ST Pre-U Primer

GP resource for pre-university students: Crime in the Modern Era

This week, the team behind the ST-MOE News Outreach Programme look at the evolving nature of modern crime.

Crime in the modern era: Evolving challenges to safety and security

Driven by new technologies and an increasingly volatile global landscape, today’s crime presents unprecedented challenges to safety and security.

GP resource for pre-university students: A budget for a changed world

Describing AI as a strategic advantage for Singapore in his Budget 2026 speech, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong laid out how the country would invest in the field.

Budget 2026: Securing Singapore’s future in a changed world

Budget 2026 addresses both the population’s immediate needs and the long-term challenges of a more contested world, says the writer.

GP resource for pre-university students: The future of reading

People browsing books at Books Kinokuniya in Orchard, 23 December 2023.

In a post-literate age, books are acting like chatbots. Can reading survive?

Readers who have no time or patience to slog through author Irene Ng’s 1352-page The Lion’s Roar had a chance to instead pose questions about to the National Library Board's generative AI-powered ChatBot in 2024.

Our collective memories

This week, we look at Singapore’s identity and our collective memories.

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More is more: At 60, Singapore is ready to find new ways to understand itself

There may be as many national memories as there are people in Singapore, with their different ages, socio-economic circumstances, ethnicities and life experiences, loosely connected to the larger whole, says the writer.

Singapore at 60

Fireworks illuminate the night sky over Marina Bay during the NDP 2025 at the Padang as seen from MBS SkyPark Observation Deck on Aug 9, 2025.

Primer

Again in uncharted waters, Singapore steers ahead, at 60

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong taking a wefie with students and young working adults at the inaugural Youth Policy Forum on Aug 24, 2024.

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