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The Carpentries is a global community teaching data science and computational skills to librarians, researchers in academia, industry and government. The various initiatives include Library Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry. Organisations interested in upskilling their staff may conduct Carpentries workshops based on openly available lesson materials and customise the content according to their needs and audiences. The first Library Carpentry workshop was jointly organised by LAS and Nanyang Technological University Libraries in June 2019 in Singapore. Inspired by the success of the workshop in cultivating data skills in librarians, Monash Malaysia Library planned to organise a similar set of in-person workshops in October 2020 as a collaborative project with international instructors and helpers from Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. However, due to the COVID-19 crisis shortly after, Monash University Malaysia Library decided to shift to online mode to deliver the workshops. Although the team was inexperienced in conducting Carpentry workshops online, they managed to accomplish two rounds of successful and well received online Library Carpentry Workshops in 2020, covering data skills on regular expression, tidy data, OpenRefine and SQL. Participants mainly consist of Singapore and Malaysian librarians, and a few others with international origin. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the challenges faced by the team, e.g. maintaining the hands-on and interactive Carpentry approach with the online mode of delivery. We will also share the feedback from the participants as well as the learnings and take-aways. The collaboration benefitted the newly certified instructors from Singapore and Malaysia who gained confidence and experience through working side by side with the highly experienced Carpentries instructors from Australia and New Zealand. This collaboration proved that joint events can be effectively carried out in an online environment and demonstrates the flexibility of international collaborations without crossing the borders.

The research investigates the Singapore model and mainland China model in terms of its' GDP development. It covers ideologies, methods and reasons for government interventions, the roles of state-owned businesses and the issues of labor in accordance to the different stages of GDP development. The interventions from the governments that caused the market to rebound and resilience are found in two countries. The article also redefines the developmental state as unlimited methods and ideologies under a government-led economic development economy.

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Moving to a new country to live is difficult, having to adapt to the culture and new environment. Most people settle down nicely but a handful don't get used to their newly adopted home. Here then are stories of foreigners in Singapore who behave badly; committing murder, financial scams, vandalism and more. Read about the domestic helper who murdered her employer, the Swiss IT consultant who vandalised an MRT train, the Bangladeshi worker who killed his Indonesian girl friend as well as the Romanian diplomat involved in a hit and run accident. Ignorance of Singaporean law does not save you fr

This article discusses the role of Singapore in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its efforts to add value to and complement China's forays into the BRI region. Although Singapore does not have any major BRI-related infrastructure projects on its shores, it is an important regional financing hub and plays a pivotal role as a gateway to the Southeast Asia region, which is a key part of the Maritime Silk Road. Singapore possesses an outstanding business environment that enables it to facilitate investments into Southeast Asia, into which many BRI-related investments are flowing. (China/GIGA)

This policy report explores how the Fourth Industrial Revolution will impact Singapore in the years to come. Specifically, it attempts to identify what social, economic, political and security implications this profound shift will have for the city-state. It then discusses how Singapore can cope with this uncertain future. The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to the convergence of a set of disruptive technologies that will transform the world in the coming decades. This assortment of novel technologies includes artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), 3D printing, drones and autonomous vehicles (AVs). While some of these technologies remain under development, the scientists, researchers and engineers working on them are on the verge of major breakthroughs so we may well see many of these technologies becoming a part of our daily lives in the not-too-distant future.

Drawing on a digital ethnography and in-depth interviews conducted with low-wage migrant workers in hyper-precarious working conditions amidst ongoing neoliberal transformations in India and Singapore, this manuscript offers a comparative framework for examining the limits of pandemic communication. Interrogating the ideology of behaviourism that forms the dominant approach, the narratives point to the organizing role of structures as sites of labour exploitation. The exploitative labour conditions constitute the backdrop amidst which the migrant workers negotiate their health and well-being.