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Cold Storage’s curious anniversary; the perils of live commerce; changing home ownership mores; a fascinating historical saga stretching across Egypt, Singapore, and Indonesia; and the renaissance of dinner theatre.
It’s easy to trust a Finn. But how do you get a Finn to trust you? Corrie Tan spends a year in the “happiest” country in the world and tries to find out.
As Russia mobilises untrained civilians to prop up the war in Ukraine, a Singaporean living in Moscow ponders its futility and the growing dissonance of being in a country stuck between peace and conflict.
Changing attitudes to cannabis, the wheat and chicken crisis, protecting against harmful online content, Baybeats is back, circular economies, and more.
The tudung issue is a microcosm of a much larger problem in society—our refusal to recognise the full differences that make up the reality of our lives in Singapore.
Tharman Shanmugaratnam on moving multiculturalism beyond public and common spaces, green initiatives at the Grand Prix, producing alt-meat using magnetic pulses, and much more.
By confronting her own mental health issues, Jom’s co-founder hopes for a Singapore in which we can talk about mental illness openly, without fear of stigma.
The rich and their good class bungalows, ISD and the thought police, workplace discrimination, Singapore Writers Festival, TikTok's future, and more
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