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