On chickens and their eggs; a government dating app; WorldSkills; AI-generated images; the inaugural Singapore Indie Bookshop Day; 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 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.
Anti-Indian sentiment surges as politics obscures SIA-Air India scrutiny; Singapore considers chemical castration for sex offenders; the UN endorses a fairer world map; actors perform without rehearsals; and artists find new life for discarded objects
Dengue in Europe; Chinese cabbage bathed in formaldehyde; Japan’s incredible soft power; ethno-fascism; and a new anthology featuring stories of nine queer families.
More land reclamation; whither the plumbers; masculinism's chilling rise; the troubling culture of the gaming industry; and more.