Charmaine Poh in Berlin; a tribute to tribute bands; many oddities revealed in public audit; new tools for better discourse around suicides; the stigma endured by cancer survivors returning to work; gendered household work affecting women's health; and more.
Dear reader, Vapes and heated tobacco products should not be made available, let alone marketed, to the young. Also, vapes and heated tobacco products are potentially useful cessation tools, and possibly safer alternatives, for current cigarette smokers. Given medium-term global evidence, this is what’s fair to say. (Long-term effects...
Indonesia, interrupted; nothing happened in Bukit Gombak; our contortions to avoid recognition of Palestine worthy of Olympic gold; the quandaries of long-term planning in an ageing society; Lawrence, the mellow; closure of the storied Cathay cineplexes; and more.
Dear reader, Among other stories in “Singapore This Week”, our weekly digest, are mini profiles of four men: two politicians, the WP’s Pritam Singh and the PAP’s Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim; and two champs, pool player Aloysius Yapp and Wikimedian of the Year Robert Sim. Other stories that caught...
Aloysisus Yapp, pool maestro; Pritam, Zhul, and political ambition; peering behind the Global Peace Index rankings; a novel co-living pilot to reduce senior loneliness; Robert Sim, Wikimedian of the Year; and a new CNA miniseries on the separation based on freshly declassified documents.
Dear reader, Mainstream news has been dominated by Lawrence Wong’s National Day Rally and vapes; and subaltern headlines by The Projector’s closure. We cover those extensively in “Singapore This Week”, our weekly digest. Other stories that caught our eye but didn’t make it in include the first...
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