This issue of Newzzit is a multifaceted one. We have stories related to law, history, foreign policy, higher education, and gender inside. There is also a photo-essay about Vietnam, which its citizens proudly call as “the last power to beat a super-power”.
Read MoreThree law professors in a recently released book have called upon the legislature to amend and give Singapore a modernised Penal Code for the 21st century
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A trip down the memory lane to a lesser known fact of life in Singapore, just over 25 years ago – the night-soil bucket system
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“Is there a feminised symbol of a nation more globally recognised than the Singapore Girl?” asks Chris Hudson in his recent thought-provoking book, Beyond the Singapore Girl: Discourses of gender and nation in Singapore, published by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen.
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As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this issue, we take our readers to Vietnam via few pictures.
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Giving the state of affairs now, its difficult to believe that Singapore was the last country in ASEAN to formalize relations with China in 1990, shortly after Indonesia did so
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As Singapore's two oldest universities rise up in international university rankings, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently joined the debate on relevance of such rankings
Read MoreA poster found in the heartlands nowadays emphasizing that Singapore will be less reliant on foreign workers in future resulting in more jobs and better salaries for Singaporeans
Read MoreHas The Strait Times settled the debate on six-month log saga of whether "public bodies" can sue citizens in Singapore
Read MoreSurprisingly, a recent crime alert posted in Jurong had the notification in Thai too, along with the usual English, Mandarin, Tamil and Bengali
Read MoreSingh's pertinent points on the state of education system in Singapore are a lone case or indicative of a wide-spread problem?
Read More2012 marked the 70th anniversary of beginning of Second World War in South-east Asia and the fall of Singapore to Japanese in February, 1942; this has brought into limelight the role Indian National Army (INA) and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose played as a “Japanese collaborator” in Malaya (present-day Malaysia and Singapore)
Read MoreEven with institutionalised mechanisms such as Tripartism and Workfare in place, wages are either stagnating or even declining in some cases, raising questions over chances of social mobility in Singapore
Read MoreIn spite of the government's stated efforts “to achieve economic growth driven by sustained productivity improvements rather than manpower growth”, the productivity growth remains negative for the first half of 2013, to add to the contraction in 2012
Read MoreWill the progressive wage model (PWM) and mandatory licensing of cleaning firms make any difference remains to be seen
Read MoreWith new rules in place mandating priority to citizens for job openings, how does such framework works in other countries is worthy a look
Read MoreThe National Service (NS) issue remains a contentious one in Singapore with survey after surveys throwing up interesting questions rather than providing answers
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