What if your favourite packet of Maggi isn’t just comfort food, but a mirror of global capitalism, cultural loss, and nostalgia? The writer unpacks how a Swiss invention became a South-east Asian staple; redefining taste, memory, and the meaning of home in just two minutes.
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.
In the 1970s, as female flight attendants in the West were fighting gender discrimination, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways were building brands around their sexualised female icons. Are we willing to accept sexism when it subsidises “the nation”?
Halimah Yacob not running for second term, PAP supporters in defence of Ridout ministers, food historian Khir Johari wins big at 28th Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Circles.Life expands into the Middle East, and more.
Dear reader, Two lawyers have published pieces in Jom today. Harpreet Singh Nehal, a senior counsel, gives us his take on the twilight-of-the-elites moment in Singapore right now, concerning two cabinet ministers living in two palatial black-and-white bungalows. In “Strengthening the Singapore system: the Ridout Rd saga and conflicts of...
The pursuit of racial harmony, backed up by a corpus of laws and penalties, may come at the expense of genuine racial justice.
Illicit arms trading, caring for caregivers, improved workplace safety and health measures, Andrew Gn at the ACM, death of actor Wahid Satay at 93, and more.
A senior counsel offers suggestions for how the government’s upcoming review should be carried out to ensure its credibility and effectiveness.
Dear reader, First, I wanted to tell you about a new section in the newsletter: “Other SG stuff we like”. You subscribe to Jom partly for curation, us introducing you to new content on Singapore, not just ours. We’re not going to do it every week, only when there’...
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Not just another tote bag, but a better one. Stylish, durable and versatile, thanks to roomy external pockets and a flat base inside. And you get to tell the world: write, read, think, act.
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Featuring an essay each by members of Jom’s editorial team, and many others, all within the themes of “Activism”, “Ecology” and “Music”.
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Featuring original work around the themes of “Housing”, “Leftists” and the “Arts”, including a foldout housing map by Kontinentalist.
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