Drawn here by scholarships, and often offered a pathway to citizenship, the lives of migrant Chinese female students in Singapore are a mix of promise and pressure, complicating feelings towards their adopted home.
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The Migrant Writers of Singapore creates spaces of belonging for workers looking to practice their craft through community. But can their stories present a new narrative about migrant lives and push our cosmopolitan, capitalist nation-state to pay closer attention?
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Loyalty programmes and fitness apps rely on the power of streaks and the behaviours they incentivise. Understand them, and use them productively.
Madasamy Ravi, better known as M Ravi, a human rights lawyer and activist, died on December 24th 2025, aged 56.
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A gift may be an economic decision, but behavioural science reveals the real drivers: signalling, warm-glow, and the social rules that shape how we give.
We honour the public figures who left for the great beyond this year after indelibly shaping Singapore’s social, cultural, political, and artistic worlds.