Migrant workers stand up for their rights, riding the Omricon XBB wave, POFMA corrections, #LookAtMe ban, and more.
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Dear reader, How many of you love thunder tea rice (lei cha)? Well, somewhat embarrassingly, that’s what got me deeply interested in the imminent razing of numerous small farms in the north-west of Singapore. I had heard whispers about it, but really only became passionate once I found out...
SPH Media Group's HR exercise, fewer singles wanting to get married, mandatory day off for foreign domestic workers, Wild Rice's annual pantomime, and more.
Dear reader, Sometime over the past few years I met a Singaporean who lives in Moscow. Jom is thankful today to publish a piece from them, “Postcard from Moscow: the centre cannot hold”. They give us an insight into the surreal atmosphere on the ground now, as many Russians, fed...
Changing attitudes to cannabis, the wheat and chicken crisis, protecting against harmful online content, Baybeats is back, circular economies, and more.
Dear reader, “First she wore the tudung, then she no longer wanted to mix with us.” I have long heard some version of this argument—the slippery slope of conservatism and isolation—applied to Muslim women in Singapore. Proponents, fed by official narratives, imagine a world in which we can...