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.
Lei cha, or thunder tea rice, is a dish that reflects the nomadic lifestyle of the Hakkas, their ability to adapt to local circumstances, and the importance of community.
SPH Media Group's HR exercise, fewer singles wanting to get married, mandatory day off for foreign domestic workers, Wild Rice's annual pantomime, and more.
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.
