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Dear reader, A newsletter in three parts. “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we look at why Singapore handed the “Donald Trump of Beijing” some Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act (FICA) directives; help for low-income transnational families; the second volume of S.Rajaratnam’s biography is released, the passing of...
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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.
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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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