Lifestyle and Culture
Archives 2000 - 2002
Marriage
Looking
abroad for a spouse
A woman's plea for government
help to stop Singaporean men marrying foreign women spark
off nation-wide debate on a new phenomenon. By Seah Chiang
Nee.
Nov 26, 2002
Joo
Chiat nightmare
While Singaporean behaviour
is generally not extreme, there is a little bit of the flaunting,
looking-down-on-others trait in every one of us. By Seah
Chiang Nee.
Nov 16, 2002
Hairdos
signal the change
In the past three years,
a robust new spirit of independence stalks the island revisited
by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, a former senior editor of Indian
Stateman.
Oct 17, 2002
Teen
Asia
How
it differs from West
Coca-Cola showed 30 US-created
ads, movie clips aimed at Asia to a panel of Singaporean
teens, testing everything from extreme to borderline boring.
Surprising reaction. Cris Prystay, Asian Wall Street Journal
Oct 11, 2002
Lifestyle
A
few little Bohemias
This
is what leaders want to see in their city, but young ones
who know what it entails say it's not possible. It's too
materialistic. By Seah Chiang Nee.
Sept 28, 2002
Singapore
- culture
A
new era
Despite
the slump and terror threats, the cirty is spending billions
on its softer development - the arts and sports for good
reasons. By Seah Chiang Nee
Sept 17, 2002
Singapore - National Day
Dealing
with a dampener
A
country's greatness depends on how its people behave in
times of crisis and danger. In Singapore, there's no sign
of greatnerss. By Seah Chiang Nee
Aug 12, 2002
Professional
degrees
They're
good only if you...
First medicine,
later maybe architecture. Is Singapore entering an era where
professional degrees are valid only if you continue to learn?
By Seah Chiang Nee
Aug 4, 2002
Deregulation
It's
great, but also worrying
Few societies have more rules
than Singapore. Now in an era of fast, risky changes they
are steadily being reduced to give people more choices;
not everyone is celebrating.
May 30, 2002
Singapore
gets to
the art of the matter
The
city has a new look - bright and upbeat, and cost $600 million
that can market the future. By Impy Pilapil, The Philippine
STAR
Apr 28, 2002
Excessive
Gloom
Once
considered an asset, Singapore's national habit of excessive
worrying and "talking up" its problems is adding
to its woes. It is building up an undeserved reservoir of
pessimism.
Apr 22, 2002
Poking
fun at society
For the first time a film,
produced by a government-own studio, pokes fun at some official
policies and the way parents pressurise their kids to score
marks.
Feb 25, 2002
Distress
over mistress
The
courts are delivering a blow to an already declining practice
of keeping mistresses.
Jan
9, 2002
Money
first, romance later
IN a society where money
often ranks higher than romance, sociologists - and the
government - are watching to see how the current economic
crisis is affecting marriage and divorce.
Dec 19, 2001
Bowling,
Karaoke and Social blocks
In
USA, 10-pin bowling is a social activity that brings millions
of people together; a part of nation-building. Can karaoke
be our social builder?
May 22, 2001
Regulations
The
Savvy move around them
A
new breed of Singaporeans always trying to beat the system,
the state's innumerable regulations. They're against top
brains.
Feb 7, 2001
Our
Slip is Showing
It
seems that more things are going wrong in public, more accidents,
less efficiency. A big change for an island known for excellence
Is this trend irreversible?
Jan 16, 2001
Sleepless
In Singapore
The
lives of many young Singaporeans are being turned upside
down. Simply too many things to do and so little time. Something
has to give.
Jan 8, 2001
Movies
- Titanic Size Obstacles
Making
Singapore the film hub of the region. That was the dream
10 years ago. Today it is fading. Here's why.
Dec 14, 2000
Larger
Dose of Japan
Where
its army failed 50 years ago, its culture Is succeeding.
Tokyo is winning the minds of Singaporean youths and is
closing the gap with USA. .
Sept 10, 2000
