The Legal issues
 
Negligence is the area of the civil law where the plaintiff brings action against the defendant. As defined by Staunton and Chiarella (2004, p.36), “The cardinal principle of negligence is that the party complained of should owe to the party complaining a duty to take care, and that the party complaining should […]

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Uniquely to Singapore: Chinese Culture Values and Cultural Portability.

The Chinese in Singapore cover a diversity of communities and individuals but the cultural values that are of major importance are “hard work, acceptance of what life brings, respect for and harmonious coexistence with nature, family before individual welfare, education, self-control, self-actualisation, interdependence, respect for elders, collectivism […]

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MM Lee’s Yin And Yang

I recalled in a dialogue session between MM Lee and the students on the topic: “Government Takes Decisions That Benefit Majority” It that was reported in the local newspaper, Straits Times On the 4th of November, 2006.MM Lee used the yin and yang symbol in response to a question: […]

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Chinese Culture: The “inherited lens”

Singapore is a cosmopolitan country and its population comprises the Chinese, Malays, Indians, and others such as the Eurasians. In this heterogeneous, multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural society, perceptions towards illness, medical treatment and health beliefs are expected to be varied. The fact that such diversity of the population as the various […]

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Traditional Chinese health beliefs adopt a holistic view emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in increasing risk of disease. According to Quah (1985), these factors influence the balance of body’s harmony, yin and yang. These are two opposite but complementary forces and, together with qi (vital energy), they control the universe and explain […]

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is an ancient tradition of the Chinese culture, Chinese Sociology and the philosophies of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. This system is applied to health promotion, as well as treatment of illness, respecting the interrelatedness of the person and nature. The system is characterized by the diagnosis of disturbances in the flow […]

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