will have an impact on the Indian community, and hence it is important that its contents be made widely known particularly to retirees and low-income families. Tabla!, 20 March 2015, p8 Tamil Murasu, 20 March 2015, p2
Ambassador K Kesavapany from the Asia Research Institute at NUS discussed the role played by the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew in nurturing Singapore-India relations. Tabla!, 27 March 2015, p7
Mr K Kesavapany of the Asia Research Institute at NUS shared his views about Asean and its integrative processes. The Straits Times Online, 12 March 2015
This was an article contribution by Dr Ronojoy Sen, on election financing in India. He opined that the controversy over donations by dubious entities to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) shows up both the murkiness of election financing in India as well as the double standards of the major political parties. He also highlighted that …
This was an article contribution by Dr Ronojoy Sen on the productivity of the Parliament in India. He noted that due to disruptions, ambivalent PMs and ordinances, Parliament is a reduced place in India today. However, there are some bright spots. Behind the scenes, the committee system, which was expanded in 1993 with the setting …
