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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.
For many of them, necessities such as stable housing, gainful employment, and affordable childcare remain painfully out of reach.
S Iswaran’s jail sentence; the fallout from the East-West line disruption; the seeming twilight of mamak stalls; the landlady who refuses to sell land worth S$70m on which sits Singapore’s last kampung; the late Alfred Wong, modernist architect; the Sea Group’s expansion in Thailand; and more.
A look at the grassroots organisers working to platform marginalised issues and democratise Singapore’s political space.
Iswaran denies popcorn lovers; the mental health travails of Singapore's young; workplace discrimination on the wane, but gaps remain; Singapore fleegal; family trees flourishing at NLB; the chapter closes on Epigram's physical bookstore; Deliveroo hops away from cloud kitchens, and more.
By temporarily shielding us from modernity's cacophony, this multi-disciplinary work allows for a meditation on our relationship with time, and the natural environment.
What happens when we decentre human agency and cast nature as the protagonist?
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