CNA

CNA Explains: What Singapore's national wage guidelines are for

CNA's Davina Tham takes a closer look at what companies do with the salary guidance and how they influence behaviour despite not being legally binding.
TechNode

Singapore’s national AI program drops Meta model and switches to Alibaba’s Qwen

Singapore’s national AI program has moved its Sea-Lion large language model off Meta’s model family and adopted Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen architecture, ...
Monocle

This year’s evolution of Singapore’s National Day song shows how the young country’s identity is shifting

Singapore turns 60 years old on 9 August. To celebrate, 27,000 people will gather at the Padang, a downtown athletics field close to Parliament House, for the annual National Day Parade. As the ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore

After 60 years of Singapore's nationhood, multiculturalism has become its defining trait - but not without some house rules

What comes to mind when you think of a nation with a strong identity? Perhaps Japan, not just for its ancient temples and bamboo forests, tea ceremonies and sushi, but also its society's deep respect ...
The Conversation

Singapore’s national identity excludes those who don’t look like a ‘regular family’

Nationalism usually works on the basis that a nation should imagine itself as a “we”, with a common identity, history and culture. But it doesn’t always clearly say who the “we” are. Instead, it often ...