Filming and transcription completed for 561 graves at Bukit Brown  |
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| 11 December 2011 |
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| It was an opportunity for NTU student Goh Chye Kim to learn more about Chinese heritage when he joined Dr Hui Yew-Foong and a group of volunteers to conduct documentation work for the graves at Bukit Brown. Dr Hui, the anthropologist tasked by the government to document the graves, hopes to complete the cultural and historical record of some 5,000 graves by March next year. |
Read more in:
Lianhe Zaobao, page 5
The Sunday Times, page 12 |
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| What makes you happy? |
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| 9 December 2011 |
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| The report noted that there is a growing body of research which suggests that growth in GDP, which adds up all that is produced and consumed in an economy, does not lead to greater happiness. The paradox was highlighted in 1974 by American economist Richard Easterlin. According to economist Nattavudh Powdthavee of NTU human beings care a lot about status. “Many people would rather be the second richest person in a poor area, than to live in a rich area where many are better off than them,” he said. Hence, as incomes rise across the board in advanced countries like Singapore, it becomes increasingly harder to improve one's status in relation to others. He added that money only buys happiness if it buys you rank and status, but there's not so much rank to go around. Regarding international happiness rankings, Dr Powdthavee cautioned that they should be taken in context. The main purpose of happiness indicators is to track how people within a country fare across time and demographic groups, he said. The information should also be made publicly available for academics and policymakers to study. |
Read more in:
The Straits Times, pages A28, A29
Asia News Network, 12 December 2012 |
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| Women rookies burn rubber on the track |
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| 8 December 2011 |
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| 20-year-old NTU undergraduate, Amirah Mokhtar is another local female driver who had completed Sepang 1,000km Endurance Race among others in a under-21 team. The race is part of the Red Bull Driver Search campaign which was expanded to Singapore earlier this year. |
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TODAY, page 62 |
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| Save the euro to avoid recession |
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| 2 December 2011 |
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| Prof Lim Chong Yah, Albert Winsemius Chair Professor of Economics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at NTU, in his article, wrote that Euro Central Bank still have time to act, to save the euro zone from a severe recession, with even more serious unemployment, and the world from rebounding into another Great Recession. The present Greek credit crisis is an integral part of the euro zone problem, and had Greece not been part of the euro zone , it would have found an independent solution to its credit problem. Options could have included a bail-out by its own central bank; and a possible credit default was avoidable. As Greece has no right of fiduciary issue, the ECB has a duty and a responsibility to come to the aid of Greece in a liquidity crisis. The euro zone should contain the sovereign credit crisis and metastasis itself as the sovereign credit problem is its own creation. |
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The Straits Times, page A21 |
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| In Memory of Khoo Seok Wan |
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| 1 December 2011 |
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| NTU Associate Professor Lee Guan Kin, Director of Centre for Chinese Language & Culture, wrote in Zaobao to commemorate Khoo Seok Wan (1874 – 1941), Singapore’s renowned literary scholar and poet. Khoo was a strong supporter of the Reformist Movement in China and founded progressive newspapers that advocated reform in China. He was one of the earliest Chinese-educated men to promote education for girls in Singapore. |
Read more in:
Lianhe Zaobao, page 28 |
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