Lee Wei Ling's passing; more executions, more POFMAs; Spanish football fans protest in Singapore; reclaiming our queer histories; "La Luna" rising; a new ode to poetry; greening our roads; 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 we will offer you Jom’s opinionated view on them. We’re hoping you’ll occasionally (often?) disagree with us.
S Iswaran’s jail sentence; the fallout from the East-West line disruption; the seeming twilight of mamak stalls; the landlady who refuses to sell land worth S$70m on which sits Singapore’s last kampung; the late Alfred Wong, modernist architect; the Sea Group’s expansion in Thailand; and more.
Iswaran denies popcorn lovers; the mental health travails of Singapore's young; workplace discrimination on the wane, but gaps remain; Singapore fleegal; family trees flourishing at NLB; the chapter closes on Epigram's physical bookstore; Deliveroo hops away from cloud kitchens, and more.
Lee Hsien Loong’s warning to the public service, K Shanmugam’s $88m bungalow sale, the environmental perils of mooncake packaging, the future of the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, our victories at the “Olympics” of vocational skills, three artist retrospectives, AI and your ah ma, and more.
Our cozy tripartite labour relations model; gig workers finally platformed; Founders’ Memorial; “cancel culture” in Singapore; the Pope’s visit, Singapore Literature Prize winners; and the desirability of working from Johor Bahru.
Origins of the Singapore-India love affair, the PM wants more women in the next election, blackface (again!), High Court moves to protect rape victims, a new memorial to Bukit Brown, Carro makes a shocking move into recruitment, and more.