What if your favourite packet of Maggi isn’t just comfort food, but a mirror of global capitalism, cultural loss, and nostalgia? The writer unpacks how a Swiss invention became a South-east Asian staple; redefining taste, memory, and the meaning of home in just two minutes.
Indonesia, interrupted; nothing happened in Bukit Gombak; our contortions to avoid recognition of Palestine worthy of Olympic gold; the quandaries of long-term planning in an ageing society; Lawrence, the mellow; closure of the storied Cathay cineplexes; and more.
In the 1970s, as female flight attendants in the West were fighting gender discrimination, Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways were building brands around their sexualised female icons. Are we willing to accept sexism when it subsidises “the nation”?
For a Singaporean PhD candidate in New York City, literature is the source of her imagination, activism, and power.
Zelensky chides China, Singapore’s far-right wrongs free speech, M Ravi disbarred, the anglophilic origins of Shangri-La, the Kennedy Centre pays tribute to dance legend Goh Soon Chan, and more.
Zelensky chides China, Singapore’s far-right wrongs free speech, M Ravi disbarred, the anglophilic origins of Shangri-La, the Kennedy Centre pays tribute to dance legend Goh Soon Chan, and more.
Dear reader, In “Singapore This Week”, we look at Pink Dot’s plea to Lawrence Wong; the sad story of MD Sharif Uddin, a Bangladeshi worker and writer forced to leave town; Siddharth Jagadeesh, Singapore’s youngest chess grandmaster; the graduating seniors from Yale-NUS College who expressed solidarity with Palestinians;...
Dear reader, In “Singapore This Week”, we look at Pink Dot’s plea to Lawrence Wong; the sad story of MD Sharif Uddin, a Bangladeshi worker and writer forced to leave town; Siddharth Jagadeesh, Singapore’s youngest chess grandmaster; the graduating seniors from Yale-NUS College who expressed solidarity with Palestinians;...
A more diverse Parliament would generate new ideas, maintain our economic vigour and prevent the systemic decay that often results from protracted one-party dominance, writes a senior counsel and member of the Workers’ Party.
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