Tackling Religious Taboo
Dr Lai Ah Eng feels that it will be good for Singapore to be able to speak more openly on race and religion. The Straits Times, 12 September 2008
Cloud of concern over our silver generation
Ageing is a sign of success in two aspects, according to Gavin Jones, a professor at the Asia Research lnstitute in the National University of Singapore. It symbolises success in “the elongation of life” and “controlling what were previously overly high fertility rates”, Jones said at the launch of a book he co-edited, The Impact …
Women up in arms
Hong Kong singer-actress Kelly Chen gets down and dirty in the period costume epic An Empress And The Warriors. Clad in metal armour and helmet, she commands an army of foot soldiers and fights to save her kingdom. She charges into battle on horseback. She is a mean archer and gets her head stomped into …
Welfare spending: Is it just about money?
A yawning income gap combined with what appears to be swelling gov-ernment coffers have turned the spotlight on whether Singapore is doing enough to help its poor and needy. In an Asia Research Institute seminar on Tuesday, three panellists debated the whys and wherefores of welfare policy. Senior Political Correspondent Lydia Lim reports. The Straits …
Why not more welfare for the poor?
The Government has funds to spare, and yet there are poor folk who struggle to get by. This combination is one that a growing number of better-off Singaporeans seem to find discomfiting. They want to know if the Government can afford to do more for the needy, and if so, why is it not doing …
Korean pop culture in Southeast Asian countries and beyond
In the last few years, Korean films, TV dramas and pop music have become immensely popular abroad, a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave. This is the 18th in a series of essays by a select group of foreign scholars and journalists looking at the spread of Korean pop culture in Southeast Asian countries and …
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Hawker Food Fans
Professor Lily Kong loves hawker food so much that even a fainting spell could not stand between her and a bowl of her favourite pig’s organ soup from Tiong Bahru Market. The fit of dizziness happened in 1989, when the National University of Singapore (NUS) vice-provost (education) was at the market for breakfast. She had …
Surprise! Friends come before the 5Cs
If you thought the Singapore dream is driven by the materialism of the Five Cs, the results of a new survey may surprise you. Friendship came up more important, by far, than the famous Five Cs – cash, car, credit card, condominium and country club membership – according to a survey by The Straits Times. …
Varsities’s top brains draw foreign postgrads
Rise in numbers means NUS and NTU can pick and choose from applicants wanting to work with well-known academic here. The presence of top academics such as famous South-east Asian historian Anthony Reid is drawing more research students from around the world to Singapore. The Straits Times, 25 December 2003, H6