Society

By Zenith, Editor *Disclaimer: Some TikTok videos are referenced in this article, and we have added acknowledgements at the end to...

By Alamelu, Editor The 2022 Australian Open started on January 17th, 2022. On January 16th, the man who has won the most Australian Open...

By Rishika Ghanamoorthy, NUSPA Social Policy Division Life after sport is a scary thing for many competitive athletes. Many athletes plan...

By Kai Ting, Editor In 2018, intimate videos of local entrepreneur and content creator ​​Ms Christabel Chua and her ex-boyfriend Mr Joal...

By Eldrick, Editor From 2 May 2021, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) started gathering public feedback about a...

By Alamelu, Editor Introduction On August 29, 2021, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong dedicated an entire section of his National...

By Kai Ting, Editor In March 2021, China unveiled its fourteenth Five-Year Plan that outlined the country’s strategic blueprint for the...

By Leney Ang, Senior Editor With the inception of any newly formed nation, big families were considered a threat to prosperity. [1] In...

By Wayde Chan, Editor Background The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought out different sides of people - the good, the bad, and the outright...

By Miyuki Leong, Editor In March 2020, Singapore was one of the first countries to develop the TraceTogether app, a method of...

By Ng Qian Qian, Editor Since Monica Baey first stepped forward online, conversations about sexual offences and gender equality have been...

By Zhou Xizhuang Michael, President of NUS Students’ Political Association When I took off my Baju Melayu in 2013, I did not imagine I...

By Leney Ang, Editor From politics to sports, local female talents have thrived and made their marks in sectors that have been...

By Wayde Chan, Editor Introduction It is no doubt that the internet is an integral part of our lives. The COVID-19 outbreak throughout...

By S Preethiba, Senior Editor Stepping into a new year would often excite people into coming up with ‘new year resolutions’. These...

By Chua Swee Kune, Editor Since the outbreak of Covid-19, the issue of hygiene has become more pertinent than ever. Due to the heightened...

By S Preethiba, Senior Editor The onset of Covid-19 has brought many countries, including Singapore, to a standstill as governments...

By Lang Si Jie, Editor In May this year, George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, was pinned down at the neck by a white police...

By Miyuki Leong, Editor As the number of global COVID-19 cases rapidly increases and with potential vaccines still in testing phases, we...

By Trina Priscilla Ng, Commentary Editor It’s morning. Across the island, we stumble awake and towards our laptops for the usual morning...

By Zhou Xizhuang Michael, Editor-in-Chief On 15 June 2020, about 280 graduating and recently graduated students from all five...

By Nicolette Chua, Associate Commentary Editor The phrases “Strawberry generation” or “Snowflake syndrome” have long been older...

By Arash Shah Hosseini, Essays Editor With more people staying at home during the Circuit Breaker (CB) period, some children have to...

By S Preethiba, Associate Commentary Editor On one evening, as I was studying in my room, my mother had just gotten back from work and...

By Lim Yun Hui, Associate Commentary Editor The two-month long circuit breaker measures have erased the once familiar sights and sounds -...

By Arash Shah, Essays Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the status quo in the way people live, play and work. Originating from the...

By Rachel Yap, Commentary Editor It would be just past the break of dawn when Murni’s father would pay his visits to the mosque to do Eid...

By Rebecca Metteo, Managing Editor (Operations) In March 2020, WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic as it has hit many countries...

By Muhammad Quraishi, Guest Writer On the Transmissibility of Memes With the world in repose and people being confined to their homes in...

By Rachel Yap, Editor Just a month ago, I watched the South Korean film Parasite make history at the Oscars as they took home four...

By: Jasmine Chin, Guest Writer A couple of months into the fight against COVID-19, it is a timely reminder for us to reflect on how...

By Mohamed Fayyaz (Book Prize Participant, 1st Runner-Up) In 2016, a man attacked three female students of Madrasah Al Ma’arif Al...

By Zhou Xizhuang Michael and Lim Yun Hui What do students think about the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore? The Convergence team...

By Winston Wee (Guest Writer) With more than 1500 people killed and 60,000 infected in China, COVID-19 as a major public health emergency...

By Rachel Yap, Commentary Editor Roald Dahl once said, “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.” With reference to...

By Lim Yun Hui, Associate Commentary Editor Demographic Changes In the National Day Rally 2019, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced...

Commentary | Ayisha Sithika, Opinion Associate Editor The days of rapid economic growth have left Singapore because our economy has...

Commentary | Rebecca Metteo, Opinion Associate Editor As usual, in between my reading breaks, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed...

Commentary | Thomas Chew, Event Associate Editor Inequality was making the headlines in 2018. The spark started with the highly...

Commentary | Zhou Xizhuang Michael, Editor-in-Chief It’s hard to be a youth these days. Take a look at your mobile phone right now and...

Commentary | Nicole Foo, Opinion Associate Editor Conceptualised as a novel framework for enhancing affordability of hawker meals and...

Commentary | Lian Jiade In an article written by Kishore Mahbubani titled "Social Cohesion must be Engineered" published in the opinion...