Date:  11 April 2015 (Saturday)

Support your alumni who are planning to crush their way to victory in Singapore’s very own version in honour of this annual tradition and SG50!

Come cycle along the river, or enjoy the carnival from under Sheares Bridge.

Timeline of Events:

1500 – Oxford v Cambridge (mixed crews)

1600 – Oxbridge v EASTer Rowing Club

1700 – Oxford v Cambridge (Women)

1800 – Oxford v Cambridge (Men)

1830 – Awards Ceremony & Winning Time Prizes

Further Entertainment:

There will be finger food, ice-cream, candy floss & cold drinks.  For the adventurous, a bouncy castle will be available!

Guess the winning times – win bottles of Bollinger!

Relax in our Air-con Lounge and Coffee Corner, and to live bands.

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LOCATION:  11 Rhu Cross, 437440

For a map and printable timeline of events, please click here:  Boat Race flyer

Members had a candid discussion under the Chatham House rules on the challenges faced by the Singapore mainstream media, including the need to enlarge the political space for print journalists, and the business model requiring premium-priced advertising space even for personal columns, making it difficult, for instance, for readers to insert death notices for family members. It was also noted (with some regrets) that there was insufficient investigative journalism in Singapore.

However, it was commented that it is refreshing that a crop of younger, more hard-hitting journalists was coming through the system which would allow the media to improve itself and evolve with the times. As such, even if the Singapore mainstream media hasn’t always had an easy time, it has largely held its own in a rapidly changing media landscape.

About the speaker:
Mr Daniel was appointed deputy chief executive officer of Singapore Press Holdings in July 2016. He was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the English and Malay Newspapers Division of Singapore Press Holdings in January 2007. The division was renamed English/Malay/Tamil Media Group in January 2015, incorporating the print and digital operations, as well as business adjacencies.

Prior to being Editor-in-Chief, he was Managing Editor of the division from September 2002, and Editor of The Business Times from May 1992. He joined The Straits Times as a senior leader/feature writer in October 1986 from the Singapore Government’s Administrative Service where his last position was director in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.



Mr Daniel graduated from University College, Oxford in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Engineering Sciences and Economics. He also has a Masters in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Date: 10 February 2015

Venue: The Pyramid Club, 2 Goodwood Hill, Singapore 258897

Time: 7 pm – dinner and drinks / 7.30 pm to commence chat

Cost: $20 per Member on a cost recovery basis.

Members may bring one non-Member guest at a cost of $40 per guest.

New Membership or renewal of Membership may be obtained at the event. Kindly contact events@oxbridge.org.sg to verify your membership status, if necessary.

Get your tickets here.

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Speaker Background

Mr Donald Low is Associate Dean (Research and Executive Education) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Besides leading the School’s executive education efforts, he also heads its case study unit. His research interests at the School include inequality and social spending, behavioural economics, economics and public policy, public finance, and governance and politics in Singapore.

Prior to his current appointment, Donald served fifteen years in the Singapore government. During that time, he established the Centre for Public Economics at the Civil Service College of Singapore to advance economics literacy in the Singapore government.

Donald is the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2011), a pioneering book which details how the Singapore government has applied ideas from behavioural economics alongside standard economics in the design of public policies. His most recent book, Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2014), raises searching questions about the long-term viability of many aspects of governance in Singapore, and argues that a far-reaching and radical rethinking of the country’s policies and institutions is necessary, even if it weakens the very consensus that enabled Singapore to succeed in its first 50 years.

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Tickets available here.