“KISS & Tell”: The Knowledge & Inquiry in Singapore Studies Group (KISS), NTU 2009 present:
Geo-Cultural Designations in Art: Is Being “Asian” Important? (And What of the Archipelago?)

Ahmad Mashadi, Head of NUS Museum and C. J. W.-L. Wee, Associate Professor, English, NIE will revisit the question of geo-cultural frameworks for thinking, writing and curating modern and contemporary art in Singapore.

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Date: Friday 17th April 4.30-6.30
Venue: Meeting Room at B1 (S32-B1) School of
           Humanities and Social Sciences

Refreshments provided
Blk S3.2, B2-04 Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue Singapore 639798 Enquiries Lucy Davis: 92760796

Chinese Musical Show - If There're
Seasons（天冷就回来）

Date: Staging from 16th April to 10th May 2009

The Theatre Practice’s mega musical production of 2009

If There’re Seasons…

Tickets are selling fast!
Shows extended till 10th May 2009

Due to the encouraging ticket sales since the opening of the box office in January, The Theatre Practice has decided to extend its run of If There’re Seasons… from 3rd May to 10th May. We genuinely hope that all who want to catch this unforgettable musical will be able to see it. With 2007’s 19 sold-out performances, let 2009’s 26-show run be a true celebration to our continued love and passion for Xinyao!

Our star-studded cast, graced with the return of George Chan, Joanna Dong, Lim Shieh Yih, Ric Liu and Johnny Ng are joined this year by Sing Chew, Jeffrey Low, Oliver Pang and Catherine Sng. Join us for the mesmerizing new season and relish this fresh interpretation of the original 2007 hit musical that has elevated the stature of local Chinese theatre.

Official Website：http://www.iftherereseasons.com/
Official Blog：http://www.iftherereseasons.com/blog/

实践剧场2009年大制作

华语音乐剧《天冷就回来》
票房走势强劲 增场演出至5月10日

随2009年1月开票以来，音乐剧《天冷就回来》票房走势强劲，实践剧场于是决定将原订最后一场5月3日的演出，展延至5月10日，希望未购票的朋友能把握这一刻！2007年19场爆满，今年26场势必再次点燃新谣和华语音乐剧的热潮！

今年参与《天冷就回来》的演员除了大家所熟悉的田伟鸿、董姿彦、林燮毅、刘晋旭和黄家强外，新加入的演员包括了石欣卉、刘俊葳、彭达文和孙于惠，目前演员们已投入密集的排练，期待新搭档的演出？期待新的剧情？期待焕然一新的演出呈现？那我们的演出怎能少了你的捧场呢？

官方网站：http://www.iftherereseasons.com/
部落格：http://www.iftherereseasons.com/blog/ 

Discover Germany - Land of Ideas
Hosted by the German Society, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Goethe Institut, and supported by HSS/LCC

The event introduces NTU students to career, study, and research opportunities in Germany, as well as the German language.

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Learn German in 30 Minutes - Session 1
https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_
NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09031711505014

Learn German in 30 Minutes - Session 2 https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_
NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09031712003127

Study & Research in Germany - Session 1 https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_
NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09031712031542

Study & Research in Germany - Session 2 https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_
NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09031712061775

Start your career in Germany https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_
NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09031712082125

Date: 1 April 2009, Wednesday, 11am to 5pm
Venue: Canopy K, outside LT1A

Opening Ceremony of Master of Science (Managerial Economics) Programme & Master of Public Administration Programme AY2009/2010

The Opening Ceremony of Master of Science (Managerial Economics) Programme & Master of Public Administration Programme AY2009/2010 was held at 11:00am - 1:00pm on 30 March, 2009 in Nanyang Executive Centre. The Guest-Of-Honour was Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister of the Prime Minister's Office. One hundred and ninety-six people attended the ceremony, including 26 VIPs, 28 NTU representatives and 142 students. VIPs include Madam Zhou Jianping, Counsellor (Education) from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, representatives from CapitaLand, Engro, China Jiangsu Huailong Company, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tan Chin Tuan Foundation, Chu Cheong Co. Pte Ltd, Singapore China Travel Service Pte Ltd and so on. During the Opening Ceremony, Prof Lawrence Wang-Chi Wong, Dr Su Guaning, Madam Zhou Jianping and Mr Lim Swee Say delivered speeches. CapitaLand and Huailong Company presented scholarships to HSS. Tan Chin Tuan Foundation presented books to students.

