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In a year of political spectacle, the Singapore Biennale turns its gaze to the decidedly unspectacular. What might we find in the basic building blocks— mall units, shoebox flats, cookie-cutter classrooms—that form our country? Our writer explores the sprawling exhibition to see if she can find out.
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By temporarily shielding us from modernity's cacophony, this multi-disciplinary work allows for a meditation on our relationship with time, and the natural environment.
What happens when we decentre human agency and cast nature as the protagonist?
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;...
Some 18 years after he interviewed with the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), Harpreet Singh Nehal has joined the Workers’ Party. How much of a threat will the kampung boy turned senior counsel pose to the PAP?
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