Archive for September, 2009

Give.sg, Singapore’s Kiva

Social Entrepreneurship on September 8th, 2009 2 Comments

Stumbled upon Give.sg today, and got really excited. Founded by a group of NUS students and based in a NUS Business incubator, their work “supports charity and fundraising efforts across Singapore”. My guess is that it is a Kiva approach to charity in Singapore, where charities put up requests for donations online, and Give.sg provides [...]

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Singapore and its foreigners

Opinion, Singapore on September 3rd, 2009 4 Comments

Went to the National University of Singapore (NUS) today to visit my friend from China. He is an NUS student and had been on exchange in Stanford last year, and I thought I’d use the opportunity to get to know my local university as well.
I admit visiting NUS was like being a resident tourist, a [...]

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