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Book Synopsis We are Singaporeans: Volume 1 by : Various
Download or read book We are Singaporeans: Volume 1 written by Various and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing to do unconventional work is hard work, especially in a society that values sticking to the norms. In We Are Singaporeans Volume 1, we meet ten people who have gone against the grain with their career paths to achieve success in their respective fields. They are: - Anthony Chen, filmmaker - Cai Yinzhou, tour guide & activist - Bjorn Low, urban farmer - Eugenia Ong, medical researcher - Eunice Olsen, TV presenter, actress, communications trainer - Joanna Dong, singer, actress and host - Kim Whye Kee, potter - Siti Khalijah Zainal, theatre actress - Shabir Tabare Alam, music composer, singer, songwriter, actor - Verleen Goh and Alan Phua, foodtech entrepreneurs In this collection of interviews featuring stunning and evocative illustrations by popular artist Lee Xinli, find out how these remarkable individuals hustle for their work goals, overcome challenges and discouragement, and stay true to their passions and visions.
Book Synopsis We are Singaporeans (Vol 2) by : Melanie Lee
Download or read book We are Singaporeans (Vol 2) written by Melanie Lee and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Singaporeans Volume 2 continues to feature inspiring illustrated interviews of Singaporeans who have carved out unconventional work paths that align with their passions and values. While the interests and experiences are varied, the interviewees’ resourcefulness and resilience collectively bring hope and possibilities to youths or anyone who is wondering about their own journeys in life. The 13 people in this book are Wong Maye-e, Photojournalist Darius Lim, Choir conductor and composer Debby Ng, Wildlife ecologist and conservationist Martino Tan, Managing Editor of Mothership Felicia Low-Jimenez, Author & comics publisher Adib Jalal, Urbanist Sharul Channa, Stand-up comedian Jay Chua, Charis Chia & Yilina Leong of Fossa Chocolate Samantha Scott-Blackhall, Theatre director Kenneth and Adeline Thong of The Last Resort
Download or read book A Tiger Remembers written by Ann Wee and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family. One of Singapore’s pioneering social work educators, Ann shares her experiences frankly and with great humour. She remembers the things that history books leave out: questions of hygiene, the emotional nuance in social relations, stories of ghost wives and changeling babies, rural clan settlements and migrant dormitories, what was lost and gained when families moved into HDB estates. Affectionately observed and wittily narrated, with a deep appreciation of how far Singapore has changed, this book brings to life the country’s social transformation by talking about the family, “in its 101 different shapes and sizes, with its capacity to cope which ranges from truly marvellous to distinctly tatty: still, in one form or another, the best place for most of us to be”.
Book Synopsis The Naysayer’s Book Club: 26 Singaporeans You Need to Know by : Simon Vincent
Download or read book The Naysayer’s Book Club: 26 Singaporeans You Need to Know written by Simon Vincent and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 26 conversations with 26 naysayers, this book is aimed at reflecting the spectrum of naysaying in Singapore's civil society. Each person is interviewed against the backdrop of his or her bookcase, putting front and centre a life of ideas and imagination. This is a book club for curious minds. "We need more naysayers... We need to create new formulas, which you can't until you attack and challenge every sacred cow." — Kishore Mahbubani, former dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Featured: Tan Tarn How Constance Singam Tay Kheng Soon Yeoh Lam Keong Cherian George Claire Leow Remy Choo Zheng Xi Teo Soh Lung Thirunalan Sasitharan Jennifer Teo Dan Wong Chua Beng Huat Kirsten Han Filzah Sumartono Alex Au Martyn See June Chua William SW Lim M. Ravi Loo Zihan Vanessa Ho Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib Seelan Palay Sonny Liew Margaret Thomas Thum Ping Tjin
Download or read book The Singapore Wink written by Ross Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragic past traps a former Hollywood stuntman in a web of international intrigue—from “America’s best storyteller” (The New York Times Book Review). Two pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tumbling into the bay. This is how stuntman Angelo Sacchetti dies. Edward Cauthorne was his opponent, a fellow stuntman whose career died along with Sacchetti. He’s selling used cars when two thugs approach him. They’re emissaries from Sacchetti’s godfather, a Mafia don. Sacchetti is alive after all—alive enough to be blackmailing the don—and they firmly request that Cauthorne find him. The search takes Cauthorne back to Singapore, to risk his own life for the sake of the man he thought he’d killed.
