Mediacast | Singapore Management University

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Stewardship in an Uncomfortable World

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SMU President's Inaugural Address 2019

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Goh Chok Tong

ESM Goh Chok Tong tells DNA how he overcame his reluctance and became the second Prime Minister of Singapore. He believes in consultative, participative decision-making approach, which differs from his political mentor, Mr Lee Kuan Yew. He dealt with leaders of regional countries in his adaptive and pragmatic style.

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Goenawan Mohamad

Goenawan Mohamad is the founder of Indonesia's Tempo magazine and a leading voice of democracy in the country. As founding editor, Mr Goenawan had to make the tough call of whether to continue Tempo's critical reporting of the government and face a ban, or toe the line to ensure survival. DNA talks to him about how he came to his decision and stuck to his principles, as well as his take on the many Indonesian leaders he has observed.

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George Yeo

George Yeo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs who became a business leader, speaks to DNA about his philosophical Taoist worldview, the impact of the rise of China, and the challenges facing ASEAN at its 50th year. He talks on how the soft power of ASEAN's policy of non-interference has yield some successes.

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Research @ SMU School of Law

Law, whether as a discipline or a profession, is in a state of flux. The SMU School of Law strives to be a law school that anticipates and embraces change in a rapidly evolving world, without losing sight of the moral imperatives, the need for integrity, and the essential role the noble legal profession plays in society. In this video, A/Prof Goh Yihan, Dean of the School of Law, and Prof Gary Chan, Associate Dean (Faculty Matters & Research), share more about the School of Law's…

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Social Analytics

It is estimated that there are now 3.48 billion users of Online Social Networks (OSNs) in 2019, engaging in a plethora of social and professional interactions. These interactions provide researchers with underlying data that can be analysed to gain useful insights about individuals, communities and societies. In this video, Professor Lim Ee Peng shares highlights from his research and how he develops models and algorithms that can help us better understand user behaviour, and the research and…

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Rural Transition in China

In the past two to three decades, amidst a backdrop of changing food demand, sustained transfer of rural labour into urban jobs, decline of the natural birth rate in the rural population, rural development and politics in China entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls ‘agricultural modernisation’. Transformation of the once-dominant smallholding, family-based agriculture has become a focal point of the Chinese government's programme of rural…