Rising prices expose our plastic dependence; pickleball pains; a ballad of heroic animals; the world before UNCLOS; and the SG Art Book Fair saga.
Singapore This Week
Singapore This Week is one of Jom’s paid products. It is meant to be your end-of-week catchup. We will decide on the most important stories that week–from arts to politics and tech–and we will offer you Jom’s opinionated view on them. We’re hoping you’ll occasionally (often?) disagree with us.
Support for residents as a precarious ceasefire slows Middle East hostilities; more students going on neighbourhood exchanges; the promises of 3D printing; HYROX for the win; and more.
Baey Yam Keng; tech and its malcontents; the unseen cost of the US-Israel-Iran war; Singapore versus Bangladesh at the National Stadium; Nathania Ong and Lea Salonga on CNA; and more.
POFMAs; denials of entry; how other countries do tax; trust eroding in the age of technological, political, and environmental uncertainty; and Singapore’s high-flying translators.
More mental health professionals needed in Singapore; men dropping out of the workforce to be full-time caregivers; our habitual bird feeders; one of Singapore’s earliest citizen-historians passes on; as does Jessie Wee, creator of the beloved Mooty.
Montfort Junior School goes co-ed; sign-on bonuses to attract more bus drivers; getting Singaporeans to make more close friends; final bows on homeground before Finnish maestro Hannu Lintu is to helm Singapore Symphony Orchestra; and more.