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About Economics Awareness Exhibition 2009

This exhibit is part of a series of exhibits brought to you by the NTU Economics Society. Held in different places around the NTU campus, the Society’s inaugural exhibition focuses on alternative topics in economics, such as consumer behaviour, firm behaviour and game theory. For example, why would you find restaurants setting up close to each other, or how should we make a choice when we are confronted with a dilemma?

This exhibition seeks to educate and create awareness in economics through creative and innovative ways, which we believe will allow us to reach out to a wider audience within the NTU student body.

We invite you to view our exhibits and discover a whole new perspective in Economics.

While economics is generally perceived as technical and its close affiliation to finance, through this exhibition, we hope to change the common perception of economics and introduce topics that are relatively less popularised.

To conclude our exhibition, we will be setting up a booth on the 27th March at the South Spine, near Canteen B. We invite you to interact with us and drop your comments and areas for improvements. We look forward to meeting you.

About NTU Economics Society

A student initiative of NTU, the NTU Economics Society prides itself upon the mission to develop and inspire new interest in the field of economics. Initiated by a group of Economics students, the Society today comprises members from HSS, NBS and SBS who have contributed tremendously to its establishment in 2009.

The Society aims to provide a conducive environment for students to develop their ideas and knowledge beyond the classroom and the challenge the norm. Through our efforts, we hope to inspire new perspectives in Economics.

Launch of Harvard Ezra F. Vogel Malaysia/Singapore Initiative and Inaugural Public Lecture

Topic : "The Global Economic Crisis and Moral Changes"

Speaker: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University

Guest-of-Honour: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Minister for Finance
Honorary Patron, Harvard Ezra F. Vogel Malaysia/Singapore Initiative

Date: Thursday, 26 March 2009

Venue: Lee Kong Chian Lecture Theatre, Academic Complex South Spine 3, Basement 2 - 10
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) [map]

Time: 6.00 pm - 7.45 pm [registration and reception start at 4.30 pm]

Chairperson:
Associate Professor Kwok Kian Woon,
Head of Division of Sociology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU

Click here for the programme.

Registration:

Admission is free and registration is required. As seats are limited, it will be on first-come-first-serve basis. To register, please click https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_
NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09030915593826. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Ms Joey Kek at 65148364 or email kqkek@ntu.edu.sg

A Presentation on "Outlook for the Singapore Economy: The Impact of the Resilience Package"

The Economic Growth Centre cordially invites you to a presentation on “Outlook for the Singapore Economy: The Impact of the Resilience Package”

Date: Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1 (S3-B4A-02)
           Nanyang Business School
           Nanyang Technological University

Presentation Slides 1
Presentation Slides 2

Reservation:
Admission is free. Please reply to Christina, e-mail: achristina@ntu.edu.sg or Tel: 6790-5689 to confirm your attendance.

Finance and Economics Networking Conference 2009 – NETWORKING SEGMENT

Date : 21st March 2009,
Saturday Time : 1300 hrs to 1900 hrs
Venue : Suntec City Convention Center Level 3
            Meeting Room 303-305
Attire : Business smart casual (strictly no
          Bermudas, shorts and slippers allowed)

What will I benefit from this event?

Many companies will be providing exciting internship and career offerings and participants are strongly encouraged to bring along their CV or resume for this networking segment.

What will the companies provide us with?

How do I join?

Entry to networking segment is FREE and open to public. So hurry! Register online at our website http://www.ntu-iic.org now! All registered participants get to walk away with a set of free financial kit during the day!

