Dear reader, Another week, another Lee/Li. This time, there’s the news that Li Hongyi, son of Lee Hsien Loong and Ho Ching, has allegedly resigned as the director of Singpass. His apparently leaked resignation message is quite telling. We may write about it in more detail in a...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss the Lees’ political asylum in the UK; the ethics of assisted dying; Singapore’s war on drugs; the latest prize for Khir Johari’s magisterial The Food of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels through the Archipelago; playwright Joel Tan’s...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss Raeesah Khan’s testimony at Pritam Singh’s trial; the problematic Allianz-Income deal; that (yawn) house at Oxley Road; proposed archaeological laws to protect Singapore’s “cultural patrimony”; the passing of Shahid Nasheer, prodigious theatre talent; the floundering “30...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss Lee Wei Ling’s passing and the implications for the house at 38 Oxley Road; the execution of Mohammad Azwan bin Bohari just days before the World Day Against the Death Penalty; Peter Lim’s problematic ownership of Valencia...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we talk about S Iswaran’s 12-month jail sentence; the fallout from the longest-ever continuous disruption to a train service; the seeming twilight of mamak stalls; the landlady who refuses to sell land worth S$70m on which sits Singapore’s...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we talk about S Iswaran’s guilty plea; youth mental health concerns; declining discrimination in the workplace; attempts by the legal fraternity to improve work-life balance and access to justice; the Genealogy Society of Singapore’s donation to the National Library...