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Youth Exchange Program: Asean Youth and the Revolving Regional Architecture
Posted April 15, 2013 by seayouthsayso
The ASEAN Studies Center of Chulalongkorn University (ASC) is now calling for students who are studying in universities in ASEAN Member Countries to join the ASEAN Youth Exchange Program entitled “ASEAN Youth &The Evolving Regional Architecture”. The ASEAN Youth Exchange Program will be held on 15-25 May 2013 at Chulalongkorn University. The participating youths will [...]
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FREE THE THIRTEEN: Call to Action
Posted October 8, 2012 by seayouthsayso
Freedom of expression is not a crime! Yet, thirteen peace activists in Myanmar have been charged by police and could face 10 years jail time for leading peaceful marches on 21st September 2012, which also marked UN’s International Peace Day. Despite a political reform, human rights and ethnic disputes remain key issues in Myanmar. These [...]
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Is your Singapore Work Permit authentic?
Posted September 10, 2012 by seayouthsayso
The following was first posted by Adrianna Tan on her blog. This is an important message that should be shared with as many people as possible, and it would be incredibly helpful if it could be translated into different languages and shared on other networks. If you are able to translate it into any of [...]
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Some sites for (no or few strings attached) scholarships
Posted September 10, 2012 by Ian Chong
This comes out of a conversation with Kirsten Han about informing people about scholarship opportunities around the world. Apart from officially-funded or -sanctioned channels, scholarship opportunities are available from a variety of philanthropic and academic sources, as well as NGOs. Here are some sites that provide some basic information to begin a search for academic [...]
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Our Very Own Stories: Singapore’s LGBT share their experiences
Posted August 29, 2012 by Kirsten Han
“Who you are attracted to is really just a small part of your personality. The acceptance of others have taught me that it’s more important to work on being a decent person, because that is the yardstick which most people will judge you by.” Faces look down on you from the walls of The Factory [...]
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The Language Woes of a Young Singaporean
he elderly gentleman smiled at me, gesturing to my name tag with his wine glass. “Oh, you’re a Han too, like me. You should come join the Han Clan, we have trips back to Hainan Island. You speak Hainanese?” “No, I don...
A Magical Encounter with Sagada
“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated.” – Paulo Coelho My idea of an awe-inspiring place is Sagada – dubbed as “The Shangri-la of the North”, a fifth-class municipality found in the cla...
Davao Readers Haven
Images by Bam Baraguir of Mindanao Times This article was first published in Our Mindanao. Technology offers us the opportunity to read books via electronic devices like Kindle and iPad, but we readers would still prefer rea...
A Vegan Day Out!
In Singapore, vegetarian food is characterized by the variety of mock meat products available. The most common mock meat products are usually made from soya beans and mushroom. There is also seafood mock meat products availabl...
Flooding and destruction in Cambodia
Man is strong, he can create modern technology, but recently he has been hit by natural disaster. Some countries along the Mekong River — Cambodia, Thailand and China — are challenged with natural flooding. This year, Cambo...