For enquiries, please email to nsv@ntu-iic.org. We hope to see you there!

Professor Luke Kang Kwong from the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies wins Outstanding Researcher Award

Professor Luke Kang Kwong received an Outstanding Researcher Award at an Award Presentation Ceremony for Excellence in Teaching and Research held at the University of Hong Kong on February 19, 2009.

Professor Luke was given this prestigious award for his ground-breaking research in the field of Chinese Linguistics. For over twenty years he has researched into the Chinese language using innovative methods and techniques from a variety of disciplines, including Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

He was the first to apply the methodology of Conversation Analysis to the study of Chinese using naturally occurring speech data. The major findings of this research were published in two books, Utterance-Final Particles in Cantonese Conversation and Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in the Structure of Telephone Conversations Across Languages and Cultures. On the basis of these speech data, he has constructed the Hong Kong University Cantonese Corpus, which has provided researchers with authentic data for in-depth investigations of the structure and functions of Cantonese. More recently he has researched into the interface between language structure and conversational turn-taking by focusing on the phenomenon of sentence completion. This line of research is being pursued in collaboration with scholars in Hong Kong, Canada and Germany.

Another area in which Professor Luke has done innovative work is the interaction between tone and intonation in Chinese. Using a combination of phonological and instrumental analysis, he has mapped out a solution to the longstanding problem of how tone and intonation work, now in collaboration and now in competition, in tone-rich languages.

Professor Luke has also worked together with computer engineers in the field of Natural Language Processing. This has resulted in the publication of a series of papers on word segmentation, parts-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, new word recognition and abbreviation expansion in Chinese. He has also helped the IBM research lab in Beijing develop voice recognition applications for Cantonese, which has resulted in automatic phone-transaction systems now being widely used in Hong Kong.

In recent years Professor Luke has moved into yet another new inter-disciplinary research area, Language and Cognitive Neuroscience. In collaboration with scholars in this field and using latest neuroimaging techniques, he has published several influential articles on syntactic and semantic processing in Chinese and English, and the relationship between language and colour perception.

2009 Seminar on Economics and Public Policy For Teachers

Date : 16 March 2009, Monday
Time : 9.00am – 4.30pm
Venue : Ministry of Education Edutorium

In collaboration with Ministry of Education, the Division of Economics is also organising another Seminar on Economics and Public Policy for the Junior College Economics teachers. This provide an opportunity for the teachers to interact with each other as well as with faculty members from NTU.

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2009 Seminar on Economics and Public Policy For JC Students

Date : 14 March 2009, Saturday
Time : 9.00am – 4.45pm
Venue : Lee Kong Chien Lecture Theatre (Click here for a copy of the map)

An annual seminar organised by the Division of Economics and Ministry of Education specially for the Junior College Economics students. Students will learn about Economics and Public Policy from our experienced professors and at the same time mix around with their peers from other Junior Colleges.

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LIFE @ NTU 2009

An open house organised by Office of Admission and Financial Aid for you at our garden campus!  

Come to the open house and learn about the interesting courses offered. Find out what student life is like at our school. At this open house, you would get to interact with our professors, staff and student ambassadors who would be happy to share with you their experiences with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Talks will also be held in the lecture theatres to give students an overall introduction to our undergraduate curriculum.

Date: 14th March 2009
Time: 10:00am to 6:00pm
Venue: Nanyang Auditorium

Picture Gallery

How will China Emerge from the Global Financial Crisis in 2009? Outlook of Chinese Economy and Business Opportunities in 2009
中国如何在全球金融危机中复苏? 展望2009年的中国经济和商机

Registration fee for the Symposium is S$15. Free admission for NTU staff, MPA, MME and MACC graduates.

