Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we talk about S Iswaran’s 12-month jail sentence; the fallout from the longest-ever continuous disruption to a train service; the seeming twilight of mamak stalls; the landlady who refuses to sell land worth S$70m on which sits Singapore’s...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we talk about S Iswaran’s guilty plea; youth mental health concerns; declining discrimination in the workplace; attempts by the legal fraternity to improve work-life balance and access to justice; the Genealogy Society of Singapore’s donation to the National Library...

Dear reader, This is Corrie Tan, Jom’s arts editor, saying hello in a newsletter that begins with goodbye. We are looking for a new head of research. Jean, our Employee #1 who took a gamble on a small media start-up, is leaving Jom in February. Part of me wants...

Dear reader,  This is Jean, taking over newsletter duties. As you can tell from the subject of this email, we’ve got a juicy edition of Jom this week.  “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss Singapore’s tripartite model of labour relations; the new Platform Workers Bill;...

Dear reader, Letters to the editor. Thank you, anonymous Jom reader who works at a government agency, for your response to “From Punggol with love: tracing the origins of the Hougang Spirit” by Kelvin Yap. They said that “...even when marginalised groups are left behind by unthinking and capitalist models...

Dear reader, Letters to the editor. Thank you, Vignesh Ramachandran, who’s based in Dubai, for your thoughtful response to “My authoritarian brain”, Linette Lim’s essay last week. Vignesh, in a few short lines, validates the author’s thesis, defends the systemic flexibility he believes Lee Kuan Yew left...