Dear reader, Print issue No. 2. You can buy it now through our web shop. (Supporters and Patrons: details about your complimentary copy are in yesterday’s newsletter.) Orders placed before December 16th will get to you by the end of this year. Get those festive gifts! “Singapore This Week...

Dear reader, 630-830pm, Dec 3rd: launch of Jom’s print issue #2. Please register here (free) to join us at the casual poet library for the launch of our second print issue. It’s going to be chill, just a chance for you to mingle with the Jom team at...

Dear reader, This is Abhishek, subbing in for Sudhir who is luxuriating in the mountains of northern Thailand. If you read last week’s newsletter, you’ll know Charmaine, Sudhir and I were in Chiang Mai for the Splice Beta media festival. It was, in a word, revelatory.  We often...

Dear reader, Hello from Chiang Mai! Abhishek, Charmaine and I are here for the annual Splice Beta media festival. The organisers invited Jom to speak about our ongoing efforts to build a sustainable independent media firm. Still some way to go, but we’re grateful for the opportunity. Thank you...

Dear reader, Another week, another Lee/Li. This time, there’s the news that Li Hongyi, son of Lee Hsien Loong and Ho Ching, has allegedly resigned as the director of Singpass. His apparently leaked resignation message is quite telling. We may write about it in more detail in a...

Dear reader, “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss the Lees’ political asylum in the UK; the ethics of assisted dying; Singapore’s war on drugs; the latest prize for Khir Johari’s magisterial The Food of Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels through the Archipelago; playwright Joel Tan’s...