Serving Singapore: My Journey
By Karen Yap Singapore’s “miraculous” transformation from a Third world to First world nation is an oft-repeated aphorism, often accompanied by a paen to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, Mr…
Continue readingBy Karen Yap Singapore’s “miraculous” transformation from a Third world to First world nation is an oft-repeated aphorism, often accompanied by a paen to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, Mr…
Continue readingBy Jolyn Tay Did you know that Singapore was once called the “Queen of Far Eastern Seas”, or that Fort Canning was called “the Forbidden Hill”? How did colonial…
Continue readingBy Jolyn Tay Borneo and the Indian Archipelago: with drawings of costume and scenery is a narrative of the proceedings of Her Majesty’s vessel, H.M.S. Samarang, during her last…
Continue readingBy Tim Yap Fuan Kenneth Paul Tan’s Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew is a thought-provoking analysis of the political and social dynamics of Singapore’s…
Continue readingBy Jolyn Tay The Malayan Medical Journal is a quarterly scientific record that seeks to journal and archive observations about the occurrence of diseases in Singapore and Malaysia and…
Continue readingBy Nur Diyana NUS Libraries has recently acquired the works of Syed Sheikh Ahmad Al-Hadi, published in the early twentieth century. This collection of primary source materials contains 7…
Continue readingBy Amy Lin The Global Chinese World: Ethnicity, Personalities, and Politics (海外华人世界:族群,人物与政治) explores the ethnic identity of overseas Chinese, contributions made by prominent overseas Chinese personalities and how events…
Continue readingThis book tells the story of Singapore – how an island and a people with limited resources turned vulnerability into strength, with human ingenuity and good engineering — Lee Hsien…
Continue readingNanyang is the Chinese term for the region of South-East Asia during the period of massive Chinese emigration starting in the 1640s. The Story of Nanyang (南洋故事) is a Chinese…
Continue readingHello from NUS Libraries, This blog article is a follow-up to the previous one which provides an overview of Early Voyages and Travels in Southeast Asia, a new exhibition on…
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