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Cold Storage’s curious anniversary; the perils of live commerce; changing home ownership mores; a fascinating historical saga stretching across Egypt, Singapore, and Indonesia; and the renaissance of dinner theatre.
It’s easy to trust a Finn. But how do you get a Finn to trust you? Corrie Tan spends a year in the “happiest” country in the world and tries to find out.
Daniel Hui’s fêted feature, refused classification in Singapore, is both admonition and plea. Through a series of legal cases—some known, others forgotten—it asks us to look, to listen, and thus, to care.
The PAP’s biennial conference; yet another “blackface” incident; the solitude-loneliness spectrum; a treaty discussion in New Zealand; ’tis the season for giving; tech-powered building designs; and more.
The harrowing, and powerful, testimony of a rape and molest victim underscores the need to embed consent as a cultural norm. This is only possible through greater institutional sensitivity, and sex education that’s both comprehensive and nuanced.
The crisis facing local hawkers; good news about low-income families on aid; improvements in foreign worker dorms; the US returns historical artefacts to Thailand; two Singaporean, Hokkien-language films gaining attention in China; an initiative to help women return to the tech workforce; and more.
Singapore has made big strides towards gender equality, but more support and backing is needed for women from minority groups.
The deepfake porn scandal at the Singapore Sports School; a proposed law to give police here unprecedented powers to protect scam victims; the old Market Street carpark; the revival of butoh, the dance form born in the crucible of post-war Japan; a new AI model that understands Singlish; and more.
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