Greetings from Singapore, with love

These patriotic youths used social media to unite the rest of Singapore in playing gracious hosts to guests from afar
An online campaign led by seven Film & Media Studies freshmen, who call themselves FADERS2, has met with unexpected success, garnering a phenomenal 15,300 sign-ups within three weeks, making it one of the fastest youth-initiated campaigns [...]

More to us than meets the eye

Love them or hate them, stereotypes will always exist. We take stock of our very own stereotypes of the seven schools. Word of caution: Take it with a pinch of salt and have a good laugh at yourselves!

The Stereotype: The Humanities students are always beaming sunshine and optimism. Just look at the loud yellow [...]

Silat rookies put up a rousing resistance

Although they did not come out on top, the Silat team put up a commendable fight at this year’s annual Tertiary Silat Championship at the Singapore Silat Federation.
The competition, held from May 29 to 30 and Jun 5 to 6, brought together the five polytechnics, National Technological University, National University of Singapore, the Institutes of [...]

Joining hands to give hope

NP holds summit in collaboration with a humanitarian organisation to mark three years of partnership in raising awareness about poverty in the Philippines
The Gawad Kalinga (GK) Community Development Foundation and Singapore’s GK Hope Initiative (GKHi) recently launched their second GK Global Summit at NP’s Convention Centre on Jun 25.
Titled “Gawad Kalinga Summit [...]

Not champions, but still winners

The task was daunting from the start – it was the inaugural Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Audit and Accounting Challenge 2010.
The competitors were a force to reckon with - 50 teams and almost 250 participants from NTU, National University of Singapore, Singapore Management University, Singapore Polytechnic (SP), Nanyang Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic and NP.
The four girls [...]

Green fingers create mini beauties

As part of NP’s outreach programme, the department of the Horticulture & Landscape Management (HLM) course from the School of Life Sciences and Technology (LSCT) organised the “Miniature Garden Competition” for secondary school students.
The competition saw 48 teams from 16 schools design and nurture their potted plants for a month prior to the finals held [...]

Living out her YOG dreams

A freshman won a coveted spot as a sports journalist for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games
Fuelled by her passion for sports and writing, first-year Mass Communication student, Clarissa Sih Shu Ning, 16, will be participating in the inaugural Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) as a reporter under the McDonald’s Young Journalist Programme.
“I feel [...]

Of mistakes, misfortunes and misadventures

Host of Discovery Channel’s new adventure series, Solving History with Olly Steeds shares his experience as an investigative journalist
Having led expeditions to places such as Mongolia, Saudi Arabia and Amazon, it is no wonder that Oliver “Olly” Steeds has been hailed as a real-life Indiana Jones.
The influential explorer came down to NP on Jun 7 [...]

Code red for blood drive

“Give blood, save lives.” With these four words, the Singapore Red Cross tries to get people to donate their blood for those whose lives depend on it.
The Red Cross Humanitarian Network (RCHN), a student run group which has been organising blood drives since 2006, held another blood drive on May 4 to 6 at OurSpace@72.
However, [...]

Homegrown stories

Michael Kam has outdone himself by winning the short film award at the recent International Kurzfilm Festival (IKFF) awards for his short film, Masala Mama.
The motion picture revolves around a young boy who aspires to become a comic book superhero. When he gets caught by the owner of the local mama shop for stealing comic [...]