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PAP MPs call for inheritance tax; the latest from Parliament; the coolest Nobel Prize for Physics; workplace contretemps; and more.
We disagree with the government’s decision to bring charges against the death penalty abolitionists and pro-Palestine activists last month.
What if your favourite packet of Maggi isn’t just comfort food, but a mirror of global capitalism, cultural loss, and nostalgia? The writer unpacks how a Swiss invention became a South-east Asian staple; redefining taste, memory, and the meaning of home in just two minutes.
Indonesia, interrupted; nothing happened in Bukit Gombak; our contortions to avoid recognition of Palestine worthy of Olympic gold; the quandaries of long-term planning in an ageing society; Lawrence, the mellow; closure of the storied Cathay cineplexes; and more.
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?
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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