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Dear reader, Today we’ve published: * “Singapore This Week” by Jom * “Winged woes: a historical look at birds in Singapore”, by Xiaoyun Neo with illustrations by Jay Wong This week, Singaporeans celebrated a historic, come-from-behind 2-1 victory by our national football team over Hong Kong’s, to qualify for the...
The recent sighting in Sungei Buloh of the Rhinoceros hornbill, thought to be locally extinct, brought joy. It was a sobering reminder too, of what we’ve lost in our headlong, heedless rush toward modernity.
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Dear reader, Today we’ve published: * “Singapore This Week” by Jom * “The bougainvilleas outside”, my (hopefully) last piece on 38 Oxley Road Letters. I’m glad that many of you are as thrilled as all of us at Jom about our first-ever regular column, Everyday Economics by Serene Koh. Rui...
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