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Dear reader, Over 100 people have bought tickets for our next “Jom cakap”, at 7pm on October 16th, at The Projector. It features three of Asia’s top journalists: Shibani Mahtani of The Washington Post, Karishma Vaswani of Bloomberg Opinion, and Sue-Lin Wong of The Economist. I think this is...
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Dear reader, We’re super excited about Jom’s next live event at 7pm on Monday, October 16th, at The Projector. “Jom cakap, let’s talk: correspondents in Asia—how three top journalists cover our region” will feature Shibani Mahtani, Karishma Vaswani and Sue-Lin Wong. Shibani is an international investigative...
A sold-out, debut play from Amanda Chong brought audiences to tears of joy, anger and anguish, delivering rousing applause for lead actress Sindhura Kalidas for her solo performance. But not everything lived up to expectations, according to our reviewer.
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