Students launch pre-emptive strike

SMU director of undergraduate admissions Alan Goh pointed out that SMU takes into account a student's achievements outside the classroom.

Social media marketing gaining ground

The local chapter of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) will be set up to promote investment in interactive advertising here and in the region…

Mapping out S'pore's economic strategies

The global economy offers both opportunities and threats. Singapore Management University Professor of Economics Hoon Hian Teck, outlines a few…

Dependable and Secure Computing

Research by Assistant Professor of Information Systems Gao Debin and colleagues provide new insights into dependable and secure computing. Their…

Reining in excessive hedge fund leverage

Visiting Practice Associate Professor Bernard Lee contributed a commentary on choices which policymakers have to rein in excessive hedge fund…

Home advantage lies at core of location debate

Melvyn Teo, Associate Professor of Finance [and director of the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at SMU] said that managers of Asian hedge funds with a…

Getting stamp of approval now easier for business schools

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) opened an office in Singapore last week and universities and private schools…

Efforts to promote arts are paying off

Incoming law student Eef Gerard Van Emmerik wrote about how impressed he was by the arts promotion movement in Singapore, having had a first hand…

Masked marauder in the midst

Reporter went on a holiday in Britain and France, wore N95 masks, ended up the receiving end of jeers and jibes and became sympathetic towards the…

800 people bare their soles for needy kids

Bare Your Sole 2009 ? Singapore 's first mass barefoot walk ? is organised by Habitat for Humanity, SMU and Victoria Junior College to aid needy…