While we cheer repeal, Jom worries about the usurping of democratic norms, the infiltration of religion into the politics of a secular state, and the ignorance of the bounds of free speech. Only two MPs can hold their heads high.
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Hong Lim Park is at once a space for seeking identity, making speeches, forming memories, affirming equality, and at its core, a simple patch of green for recreational purposes. How has it stood the ravages of time as a place for sketching and imprinting self and nationhood?
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Our writer revisits his TV-watching younger self, a boy whose cultural identity was shaped to a large extent by his insatiable appetite for local dramas.
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In exploring his Korean roots, writer Jonathan Chan uncovers Singapore's long historical links with South Korea. It's a journey that has led to the Republic's decade-long obsession with the East Asian nation's cultural exports, a wave that keeps rising.
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Online learning platforms promise almost limitless knowledge and better career credentials to anyone with an internet connection. Yet, at best, they are only partial solutions to a student’s learning needs.
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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.