Voices of Youth: A Conversation on Employment
By Nabilah Mohammad THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE Today’s young people are the most educated generation ever. They often enter the working world with considerably more years of schooling than their parents or grandparents. In Singapore today, more than 95 percent of each...
Narrowing the Generational Gap
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq One of the most discussed topics in school while I was growing up was the ‘generation gap’. It used to be about communicating with parents or those older than us, or on new technologies used by us versus those used by older folks, the...
Golongan muda terlalu memilih kerja?
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Voices of Youth: A Conversation on Employment
The study is initiated on the premise that there is a need for a more nuanced understanding of the ways youths view their own circumstances, particularly as a Malay/Muslim youth in Singapore. The objective is to gather insights into youth perceptions and experiences. By understanding the pathways of influence through which attitudes and values are proliferated, the study hopes to adduce the necessary information for stakeholders to design new programmes and adapt proven interventions for youth development.
In the Valley of Dreams with Zannath Bee
Silicon Valley is the centre for innovative technology and home to more than 2,000 tech companies. High-valued tech companies such as Google, Apple, eBay and PayPal, among others, have greatly contributed to America’s reputation as a global leader in technology...
The COVID-19 Frontliners: Soldiering against the Pandemic
By Nabilah Mohammad THE WORLD REMADE BY COVID-19Just a few months ago, the Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19, was unheard of, but now, almost every continent is battling the virus. The disease is an infectious one caused by a newly discovered coronavirus...
Classical Malay Texts: Of Relevance and Reverence
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq William Shakespeare – a figure so far away from us here in Singapore, and yet we are well familiar with his works: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to name a few. Similarly, Islamic scholar Imam Al-Ghazali,...
Hydrocarbon Exploration with Erza Aripin
This interview was also published in Karyawan, A Magazine by AMP Singapore, April 2020, Volume 5, Issue 2. There has been an increasing demand for oil and gas as global economies and infrastructure continue to rely heavily on petroleum-based products. The oil and gas...
Graduates of Institutes of Higher Learning: Surviving the Future
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim Amid news of the threat posed by COVID-19 to an already ailing global economy plagued by the US-China trade war and deglobalisation, the announcements made by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat when he delivered the...
Living +ly: Persons Living with HIV among the Malay/Muslim Community
By Nabilah Mohammad The shadow of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has hung over the world for years, but a lot has changed since the first version of antiretroviral therapy (ART) was introduced in the late 1980s. To...
Graduates of Institutes of Higher Learning: Surviving the Future
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim Amid news of the threat posed by COVID-19 to an already ailing global economy plagued by the US-China trade war and deglobalisation, the announcements made by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat when he delivered the...
Living +ly: Persons Living with HIV among the Malay/Muslim Community
By Nabilah Mohammad The shadow of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has hung over the world for years, but a lot has changed since the first version of antiretroviral therapy (ART) was introduced in the late 1980s. To...
Rise of Religious and Ethnic Nationalism: A Singaporean Muslim Perspective
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq A simple scroll on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram can generate mixed reactions within a few seconds. You can see a cute GIF image of cats, and in the next post, a disheartening article shared by one of your...
Invisible Diversity: Lived Experiences of Malay Rental Flat Occupants
By Nabilah Mohammad Most Singaporeans desire a home to call their own, however, there are inevitably marginal segments of society who encounter obstacles to having access to home ownership and, require assistance with this. For them, the government has provided...
Opposites Attract: Experiences of Muslim-Non-Muslim Couples Seeking Civil Union
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq “You can’t choose who you want to fall in love with.” An interviewee shared this to reflect the realities of love and marriage. Nonetheless, this ‘absence’ of choice may cause some issues due to differing expectations and requirements in a...
A Budget 2020 Wish List For Social Development
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim The difficulty in coming up with a budget wish list when one is in the social service sector is that it would almost certainly entail proposals that would add to government expenditure. It would be ingenious to achieve the goal of...
Mothering Solo – Unwed Mothers in the Malay/Muslim Community
By Nabilah Mohammad Raising a child is no easy feat. We often hear about the sacrifices a parent makes and the time and energy it takes to care for a child. A single mother’s responsibilities are no different, except that she is on her own. She has to be both a mother...
Developing a New Generation of Asatizah
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq The asatizah community in Singapore is one that is well-regarded by the Muslim community here. Asatizah, is the plural form of Ustaz or Ustazah in Arabic, and generally refers to Islamic religious teachers. Their purpose is to provide religious...
“This is the Choice I Made”: Lived Experiences of Malay Women Staying in an Abusive Marriage
By Nurshirah Tabrani Singapore society is plagued with incidences of intimate partner violence[1] (IPV). From 2012 to 2018, more than 70% of those who filed for Personal Protection Order (PPO) or Expedited Order (EO) or Domestic Exclusion Order (DEO) in Singapore are...
National Day Rally Speech 2019: The Goodies and the Problems
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong delivered his seventh consecutive National Day Rally (NDR) speech this year at the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) College Central. The annual speech was moved to the present venue in 2013 after...
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