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Criticism of Wong’s new cabinet; WP’s new economic plan; the space programme; uneven access to credit; and more.
The grief-garment becomes a container of memories for a loved one, allowing us to recall our embodied knowledge of them from the past while also imagining them in the present.
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Dear Jomrade, Today we’ve published: * “Singapore This Week”, by Jom * “The fight for Singapore’s wild spaces”, by Choo Yi Feng Ebola. Flotilla. Iran, lah. There’s a lot of depressing global news at the moment. And as our little red dot is valourised yet again as a safe...
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