Society and Social Sciences

Description About the Author By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public healt...

Description This title commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Tan Kah Kee Foundation.

Description Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? ...

Description About the Author Western Etiquette covers the essential of presenting oneself, from issuing and replying to formal invitations, dea...

Description Since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which in turn, ...

Description This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

Description About the Authors Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unli...

Description About the Editor This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system...

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

Description The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949–1978) and Deng's Ch...

Description How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description About the Author The COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and will continue to cause, great disruptions to lives, livelihoods, ways of lif...

Description About the Editors The European Union is the most successful regional organisation in the world. ASEAN is the most successful region...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's ...

Description About the Editor This book celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), a political dialogue process bringing tog...

Description About the Authors There have been broad-based growth in wealth for cities all over the world, albeit increasingly unequal within an...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asian Competitiveness Institute (ACI), updated annually to analyse Indon...

Description About the Authors After more than three decades of rapid growth, China is now entering into the New Normal Era, which will be chara...

Description About the Authors This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) presents the inaugural regional competitiveness analysis fo...

Description About the Editors 50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations: Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe is one contribution to th...

Description About the Authors With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again. Having bra...

This is the 1st China's Science Yearbook published since 1949. It covers events, activities and progresses in various fields of science and technol...

Description This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, deve...

Description Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, al...

Description Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical r...

Description About the Editor In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Enviro...

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

Description In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishm...

Description About the Author This book is a 25-year milestone celebration of DAS' efforts in creating awareness for dyslexia and providing qual...

Description About the Editor This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, a...

Description The aim of this book is to encourage Singaporeans to give back to society and this applies not only to the wealthy but also to ever...

Description About the Editor Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact w...

Description About the Author Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information. It trans...

Description Positive experiences in daily lives enhance people's well-being and motivate them to do well and help others. Therefore, it is impo...

Description This book pays tribute to 25 Singaporean South Asians who pioneered and excelled in their respective fields from 1950 to 2015. It i...

Description Based on seven years of original research, this book contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive assessments of 'home-grown...

Description This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asian...

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description About the Editors Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies wer...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description This book details the findings of a large-scale survey on the values and lifestyles of 1500 Singapore residents in 2001. Semi-struc...

Description “儿童”是建构历史和文化的重要概念及方法。 本论文集以战后新马地区出版和发行的儿童期刊以及教科书等为主要研究对象，结合口述采访、本地书局历史和原始档案资料，在将“南洋儿童”概念历史化的同时，重点分析其发展变化与本地区新兴的反殖民话语、民族国家的兴起、新马与香港之...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description Praise About the Authors Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected bus...

Description About the Author Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses and lesbian lovers—it was all in a day’s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warr...

Herman Hochstadt, or hrh as he is better known, joined the civil service in 1959, moving to the position of secretary to Lee Kuan Yew’s Prime Minis...