The end of horseracing in Singapore has brought with it an avalanche of urgent questions: Where will the horses go? Who will pay for their repatriation? Will they be cared for? It should also evoke deeper considerations of our millennia-old relationship with these majestic creatures.
The unmasking of NRICs and the masking of bungalow deals point to the transactional nature of life here, and to potential challenges for the ruling party.
IC-you; constructive complaining; the historic 1984 general election; the Central Arts Library opens its doors; analogue music in a digital world; a potential presidential pardon for TikTok; and more.
A 17-minute documentary that follows Julianna Maria Hedger, 34, a transwoman, as she navigates her transitioning and gender reassignment journey with the support of her loving family, culminating in a shared liberation and euphoria.
Singapore hands the “Donald Trump of Beijing” FICA directives; help for low-income transnational families; second volume of S.Rajaratnam's biography released, James C. Scott dies; the first Singaporean film to compete for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival; and Grab’s acquisition of Chope.
Dear reader, This is Faris, taking over newsletter duties from Sudhir for the week. I’m in London wading through archives at the British Library. In the silence of the stacks, among other time-travellers, I’ve encountered some intriguing people. There’s a Tamil Muslim woman from Melaka who bequeathed...
Philip Holden uses critical fabulation to untangle the intellectual journey of one of Singapore's founding fathers from the larger, dominant one into which it has been tightly woven. The result is a sense of incompleteness, of loose threads than flawless finality.
UBS report lets the Gini out of the bottle, Singaporeans prefer to keep mum in nanny state, parents of children with autism want greater inclusivity, George Town Festival faces backlash, public art becoming public enemy number one, Grab’s Trans-cab acquisition in peril, and more.
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