As seats are limited, registration is required, please kindly register here for the Symposium. If you have any queries, Please feel free to contact Lyndi at 6316 8809 or email macc@ntu.edu.sg

Date: 14 March 2009, Saturday
Time: 9am - 1pm
Venue: Auditorium, Level 3, NTU@one-north
           campus
           南洋理工大学纬壹校区三楼礼堂

CLASS Distinguished Public Lecture Series

9th March 2009, Monday
LT 2, Nanyang Executive Centre (NEC), NTU [map]
4.30 pm - 6.00 pm [reception starts at 4.00 pm]

"You think you know what motivates you, but you could be wrong:Some causes and consequences of the independence between implicit and explicit motives "
by Professor Oliver Schultheiss, Friedrich Alexander University

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10th March 2009, Tuesday
LT 29, South Spine academic block [map]
4.30 pm - 6.00 pm [reception provided after lecture]

"Linguistic Diversity and Language Contact in Southeast Asia"
by Professor James A. Matisoff, UC Berkeley

Click for the lecture abstract and speaker's bio Click to register !!!

If you have any queries on the above lectures, please feel free to contact us at 65148382 or email d-class@ntu.edu.sg

Loanwords in the Asian Context Workshop
Organised by Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU

Click here for the programme.

Date:  Monday, 9 March 2009
Time: 9:15 am to 1:30pm
Venue:  Executive Seminar Room 4 (S3.1‐B1‐06)

A film screening and dialogue with filmmaker jointly organised by NTU Sociological Society and Israeli Embassy: Seeds of Summer "What is it like for women to be in the army?"

Date: 6th March 2009, Friday
Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Venue: LT 11

Get Together Event for HSS Graduating Students

Are you a HSS graduating student?

You are invited to sign up for a Get Together Event for HSS Graduating Students, planned especially for you!

This is a night when you get a taste of the importance and impact of dressing right for the occasion, such as your interview; and also a night when you get to mingle with your peers before you get pre-occupied with preparations for your coming exams in April.

Date: 5th March 2009, Thursday
Venue: SPMS-LT2 (SPMS-03-03), next to
           Canteen B
Time: 5.15pm (Registration)

A door gift awaits you. Registration is required for the purpose of catering. To register for the event, please click here. On-line registration will close on 25th Feb 2009.

For more details, please refer to the attached program sheet. We look forward to seeing you.

Symposium on Language and Diversity

Please find attached the programme for the symposium.

We are pleased to offer a special discounted registration fee of S$10 for NTU staff and students. The registration fee includes admission to the symposium, refreshments ad conference materials. To register for the Symposium, please click: http://portal.hss.ntu.edu.sg/language/default.aspx

Date: 5 and 6 March 2009
Venue: Nanyang Executive Centre (NEC)

Symposium on Sound, Silence and the Arts

Speaker: Steven Conner

The Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) and the English Division extend an open invitation to attend an interdisciplinary symposium on Sound, Silence and the Arts.

Whether it is listening to one’s reading voice, music, film or drama – auditory experience plays a central role in how we engage with art. This interdisciplinary symposium explores the ways in which sound and silence are formally manipulated and represented within film, music, literature and language. While vision has been the dominant mode for understanding truth and knowledge in modernity, this symposium seeks to examine an alternative narrative that reveals the cultural significance of auditory perception.

Keynote Speaker

Steven Connor is a Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College London, where he has taught since 1979. He is also the College Orator. He is Academic Director of the London Consortium Graduate Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies. His most recent books are The Book of Skin (London: Reaktion, 2004) and Fly, on the history of the fly in poetry, painting, religion and science (London: Reaktion 2006).

Please click here for the programme.

Registration

Admission is free. To register, please click https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/
REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09021209372925

If you have any enquiries or require further information, please feel free to contact Ms Siti at 65148382 or email SITINUR@ntu.edu.sg.

Photo Gallery 

Japanese Cultural Festival 
organised by Japanese Appreciation Club (supported by LCC)

Date: 17-18 February 2009
Venue: The Pavilion

Finance and Economics Networking Conference 2009
Economy downturn? Uncertainty? Negative growth? Difficult to find jobs?
by NTU Investment Interactive Club

This March, come and hear from the top and finest industry players in both Finance and Economics sectors on their valuable insights and advice in these turbulent times.

