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, by GEORGE Cherian, LIM Linda, YENN Teo You
In our editorial marking the swearing in of the Lawrence Wong Government last May, we urged the new Prime Minister and his team to leave behind the legacy of punitive and paternalistic responses to dissenting views, including in academia. But, entering 2025, it is clear that old habits die hard. (…)
, by NELLIST Isaac
Kokila Annamalai, an anti-death penalty and social justice activist in Singapore, is facing potential prison time and fines for refusing to comply with government censorship.
Annamalai defied a directive under the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), which is (…)
, by ANDREWARTHA Jacob, LYNN, SALMON Alex, SOBIERALSKI Nova, TAY Elijah
Singapore’s once vibrant left and labour movement led the nation’s successful anti-colonial struggle in the 1950s and ’60s. However, dreams of an independent and socialist Singapore were betrayed by Lee Kuan Yew’s People’s Action Party (PAP), whose regime arrested hundreds of trade unionists, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, the undersigned organisations, are deeply concerned over the prosecution of three activists in Singapore for organising Palestine solidarity action.
The three pro-Palestine solidarity activists, Annamalai Kokila Parvathi, Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori, and Mossammad Sobikun Nahar, were (…)
, by HUAT Cheng Beng
Singapore’s lauded public housing scheme is more than a welfare program—it’s a key political and economic institution. But its greatest irony is that whereas it was once meant to be socially distributive and level inequality it has in fact contributed to intensifying wealth inequality between (…)
, by HO Terence
That a large company like Lazada did not consult its workers’ union before sudden layoffs highlights both the limits and continued importance of Singapore’s unique tripartism approach, says the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Terence Ho.
SINGAPORE: Tripartism – the close collaboration (…)
, by GANESAN Natasha
Under the framework, healthcare workers can take “immediate action” to protect themselves from harm, says the Health Ministry.
SINGAPORE: A framework aimed at protecting healthcare workers from abuse and harassment was launched on Wednesday (Dec 13).
The framework provides all healthcare (…)
, by GOH Timothy
SINGAPORE – Delivery workers and other freelance drivers who are injured at work will soon be able to apply for grocery vouchers to help tide them over during their recovery.
Workers who are members of the National Trades Union Congress’ (NTUC) affiliated associations – National Delivery (…)
, by NAIR Subhas
Dear friends and supporters,
As some of you may have seen in the news this week, I have been sentenced to 6 weeks in jail for my Brownface response video response (made 4 years ago) and a couple of tweets calling out homophobia and systemic racism. I’m currently in the midst of appealing these (…)
, by EWE Koh
Four years ago, Singaporean siblings Subhas and Preeti Nair packed their camera gear, headed to a popular hawker center in downtown Singapore, and shot a video that would become the talk of the town—and ultimately land Subhas with a jail sentence.
In the video, they rapped about racism in (…)
, by TJIN Thum Ping
Singapore’s PAP government is gambling that unrestrained economic growth can outpace the rising cost of living. Its policy is thus to subsidise incomes in the short term while waiting for prices to stabilise. But this strategy rests on flawed assumptions, exacerbated by its questionable (…)
, by ONG Justin
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights groups said that the repeal of Section 377A is long overdue. They welcomed the relief it brings and hoped for more open conversations about challenges the LGBTQ community face. However, they expressed disappointment at Constitutional (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, as organisations advocating for LGBTQ+ equality in Singapore, are disappointed with the Court of Appeal’s landmark ruling on Section 377A, which comes as a setback for all who were hoping for a resounding conclusion to this decades-long fight for equality. Despite recognising the current (…)
, by Coconuts Singapore
Singapore slipped into the second-worst category any country could ever be in with regards to civil liberties, an annual report by Civicus Monitor researchers showed.
The city-state has been downgraded from “obstructed” to being a “repressed” state in the People Power Under Attack 2021 report (…)
, by WEI Lim Tse
New data on household budgets in Singapore shows that in order for hawker food culture to thrive, and for stall owners to earn more than a subsistence income, they must be paid about S$1 more per plate.
There is a general understanding in Singapore that food hawker incomes are too low. (…)
, by Agence France-Presse
Bangladeshi migrant worker MD Sharif Uddin used to spend his days off with friends outside his cramped Singapore dormitory, but coronavirus curbs have for 18 months left him stuck inside during his spare time.
More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in (…)
, by Coconuts Singapore
A Singapore rapper who got into trouble for a controversial rap video will be charged Monday with promoting racial discord.
The police said last night that Subhas Nair, 29, will be charged with four counts of attempting to sow discord between different religious and ethnic groups after (…)
, by ANNAMALAI Kokila
There are already signs the law will be used to divide civil society and cast a dark shadow over internationalism.
When the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill, or Fica, was tabled in Singapore’s Parliament on September 13, local activists were watching closely. We were anxious that (…)
, by TJIN Thum Ping
Singapore’s PAP government has long meddled in the domestic affairs of its neighbours. If the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act (FICA) applied to PAP activities abroad, most of its efforts would be illegal. This is hypocrisy of the highest order.
During the second reading of the (…)
, by CHENG Nien Yuan
In the first substantive chapter of Raffles Renounced, co-editor Alfian Sa’at asks his interlocutor and fellow theatre-maker Neo Hai Bin whether Singapore’s Bicentennial in 2019—the 200th anniversary of Singapore’s colonisation initiated by the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles—would be remembered (…)
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