Singapore
Report
The report of the arts and culture strategic review
The Arts and Culture Strategic Review aims to guide Singapore's arts and culture blueprint from 2010 to 2025. This review shifts the focus for the next phase of cultural development to Singapore's people and society.
Report
Multidisciplinary arts: approaches to funding
Multidisciplinary arts are broad and inclusive, with an emphasis on the presence of more than one discipline, which may extend beyond the arts, thereby offering both problems and opportunities for their funding. This report, which summarises the findings of a D’art question developed and conducted by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Australia...
Conference paper
"Moving to the dark side or will the force be with us?”: Sustainability trends in transport in Australian and international cities, 1996-2006
This paper explores the differences in some key transport and land use factors in twenty-five metropolitan areas in the USA, Australia, Canada and Europe as well as Singapore in the year 2005-6.
Discussion paper
Governing Islam and regulating Muslims in Singapore's secular authoritarian state
Governance of Islam in Singapore has been strongly shaped by the authoritarian state's micro-management of nation-building, commanding influence of Islamic institutions such as the peak religious bureaucracy MUIS (Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura or Islamic Religious Council) and reliance on draconian legislation such as the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act (MRHA), Sedition Act and the Internal...
Discussion paper
Corruption by design? A comparative study of Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China
Corruption exists in every society, but the extent of corruption varies enormously among countries. Governments have taken up the challenge of reform to lessen the scope and severity of corruption. However, it is puzzling to see some countries are more successful than others, even if they have similar geographic, cultural and historical background. How the...