Essays on Singapore

Singapore is one of the world’s most prosperous nations. Despite an active parliamentary opposition, it has been ruled by one party, the People’s Action Party. Singapore is a small, heavily urbanised, island city-state in Southeast Asia, located at the end of the Malayan Peninsula between...

Grace Fu, the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, said in a statement: “Over the last 50 years, we have built a Singapore where every citizen matters, regardless of race, language or religion. This has been our fundamental approach to nation-building and will continue to...

Online falsehoods have been spreading rapidly in Singapore’s media ever since the creation of internet. It is a negative voice, thought, comment or an attack that someone opinionate to a person or an organization. It is demonstrated falsely which can cause a significant impact such...

Social media has become part of Singaporeans’ lives. Citizens aged between youths and adults have at least own an account in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or WhatsApp. It is no doubt that these interactive technologies have enable us to be connected with people from far distance,...

The belief in ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’ dates back many generations in Chinese belief and health is said to be the balance of both Yin and Yang in the body. Similarly, the beliefs of many Malays (25%) and Indians (11%) in the community in indigenous medicine...

History Clementi located at the west region of Singapore. The name of ‘Clementi’ came from ‘Clementi Road’. In the past, this road was named after the first British High Commissioner whose name is Sir Cecil Clementi Smith. Demographic Data According to 2010 Singapore national statistics...

Introduction The Singapore Land Use Plan 2030 is a conceptual plan that serves to set out the broad developmental direction for Singapore over the next 40-50 years. The Concept Plan review, carried out in 2011, included discussions undertaken by the National Population and Talent Division...

My visit to the National Museum was an insightful and enriching one. In this essay, I will highlight some of my key takeaways from the “Modern Colony” exhibit and how they have helped to better my own understanding of Singapore’s history. The main themes explained...

One of reasons why Singapore withholds psychedelic drug therapy could be due to its potential deleterious effects on individuals and society alike. However, it has been shown that majority of the safety concerns have been fallacious. A population study comprising of 130,000 individuals found no...

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a French Sociologist renowned for his influence on sociology. Some theories that he founded would include the collective conscience and the idea of ‘Anomie’, which still holds relevance in our society. This essay attempts to analyse an article regarding stress experienced...

Life-turning opportunity When people ask me why I come to Singapore to study at the age of 15 alone, I tried to avoid telling them that I am a scholar. Partially that is because I don’t want to sound like bragging about the scholarship. To...

Singapore’s history to me was always about chaos, hawkers and brotherhood. The Modern Colony exhibition gave me new insights on Singapore’s rich history, mainly on how technological advancements and modernity have led to progress and development for Singapore. Singapore’s past, especially in terms of fashion,...

National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has been part of a controversial topic in Singapore during the early 2000s and previously made headlines for not the best of reasons. In spite of its notable contributions towards helping kidney failure patients and the needy, there were perennial problems...

What does the touristic market look like for Singapore? This chapter focuses on the external environment of Singapore and what different areas of the country look like. There will also be a focus on what the touristic elements of Singapore are and whether Singapore is...

On the one hand, the Urban Redevelopment Authority and Land Transport Authority speak glowingly about how the government wants the community playing a more active role in steering Singapore towards becoming a car-lite society. On the other hand, they can’t seem to shake off the...

Health issue Did you know that Singapore is ranked the second-highest overweight country according to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at 32. 8 per cent by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014? As published in the World Health Organisation website, “worldwide obesity...

Free Trade Agreement (FTAs) are treaties between two or more economies to reduce or remove trade barriers and bring economic integration. As a country with open economy, Sri Lanka has also involved FTAs aligning with economic developments, especially in international trade. More recently, Sri Lanka...

The differences in the acute ward management practices of Australia and Singapore The preparations need to be done in Singapore before a surgical operation performing on a patient like Ben are included: MRI, CT Scan, laparoscopic camera and telescope (with diff degree angles), Laparascopic system....

How have OB markers surrounding the topic of homosexuality shifted over time? Out-of-bound markers, or OB markers, will be defined in this essay as an arbitrary framework that denotes what is permissible for public discussion in the Singapore context. Rather than what is stipulated in...