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![The Perks of Relearning Your Own Mother Tongue]()
The Perks of Relearning Your Own Mother Tongue
When English is all you need to get by, what's the value of learning your mother tongue?
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![Why Singaporean Students Will Be Better Creators With Fewer Exams and Smaller Classes]()
Why Singaporean Students Will Be Better Creators With Fewer Exams and Smaller Classes
They all just need a bit of room, in every sense, to do their best work.
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![When You Feel Like a Stranger in Your Own Family]()
When You Feel Like a Stranger in Your Own Family
Why do so many Singaporeans feel like outsiders in their own families?
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![The Fierce Ah Mas Playing Water Polo]()
The Fierce Ah Mas Playing Water Polo
For 70-year-old Fong Nam, her greatest fear isn’t dying—it’s losing the strength to play water polo with her fellow elderly friends.
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![Lights, Camera, Exploitation: The Dark Side of Singapore’s Acting Industry]()
Lights, Camera, Exploitation: The Dark Side of Singapore’s Acting Industry
How long can the local entertainment industry go with acting like things are just fine?
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![10 Weeks of Extra Parental Leave Is Great. Guilt-Tripping Employees for Taking It Isn’t.]()
10 Weeks of Extra Parental Leave Is Great. Guilt-Tripping Employees for Taking It Isn’t.
Dear employers, leave is leave.
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![In the Afterglow: The Cancer Survivors Finding Light In Their Night Routines]()
In the Afterglow: The Cancer Survivors Finding Light In Their Night Routines
In the stillness after sunset.
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![Kishore Mahbubani’s Advice for the Cynical Singaporean]()
Kishore Mahbubani’s Advice for the Cynical Singaporean
Is being born in Singapore still a cause for celebration today?
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![‘I’ll Play Till I Die’: The Rowdy Ah Mas Confronting Mortality Through Water Polo]()
‘I’ll Play Till I Die’: The Rowdy Ah Mas Confronting Mortality Through Water Polo
"I’ve always been fun, I just forgot about it till now. I’ve finally found myself again."
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![The Man At The Centre of Singapore’s Property Agent Drama]()
The Man At The Centre of Singapore’s Property Agent Drama
In a city known for its sky-high housing costs, real estate agency Homeseller is disrupting the market.
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![Bridge Jobs: The New Corporate Gap Year in the Age of Burnout]()
![The Art of Coping: What Gen Z Students Get Up To to Get By]()
![In the Afterglow: The Cancer Survivors Finding Light In Their Night Routines]()
![Singapore’s Longest Curved HDB Corridor, and the Distance Between Our Neighbours]()
![In Their Own Skin: Portraits of Eczema in Singapore]()
![The Last Generation of Singapore’s Newspaper Stand Vendors]()
![This Body is Not Mine: Living With Gender Dysphoria]()
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![Singaporean Workers Clear the Air Around Vaping in Offices]()
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![New Bahru and the Shopping Mall-ification of Our Historical Buildings]()
New Bahru and the Shopping Mall-ification of Our Historical Buildings
How much of its heritage does it truly preserve, and who is it really for?
Random Opinion
"Whether it’s mimicking a model essay or memorising memorisation techniques, the cramming, rote-learning and stacks of mock exams are about as useful in the age of ChatGPT as me trying to predict the weather."
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