new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 10 so what on Sep 24th, 2011
Transcribed and compiled by Teng Siao See The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was established in 1985 as a non-profit organization that campaigns for gender equality through research and advocacy as well as through provision of social services for women. In March 2009, AWARE was briefly taken over by an evangelical conservative [...]
Posted in 8 intellectuals on Dec 23rd, 2010
Constance Singam I was in a taxi chatting with the driver, a Chinese man, when he spotted an Indian woman on the roadside. He points to her and says to me, ‘There’s your country woman’, and I tell him, ‘We are all from the same country; we are all Singaporeans’. ‘No’, he says, ‘Singapore belongs [...]
Posted in 1 inauguration on Apr 10th, 2007
Tan Jing Quee with a poem by Usman Awang and extracts from Said Zahari‘s memoirs Photograph of Linda Chen, December 1996, courtesy of Loh Miaw Ping Linda Chen passed away peacefully on 29th December 2002, four days after she suffered a stroke at her home at Hua Guan Avenue on Christmas Day. She was cremated [...]
