Earlier in March, Seah Kian Peng, a Member of Parliament in Singapore, “expressed shock” at the overwhelming number of foreign faculty members in Singapore’s universities. Seah pointed out the need for more Singaporean academics in “context-sensitive […]
The second Young Academic’s Voice article is by Alex Tham. He casts a critical gaze at his home country, Singapore, and sees the threads that bind the country together slowly pulling apart. Singapore’s development hasn’t been met with the same level of social growth and this will not bode well for society if relationships are always measured in just economic terms. […]
Gone Case, A Graphic NovelStory by Dave Chua. Art by Koh Hong Teng. Edited by Joyce Sim.Singapore. Book 1 (2010), Book 2 (2011) Popular culture provides a way for us to understand Southeast Asia and comics gives […]
Heritage is unsatisfactory for considering the social role of the past. It tends to select and discard from the past and produce partial historical accounts. It often invents a past that appeared immune to historical change. Heritage is neat, celebratory and uni-dimensional in the way that history is often not. […]
Said ZahariDark Clouds at Dawn: A Political MemoirKuala Lumpur / Insan / 2001 Said ZahariMeniti Lautan Gelora: Sebuah Memoir PolitikKuala Lumpur / Utusan / 2001 Translated and adapted from the remarks of Abdul Rahman Embong […]
Absent History: The Untold Story of Special Branch Operations in Singapore 1915-1942Ban Kah ChoonSingapore / SNP Media Asia / 2001 Writing a history of British political intelligence activity in East and Southeast Asia is an […]
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