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Dengue in Europe; Chinese cabbage bathed in formaldehyde; Japan’s incredible soft power; ethno-fascism; and a new anthology featuring stories of nine queer families.
Less news, less reading, more video, and a still neutered mainstream media point to numerous challenges Singapore faces in nurturing a thinking, literate society.
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.
Housing prices, history of May Day rallies and unions, cat abuse a serious problem, library@esplanade to move, Dyson powers up battery plant, and more.
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."
Fine-tuning election messaging, the sudden cancelling of an LGBTQ party, Pesta Raya: Malay festival of arts, Singlish key word signs, Foodpanda and TADA hitch a ride together, and more.
Hong Kong is arguably the only other geography that one can compare Singapore to: both British colonial ports, Chinese-majority, East-meets-West, Asian Tiger city-states. Here's why many Hong Kongers are now moving south.
Get to know PSP's new secretary-general, including what his new role means for him, as well as his favourite books and food.
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