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Poll news round-up; activists under threat, again; Orchard Towers now home to a church; youngsters spurning nightlife; love and passion in Chinese opera; obituary of Lim Tze Peng, hitherto Singapore’s oldest living artist; efforts to turn Punggol into Singapore’s Silicon Valley; and more.
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Dear reader, Please join us for our first live event of the year! It’s a panel on anti-racism at 1pm on May 28th at The Projector, featuring three of Singapore’s most dynamic young activists: Saza Faradilla, co-founder of End Female Genital Cutting Singapore; Suraendher Kumarr, community organiser at...
In and around public housing estates, there is a trend where a greater mixing of ethnicities is accompanied by less socioeconomic mixing. By focusing on the former, Singapore may be paying insufficient attention to the latter.
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Dear reader, First, in last week’s newsletter, there was a wrong link and a wrong translation: siu ngoh is Cantonese for roast goose, not duck. Apologies—and thanks to all who wrote to me to point them out. Jom is eight months old, and we’re getting there, with...
Among other peculiarities, the public prosecutor chose to proceed on the lightest charge, on only one false statement, and using only two of the many bits of evidence. Its submission, said the judge, "read like a mitigation and were lifted wholesale and repeated for effect by the defence."
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