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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.
As the ruling People's Action Party gathered for its biennial conference, it has become clear that its 4G leaders plan to stick to its political playbook, even as the politics of fear becomes increasingly self-defeating.
Much ado about PAP's biennial conference, Parliament fumbles, changes to last-minute death row challenges, Night at the Library, and much more.
KC Chew has lived a life of risk, rebellion and rebirth. Detained without trial in 1987 for being a "Marxist conspirator", the connector of people has tried to straddle the line between the establishment and the outside. Has he succeeded?
Updates to the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, orchid diplomacy and anti-ageing, SGIFF is back, new Twitter loses egalitarian nature, and more.
By 2030, Singapore is set to lose 4,700 hectares of secondary forests, equivalent to over a thousand Padangs. We follow Chua Chin Tat, environmental activist, around Dover Park East, a 50-odd-year-old secondary forest to learn about his efforts to stop its destruction.
Another stretch of Singapore’s secondary forests will soon be razed to make way for a new housing development project. What does this mean for the future of the island’s nature spots?
