A transgressive movement, borne of liberation from state surveillance and market structures, somehow survives in one of the world’s capitalist and paternalist meccas.
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PAP MPs call for inheritance tax; the latest from Parliament; the coolest Nobel Prize for Physics; workplace contretemps; and more.
We disagree with the government’s decision to bring charges against the death penalty abolitionists and pro-Palestine activists last month.
It's neither crime nor the weather that's on writer Myle Yan Tay's mind as a student in Chicago. It's booze. Yan tracks his relationship with alcohol and newly made friends in the "Windy City", as a frigid winter approaches.
Workers' Party asks if People's Action Party propagates falsehoods, shoes donated for recycling end up being exported for resale, Cross Cultures at the ACM, carsharing revs up, and more.
Throughout his life the boss of hedge fund Quantedge has had to grapple with questions around privilege, tokenism, and meritocracy. They inform his view of the just, equitable and race-neutral Singapore that he is striving to help build.
Singapore's first vaccine-complication death, ChatGPT flunks school, Objectifs to expand in size and programming, PayNow goes to India, and more.
Activists in Singapore have found ways to continue their advocacy without running afoul of the law. But some worry that these softer strategies of resistance only serve to strengthen existing power structures.
Budget 2023 highlights, paternity leave boost, archive of architectural treasures, ACS's unwelcomed moves, Aspire raises US$100m in Series C round, and more.
