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Dear reader, We’ve started selling tickets for Jom’s launch party! 5-8pm, December 2nd Friday. There’ll be beer, wine, soft drinks and snacks. We are blessed to have two young poets, Jonathan Chan and Poorva Maithani, join us to read their work. There’ll also be a fireside...
Dear reader, Save the date! Jom’s launch party will be held from 5-8pm, December 2nd Friday. Our core team will be there, so will many contributors. We’d love to meet you in person. Jom is going to have many more parties in the future, but we’ll only...
Dear reader, Jom masuk hutan! Let’s enter the forest! In today’s note I’ll talk about Dover Forest East, one of the main points of contention between conservationists and the government in recent years. And given that Jom has published our first-ever piece of videojournalism, “One person’s...
Dear reader, We have two very different pieces out today! “Pricing HDBs fairly: alternative views should be encouraged, not censored”, by Bobby Jayaraman, is a short commentary, outside the paywall, on the perceived government censorship against Yeoh Lam Keong, a former chief economist at GIC. “On her scent”, by Damien...
Dear reader, How many of you love thunder tea rice (lei cha)? Well, somewhat embarrassingly, that’s what got me deeply interested in the imminent razing of numerous small farms in the north-west of Singapore. I had heard whispers about it, but really only became passionate once I found out...
Dear reader, Sometime over the past few years I met a Singaporean who lives in Moscow. Jom is thankful today to publish a piece from them, “Postcard from Moscow: the centre cannot hold”. They give us an insight into the surreal atmosphere on the ground now, as many Russians, fed...
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