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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
Of dugongs, mangroves, ancestors, and other victims.
Finally, some scrutiny of GIC, Temasek; Aussie kids banned from social media; our relationship with skateboarding; perfumes, scents, and odours; a ride through Singapore’s playgrounds; a safe and Sinophone year for the Cultural Medallion; and more.
We honour the public figures who left for the great beyond this year after indelibly shaping Singapore’s social, cultural, political, and artistic worlds.
What happens when we turn to machines that approximate humanity, for our very human troubles?
Anjani Sinha; Raeesah-gate finally closes; new treatment modalities for mild depression; South-east Asia’s winds of fate; the young and the homeless; and more.
A distorted Confucianism in service of the state may not allow open mutiny but rebellion can still flower within, as Tan Siyou’s award-winning film “Amoeba” movingly shows through its schoolgirl protagonists.
Lawrence Wong incurs Chinese ire; our designer future; more executed under MDP for drugs; rhino woes; avians and architecture; and more.
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