Details of event:

Date    : 21st March 2009, Saturday
Venue  : Suntec City Convention Center
Time    : 1300hrs – 1900hrs
Attire   : Smart Casual (Strictly no entry for people in bermudas, shorts or slippers)

How will I benefit from this event?
During the Conference Segment, you get to hear the views and insights from the top industry leaders and walkaway with invaluable knowledge.  Also, through the Networking Segment, there is a strong platform for you to meet and interact with industry players from the finance and economics industries and to cultivate an experiential experience as we move towards a financially and economically knowledge-rich Singapore.

Undergraduates from  Accountancy, Business and Economics are strongly advised to participate in this inaugural event. Get to meet representatives from the leaders in the industry where some are offering internship opportunities for you*. Our participating companies include Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), Ministry of Finance (MOF), Economics Society of Singapore (ESS) and many more. With the many opportunities for internship and career development, do feel free to bring copies of your resume for the networking session!

 #Organizers reserve the right the change the programme schedule and content at any time prior to the event date.

** Do check out our website http://www.ntu-iic.org for detailed synopsis of the programmes, participating company profiles, as well as any updated information.

How do I join this event?
Online registration starts from 9th Feb to 15th Feb 2009 while ticket sales starts from 16th Feb to 18th Feb, 11am to 5.30pm at booths in S4 South Spine, (Benches at S4-B2, below FAL) to enjoy the above privileges. Tickets priced at $10. Free flow of refreshments will also be served.

Apart from the above values, we are also giving out FREE 6 months Financial Times Online FT.com subscription (worth USD 168) for ticket holders only. This subscription allows unlimited access to world-wide financial news, in-depth analysis of current economic issues and company financials, which will aid in future job interviews.

So, hurry! Tickets while stock last!

Do visit our website http://www.ntu-iic.org for more details and for enquiries, please email to nsv@ntu-iic.org.

We hope to see you there!

CLASS Seminar Series - "Tracking Opportunities and Problems (TOPP) study - a longitudinal study from 18 months to 18 years"
by Wendy Nilsen, Norwegian Institute of National Health, Oslo, Norway

Abstract:

Longitudinal, prospective population studies offer a unique opportunity to study precursors and developmental courses of positive and negative outcomes in childhood and adolescence. Worldwide, there are a limited number of longitudinal studies that deal with risk and protective factors for child and adolescent mental health, and even fewer that span the period from infancy to adolescence. Throughout the entire developmental period, there is an opportunity to change the paths. The longer the developmental span we study, greater is the variety of developmental and social processes that may be focused upon along the way, and greater also is the possibility to identify risk and protective factors. The TOPP study - follows children from 18 months to 18 years, with 8 waves of data collection. Some of the factors the study measures are family adversity, maternal, paternal and the children's mental and somatic health and personality, in addition to positive factors such as social support. The study aims to increase our knowledge about precursors, early predictors and developmental pathways to symptoms of depression among adolescent boys and girls. Thus, this is crucial information needed to indicate where and when preventive measures and intervention should be implemented.

The aim of my PhD-thesis within the TOPP-study is to examine the continuity of depression symptoms in children and their mothers from toddlerhood to adolescence. The 921 families and children participating in the TOPP-study were measured on internalizing symptoms when they were 18 months, 2.5, 4.5, 8.5, 12.5, 14.5 and 16.5 years old. Their mothers were measured on Hopkins Symptom Check List (HSCL) at the same seven data waves. The scores on depression symptoms from toddlerhood to adolescence showed moderate stability, with an increasing amount of stability from age 12.5 and onwards.

This talk will be consisting of a presentation of the TOPP-study and some of its findings - as well as an introduction to my doctoral thesis work and some of its preliminary findings.

