In the 1970s, as female flight attendants in the West were fighting gender discrimination, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways were building brands around their sexualised female icons. Are we willing to accept sexism when it subsidises “the nation”?
Aloysisus Yapp, pool maestro; Pritam, Zhul, and political ambition; peering behind the Global Peace Index rankings; a novel co-living pilot to reduce senior loneliness; Robert Sim, Wikimedian of the Year; and a new CNA miniseries on the separation based on freshly declassified documents.
The practice of farming in Singapore has gone through several waves of transformation. What are today’s urban farmers trying to achieve?
Dear reader, Among other stories in “Singapore This Week”, our weekly digest, are mini profiles of four men: two politicians, the WP’s Pritam Singh and the PAP’s Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim; and two champs, pool player Aloysius Yapp and Wikimedian of the Year Robert Sim. Other stories that caught...
In the 1970s, as female flight attendants in the West were fighting gender discrimination, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways were building brands around their sexualised female icons. Are we willing to accept sexism when it subsidises “the nation”?
Aloysisus Yapp, pool maestro; Pritam, Zhul, and political ambition; peering behind the Global Peace Index rankings; a novel co-living pilot to reduce senior loneliness; Robert Sim, Wikimedian of the Year; and a new CNA miniseries on the separation based on freshly declassified documents.
Dear reader, Mainstream news has been dominated by Lawrence Wong’s National Day Rally and vapes; and subaltern headlines by The Projector’s closure. We cover those extensively in “Singapore This Week”, our weekly digest. Other stories that caught our eye but didn’t make it in include the first...
The practice of farming in Singapore has gone through several waves of transformation. What are today’s urban farmers trying to achieve?
Professor Wong lectures on AI; the erstwhile "nothingness" of Punggol; more youths opting for plastic surgery; our vaping policy; cooking oil in the skies; memories of Alhambra, classic theater of yore; and more
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Featuring an essay each by members of Jom’s editorial team, and many others, all within the themes of “Activism”, “Ecology” and “Music”.
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Featuring original work around the themes of “Housing”, “Leftists” and the “Arts”, including a foldout housing map by Kontinentalist.
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