When late calligrapher and poet Pan Shou called for NTU to be renamed simply as Nanyang University in 1998, he saw it as a way to “quieten the hearts of many”, reflecting a desire among some Nantah alumni to see the old name of their alma mater brought back. Full story

With engineering at its core, NTU should be the university with exciting interfaces between different disciplines rather than follow a comprehensive model like Harvard or Berkeley said NTU Provost Bertil Andersson. Full story

Despite the tightening of belts from the economic slowdown, this has not stopped the increasing number of youths leading extravagant lifestyles with their supplementary credit card. Full story

For someone who is critical of the government for being deaf to its citizen’s opinions, especially in the past, the leader of Singapore’s largest opposition political party, The Workers’ Party (WP), is ironically half-deaf himself. As Mr Low Thia Khiang puts on his hearing aids at the start of … Full story

At the height of the debate over Section 377A of the Penal Code, Member of Parliament Baey Yam Keng spoke up against the law banning homosexual sex. If Parliament took a vote on the issue, he would vote to… Full story