Diplomatic wildfires; the costs of haze; should employers ignore academic degrees; e-wallet vulnerabilities; paan and sirih in South and South-east Asia; ArtsEquator closes; and more.
Singapore This Week
Singapore This Week is one of Jom's paid products. It is meant to be your end-of-week catchup. We will decide on the most important stories that week—from arts to politics and tech—and offer you Jom's opinionated view on them. We’re hoping you’ll occasionally (often?) disagree with us.
The corporate, government, and palm oil addiction maze behind the haze; giving in Singapore; the big business of domain names; and more.
PAP MPs call for inheritance tax; the latest from Parliament; the coolest Nobel Prize for Physics; workplace contretemps; and more.
On chickens and their eggs; a government dating app; WorldSkills; AI-generated images; the inaugural Singapore Indie Bookshop Day; and more.
The pleasures and perils of coffee; mRNA vaccines; Tiffany Teo at the Asian Games; zapin in South-east Asia; and more.
An explosive new paper on housing; duty, dollars, and democracy; AI agents gone rogue; lessons from medieval trade; and more.