Wednesday, 11 March 2015

TODAY

This was a report on the “Singapore at 50: Reflections and Visions” Symposium jointly organised by the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Singapore Research Nexus, Social and Policy Research Cluster and the Department of Political Science on 10 March 2015. The speakers included Ms Chia Yong Yong, President of SPD and Nominated Member of Parliament; Mr Dominic Tan, Head of WeCare@MarineParade; and Ms Sumytra Menon, Senior Assistant Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. They reflected on Singapore over the past 50 years and what can be expected in the next 50. The symposium was attended by about 60 students, researchers and representatives from the public and non-profit organisations.