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Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Originally a backwater swamp housing the Ying ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010–Present) was the Institute of Policy ...

Description The Little Book of Singapore Food Illustrated invites you to explore the colourful variety of food that makes up the Singaporean pa...

Description About the Authors From January 2021, author Woon Tai Ho started to meet PN Balji for breakfast every Monday morning. What began as ...

Description Photographer Steve Golden set off to find Singapore’s remaining heritage shops—family run businesses that are multi-generational an...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (81 KB)Lecture 1: Politics and Governance (261 KB) The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was la...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description About the Author How does a certified accountant become an artist? How did the world of finance instruct his art to make him the un...

Description Praise About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Tucked away in the East is a sleeping g...

Description About the Authors Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is ...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |    Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Home to the beloved Chomp Chomp Food Centre a...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Little India, often called Tekka, is popular w...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore...

Description Some praise it as a national treasure. Others tag it as the people’s supermarket. Many simply call it “NTUC.” While NTUC FairPrice ...

Description Praise About the Editors Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combin...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description What are the issues which one would consider important for a country? This is a question most citizens would ask as they head into ...

Description About the Author The history of Asia can be told through its great port cities: Guangzhou (Canton), Shanghai, Nagasaki, Basra, Aden...

Description Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for...

Description Praise About the Authors and Photographer Shortlisted for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Colvin Prize 2...

Description About the Author Singapore: small tropical island and dynamic city, where some of Asia’s tallest buildings tower over modest quaysi...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Rise to the top in the art of hiring. Navigate the headhunting landscape...

Description Once the centre of trade and commerce connecting Singapore to the rest of the Malay Archipelago, Kampong Gelam served as a religio...

Description Now released in a new, convenient and handy size, Over Singapore: 50 Years Ago is a view of old Singapore from a new angle. Many of...

Description About the Authors This fully revised and updated identification guide to 280 bird species, including all resident and regular migra...

Description About the Author It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unp...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Since pre-independence days, Geylang Serai has...

Description Praise About the Photographer With an introduction by Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (Translated from the French by Kevin J. M. Keane) ...

Description About the Author Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling poli...

Description About the Author This beautiful photo book leads the reader on a visual and historical journey around Singapore’s Chinatown and its...

Description About the Author The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published...

Description The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in ...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description A History Of Money In Singapore covers the history of money in Singapore from pre-colonial times to the present day, narrating the ...

Description About the Author This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore s...

Description About the Authors Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-ima...

Description About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...

Description Articles by SilverStreak, Storm-Asia and Johor Kaki Featured in tabla!, Vasantham News, and The Straits Times: 20 July and 21 July ...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (106 KB)Lecture I: Hunting Black Swans and Taming Black Elephants: Governance in a Compl...

Description The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially du...

Description About the Author The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and ...

Description About the Author Read a sample chapter Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 na...

Description Chapteh, congkak, hopscotch and five stones..Do these names ring a bell? This book takes you back in time to the 1950s and 1960s fo...

Description About the Author From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...

About the Author This new book by Artist and Illustrator Lorette. E Roberts is a pictorial travelogue of her sketches, comments and paintings o...

Description About the Authors This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles o...

Description Praise About the Editor Look inside the bookSince 2015, Mekong Review has provided a fresh perspective on Asian histories, lives ...