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#112: Iswaran, MRT, and Sherryl Cheong on single parents’ struggles

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Published: October 4, 2024 03:18

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…

Singapore This Week

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Published: October 4, 2024 03:15

S Iswaran’s jail sentence; the fallout from the East-West line disruption; the seeming twilight of mamak stalls; the landlady who refuses to sell land worth S$70m on which sits Singapore’s last kampung; the late Alfred Wong, modernist architect; the Sea…

The untold struggles of single parents in Singapore

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Published: October 4, 2024 01:43

For many of them, necessities such as stable housing, gainful employment, and affordable childcare remain painfully out of reach.

#111: CAPE, Lepak Conversations, SGCR, SG Mental Health Matters

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Published: September 27, 2024 03:08

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 young activists fanning the flame of democracy

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Published: September 27, 2024 02:53

A look at the grassroots organisers working to platform marginalised issues and democratise Singapore’s political space.

Singapore This Week

https://www.jom.media/singapore-this-week-270924/

Published: September 27, 2024 02:07

Iswaran denies popcorn lovers; the mental health travails of Singapore's young; workplace discrimination on the wane, but gaps remain; Singapore fleegal; family trees flourishing at NLB; the chapter closes on Epigram's physical bookstore; Deliveroo hops…

#110: Aparna Nambiar and Teo Xiao Ting on encountering the Earth through art

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Published: September 20, 2024 02:11

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

On exposure and protection: “REFUGE” by The Observatory

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Published: September 20, 2024 01:54

By temporarily shielding us from modernity's cacophony, this multi-disciplinary work allows for a meditation on our relationship with time, and the natural environment.

“SUARA / ORO RUA”: language fails as the earth speaks

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Published: September 20, 2024 01:53

What happens when we decentre human agency and cast nature as the protagonist?

Singapore This Week

https://www.jom.media/singapore-this-week-200924/

Published: September 20, 2024 01:05

Lee Hsien Loong’s warning to the public service, K Shanmugam’s $88m bungalow sale, the environmental perils of mooncake packaging, the future of the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station, our victories at the “Olympics” of vocational skills, three artist…

#109: Why Harpreet Singh joined the opposition

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Published: September 13, 2024 03:45

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

The system has stopped evolving: why Harpreet Singh joined the opposition

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Published: September 13, 2024 02:33

Some 18 years after he interviewed with the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP), Harpreet Singh Nehal has joined the Workers’ Party. How much of a threat to the PAP will the kampung boy turned senior counsel pose?

Singapore This Week

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Published: September 13, 2024 02:00

Our cozy tripartite labour relations model; gig workers finally platformed; Founders’ Memorial; “cancel culture” in Singapore; the Pope’s visit, Singapore Literature Prize winners; and the desirability of working from Johor Bahru.