Lee Hsien Loong’s warning to the public service, K Shanmugam’s $88m bungalow sale, the environmental perils of mooncake packaging, the future of the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, our victories at the “Olympics” of vocational skills, three artist retrospectives, AI and your ah ma, and more.
Dear reader, This is Jean, taking over newsletter duties. As you can tell from the subject of this email, we’ve got a juicy edition of Jom this week. “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss Singapore’s tripartite model of labour relations; the new Platform Workers Bill;...
Our cozy tripartite labour relations model; gig workers finally platformed; Founders’ Memorial; “cancel culture” in Singapore; the Pope’s visit, Singapore Literature Prize winners; and the desirability of working from Johor Bahru.
Dear reader, Letters to the editor. Thank you, anonymous Jom reader who works at a government agency, for your response to “From Punggol with love: tracing the origins of the Hougang Spirit” by Kelvin Yap. They said that “...even when marginalised groups are left behind by unthinking and capitalist models...
Origins of the Singapore-India love affair, the PM wants more women in the next election, blackface (again!), High Court moves to protect rape victims, a new memorial to Bukit Brown, Carro makes a shocking move into recruitment, and more.
Dear reader, Letters to the editor. Thank you, Vignesh Ramachandran, who’s based in Dubai, for your thoughtful response to “My authoritarian brain”, Linette Lim’s essay last week. Vignesh, in a few short lines, validates the author’s thesis, defends the systemic flexibility he believes Lee Kuan Yew left...
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