Singapore enforces harmony, but we often miss the slower work of cultivating it. How do we start building it instead of ...

What players bring into D&D is real, even if the world isn't—and that's why it becomes a place for queer belonging in ...

For the thousands of graduates who study abroad each year, there's always the question of whether to stay overseas or return ...

When dating app fatigue sets in, is it so strange that arranged marriage starts to make sense as a way to find love?

Renée Ting was barely 19 years old in 2011 when she first got the call telling her that she was hired at BooksActually. To the quiet teenager, the bookstore was her escape from the volatility of home.

Have you walked through a cloud of sweet smelling, fast dissolving smoke lately? At this point, I’d bet that you have. It’s no secret that vaporisers and e-cigarettes are prevalent in Singapore. Their ...

This week, as 140 cases doubled into 287, we were forced to take a sobering look at the dismal living conditions inside worker’s dormitories like S11 Punggol. Two very different responses emerged. On ...

In December last year, I was returning home from Yio Chu Kang swimming pool when I saw something which took my breath away: a brand new covered walkway. Not any regular ol’ covered walkway, but a ...

Images from Golden Mile Food Centre/Deen Tulang Specialist by Zachary Tang. Ask a random person on the street about dishes invented in Singapore, and you’ll get a mix of answers, from Chili Crab and ...

In the wee hours before Jalan Sultan’s Textile Centre opens, Zhang Hui, a part-time karung guni man and deity attendant in his 70s, makes his way to an altar behind the strata mall. Located between ...

Top image: Cover image from “The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity”. The article has been amended for clarity. When I studied Little Ironies by ...

What makes a good immigrant? This question has reverberated across social media in the last couple of weeks. It’s often parked under policy debates, or in conversations about xenophobia and racism, ...