Book Synopsis We are Singaporeans by : MELANIE. LEE
Download or read book We are Singaporeans written by MELANIE. LEE and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Little Singapore Book by : Ee Waun Sim
Download or read book The Little Singapore Book written by Ee Waun Sim and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Singapore’s Multiculturalism by : Chan Heng Chee
Download or read book Singapore’s Multiculturalism written by Chan Heng Chee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1965, Singapore has developed its own unique approach to managing the diversity of Race, Religion, Culture, Language, Nationality, and Age among its citizens. This approach is a consequence of many factors, including its very distinct ethnic makeup compared with its neighbours, its ambitions as a globally oriented city-state, and its small physical size. Each of these factors and many others have presented Singapore society with a range of challenges and opportunities, and will in all likelihood continue to do so for the foreseeable future. In the writing of this book, the author team set themselves the task of projecting the impact of current domestic and international social trends into the future, to anticipate what Singapore society might look like by around 2040. In doing so, they analyse the particular path that Singapore has taken since independence, in comparison with other multicultural societies and with regard to the balance between the necessity of forging a new national identity after British rule and departure from Malaysia, and the need to ensure that Singapore’s ethnic minority populations remain socially enfranchised. They further consider how current trends may develop over the next couple of decades, what new challenges this may present to Singapore society, and what might be the likely responses to such challenges. In this book, Singapore is a case study of a global city facing the challenges of developed-world modernity in frequently acute ways.
Book Synopsis Singapore Perspectives 2016: We by : Siao See Teng
Download or read book Singapore Perspectives 2016: We written by Siao See Teng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, Singapore celebrated 50 years of independence. The Institute of Policy took stock of how the choices people made have led the city-state to where she is today. As achievements are being celebrated, a conversation about the road ahead also begins. With much nation-building efforts premised upon the existence of this imagined community known as 'Singapore', it is an opportune moment to question and reimagine who 'we' are.The book documents the conference proceedings at Singapore Perspectives 2016 where the fourth generation of government ministers presented their thoughts on the social, economic and political future of Singapore and engaged in dialogues with panelists and audience members on the directions the country should take.
Book Synopsis The Binding Tie by : Kristina Göransson
Download or read book The Binding Tie written by Kristina Göransson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since gaining independence in 1965, Singapore has become the most trade-intensive economy in the world and the richest country in Southeast Asia. This transformation has been accompanied by the emergence of a deep generational divide. More complex than simple disparities of education or changes in income and consumption patterns, this growing gulf encompasses language, religion, and social memory. The Binding Tie explores how expectations and obligations between generations are being challenged, reworked, and reaffirmed in the face of far-reaching societal change. The family remains a pivotal feature of Singaporean society and the primary unit of support. The author focuses on the middle generation, caught between elderly parents who grew up speaking dialect and their own children who speak English and Mandarin. In analyzing the forces that bind these generations together, she deploys the idea of an intergenerational "contract," which serves as a metaphor for customary obligations and expectations. She convincingly examines the many different levels at which the contract operates within Singaporean families and offers striking examples of the meaningful ways in which intergenerational support and transactions are performed, resisted, and renegotiated. Her rich material, drawn from ethnographic fieldwork among middle-class Chinese, provides insights into the complex interplay of fragmenting and integrating forces. The Binding Tie makes a critical contribution to the study of intergenerational relations in modern, rapidly changing societies and conveys a vivid and nuanced picture of the challenges Singaporean families face in today’s hypermodern world. It will be of interest to researchers and students in a range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, Asian studies, demography, development studies, and family studies.
Book Synopsis We Are Not the Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore by : Cherian George
Download or read book We Are Not the Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore written by Cherian George and published by Ethos Books. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combination of deft manoeuvres and patient politics. Yet civil society is often unacknowledged, their skill and labour instead frequently misunderstood, even earning them the label of “troublemakers” or “enemies of the state”. This collection of essays and interviews is a candid reflection on the intentions, beliefs and strategies behind the practice of advocacy across a spectrum of causes. The contributors come from varying backgrounds and include academics, artists, lawyers, journalists, non-profit and advocacy organisations, student and community organisers. They share practical insights into their aims and community-building work, and the tactics they employ to overcome obstacles, shedding light on how to navigate a city-state with shifting socio-political fault lines and out-of-bound markers. With an introduction, “It is Time to Trim the Banyan Tree”, by Constance Singam, and a conclusion, “Their Struggle is Ours to Continue”, by Suraendher Kumarr.
