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”?
Lawrence Wong’s shiny new cabinet, MOH hauls up telemedicine services, marital decoupling made easier, dynamic pricing creeps into concert tickets, HDB makes a play in the property portal space and more.
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Three very different maternal figures took the stage in the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival’s Singaporean offerings: an overprotective mother, a mother in the clutches of dementia, a motherland consumed by conflict. How might we confront these difficult relationships? Our critic tries to find out.
Three very different maternal figures took the stage in the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival’s Singaporean offerings: an overprotective mother, a mother in the clutches of dementia, a motherland consumed by conflict. How might we confront these difficult relationships? Our critic tries to find out.
Singapore home to more millionaires than London, Thambi shutters but may reopen in new location, trishaw uncles gone with the wind, fatal road accidents up, tis’ the season of arts grad shows, Anywheel bike-sharing fleet to expand, and more.
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