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 […]

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

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

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

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.

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