Biography:

Wendy Nilsen has a Msc in Social Psychology, and is currently working as a PhD-researcher/scholar at the Division of Mental Health at the Norwegian Institute of National Health, Oslo, Norway. In September 2008 she started working with her PhD-thesis about depression in adolescence, and precursors and developmental pathways from 18 months to 18 years. The thesis is a part of the research project "Tracking Opportunities and Problems (TOPP) - study" - a longitudinal study starting in 1993 and lasting until 2010.

Date: 12 February 2009, Thursday
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Venue: HSS Seminar Room 10 (S3.2-B3-10)

For registration, please click https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/
REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09020512032322

Sociology Awareness Week
by Sociological Society

Find out what Sociology is and the awe-inspiring concepts! Then you can proudly tell your friends that you SAW us!

Date: 16th - 18th February 2009
Venue: Outside Canteen A

Time Magazine’s Top 10 Animal Stories of 2008

In December 2007, Dr. Gumert published a paper in the journal Animal Behaviour, entitled “Payment for sex in a macaque mating market.” The paper demonstrated the value of using an economic model of supply and demand for explaining cooperative behavior in animals that involves the voluntary choice of a partner in a competitive social market. The research was a test of a theory originated by Ronald Noe and Peter Hammerstein in the mid-90’s, called biological market theory. This was the first paper applying the model to exchanges with sexual behavior, and following its publication it was popularized by New Scientist, Discovery Channel News, Time, and the Associated Press. Following its initial press release, the article was seen in various forms in numerous newspapers and websites around the globe, further leading to an interview for another article in the NY Times on animal mating systems and an interview with the Strait’s Times on Dr. Gumert’s work with macaque monkeys in SE Asia. In January 2009, the story was listed as #8 on Time magazine’s Top 10 Animal Stories of 2008.

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Picture Gallery (31 Jan 2009 and 14 Feb 2009)

Experience NTU 2009

An open house organised by OAFA exclusively for top students; HSS participates in this open house and organises a school tour for students with a keen interest in Humanities and Social Sciences. At the school tour, held in the HSS library; students get to mingle with our faculty members and student ambassadors to find out more about our curriculum and student life at HSS.

Join us at Experience NTU and find out what NTU-HSS has to offer!

Date: 17 January 2009 (Saturday)

Director of Language Administration at China's Ministry of Education wrote a preface to Dr Goh’s book

Prof Li Yuming, Director of Language Administration at China's Ministry of Education wrote a preface to Dr Goh’s book, just published in Beijing. It is the first time ever that the most senior official in charge of China's language planning and language standardisation has done so for an overseas scholar. In it, Prof Li highly commended Dr Goh's scholarly effort and achievement. He praises Singapore Government's language policy and says that understanding the Republic's language policy is critical in formulating China's own language policy. He also proposes development of a "Da Huayu" (Global Huayu) as a common language for Chinese worldwide in light of increasing influence of China globally.

6th SER Public Lecture:
History of Economic Thought...
and where it is headed

Date: 7 January 09 (Wednesday)
Time: 6.00pm - 7.15pm (light refreshment provided at 5.15 pm)
Venue: CSC Auditorium, Level 1
Civil Service College
31 North Buona Vista Rd, S275983

Chairman: Prof Euston Quah
Editor, Singapore Economic Review
 
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Call for papers for Singapore Economic Review Conference 2009

Following the success of the Singapore Economic Review Conferences in 2005 and 2007 (close to 350 economists from 40 countries attended), we are pleased to organize the third conference from August 6-8, 2009 in Singapore.

The Singapore Economic Review (SER) has been a leading journal in economics in Asia since it was founded in 1956. The SER is a general economics journal devoted to publishing papers of high academic standard. It covers a wide range of economic issues, especially those impinging on Southeast Asia and the broader Asia-Pacific region. SER is also indexed in major economics indices such as the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Google Scholar; EconLit; and RePec.

The Singapore Economic Review (SER) is pleased to announce the 2009 SER Conference (6-8 Aug at Swissotel, Singapore). More information can be assessed via http://www.serc2009.org/index.html.