Book Synopsis Regional Community Building in East Asia by : Lee Lai To
Download or read book Regional Community Building in East Asia written by Lee Lai To and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of papers written by nationals or former nationals of the respective country in ASEAN and Northeast Asia. Unlike other works written by scholars outside ASEAN or East Asia, it offers an insider’s point of view of the 10 ASEAN states, China, Japan and South Korea on regional community building. While a nationalist perspective may permeate throughout the study, it is also clear that pursuing regional cooperation is considered to be important by the respective author, denoting the non-exclusivity between nationalism and regionalism and the mutual reinforcement of the two. Each author of this volume has made a deliberate effort to introduce and survey the developmental challenges and experiences of his or her country from a historical perspective. All authors, without exception, have emphasized the importance and advantages in staying with ASEAN or linking up with ASEAN by China, Japan and South Korea in political-security, economic and socio-cultural terms. Their papers also reveal that the self-help and self-strengthening mechanism emphasized by the ASEAN Plus Three process will take time to bear fruits. In the meantime, it seems that bilateral interactions and cooperation between ASEAN and Northeast Asian states remain to be more dominant as shown in this study. One can argue that bilateral interactions are the building block of multilateralism interactions. To be sure, there is a deliberate effort in this study to highlight "unity in diversity" in East Asia in general and ASEAN in particular.
Download or read book Singapore written by Edwin Lee and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces and circumstances that shaped this nation. It tells of Britain's imperial visions and schemes, and of how their failure cast a shadow on the story of Singapore's incorporation into the Federation of Malaysia and expulsion from it.
Book Synopsis Can Singapore Survive by : Kishore Mahbubani
Download or read book Can Singapore Survive written by Kishore Mahbubani and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sound Of Memories, The: Recordings From The Oral History Centre, Singapore by : Suk-wai Cheong
Download or read book Sound Of Memories, The: Recordings From The Oral History Centre, Singapore written by Suk-wai Cheong and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and bittersweet — but always heartwarming and unforgettable — stories, memories and anecdotes of Singaporeans from all walks of life. Distilled from almost 5,000 interviews that the National Archives of Singapore's Oral History Centre has collected since 1979, these recordings describe the experiences of everyman, from tycoons and tailors to chief executive officers and chief cooks.Relive the significant moments that have unfolded in Singapore's history through the eyes of people who personally bore witness to these events. Their recollections are vividly captured in chapters on communities, schooldays, popular pastimes, the Japanese Occupation, food, national tragedies, medicine, economy, women, the performing arts and sports.
Book Synopsis Belonging to the Nation by : Edmund Terence Gomez
Download or read book Belonging to the Nation written by Edmund Terence Gomez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reviews developments in the ethnic and national identity of the descendants of migrants, taking ethnic Chinese as a case study. Our core question is why, in spite of debates worldwide about identity, exclusion and rights, do minority communities continue to suffer discrimination and attacks? This question is asked in view of the growing incidence in recent years of ‘racial’ conflicts between majority and minority communities and among minorities, in both developed and developing countries. The study examines national identity from the perspective of migrants’ descendants, whose national identity may be more rooted than is often thought. Concepts such as ‘new ethnicities’, ‘cultural fluidity’, and ‘new’ and ‘multiple’ identities feature in this examination. These concepts highlight identity changes across generations and the need to challenge and reinterpret the meaning of ‘nation’ and to review problems with policy initiatives designed to promote nation-building in multi-ethnic societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Book Synopsis Singapore Perspectives 2010 by : Tarn How Tan
Download or read book Singapore Perspectives 2010 written by Tarn How Tan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the broad policy discussions that animate thought leaders, policy-makers and the public in the country during the immediate period or that are likely to do so in the short and medium term.In this volume, contributors look at the short-term challenges that Singapore faces and the policy options open to the nation, and share their insights on Singapore society, politics and economics. Written by an ensemble of authors from a wide spectrum of Singapore society, this volume covers critical issues under the themes such as ?One United People?, ?One Grace Society? and ?One Global City?.Co-published by the think-tank, the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, this is a useful publication for those with an interest in understanding the governance challenges facing a small, highly globalised economy and nation-state, or those who want a quick feel of the pulse of Singapore.
