Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, 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 (...)
The fingers began pointing rather quickly, as one can expect in Singapore, when domestic and international media began publishing the figures and graphs that indicated that COVID-19 was tearing through the migrant worker dormitories. What happened next was a foregone conclusion: citizens (...)
, by RATCLIFFE Rebecca
Jolovan Wham faces large fines over incident in which he briefly held a smiley face sign outside a police station
An activist who held a sign bearing a smiley face as part of a one-man protest in Singapore has been charged with unlawful assembly.
Jolovan Wham said he held the cardboard sign (...)
, by WHAM Jolovan
An interview with Jolovan Wham on Singaporeans’ latest push back against state retaliation.
With the country’s elections slated to take place next month, Singapore is technically a democracy. Yet for decades, the country has been ruled by the conversative party, the People’s Action Party, who not (...)
The High Court’s decision (on 30 March) to dismiss legal challenges mounted by three men against Section 377A of the Penal Code is “yet another start” to a “long fight” for LGBTIQ rights, says Singaporean filmmaker Boo Junfeng.
Narrating his experience of receiving a “text from the lawyers” notifying him that he had lost the constitutional challenge in the High Court “at the end of an exhausting day”, Mr Boo revealed how he “broke down a little” when he had to break the news to his crew of volunteers who were (...)
, by HAN Kirsten
The crowd was already pumped when Pink Dot’s spokesperson, Paerin Choa, took over the microphone. The sun had set over an afternoon of enthusiastic pink-clad picnicking. Performers—from popular local rappers and indie bands to glamorous drag queens—had built the atmosphere up to one of euphoria (...)
, by BENNER Tom
Human rights groups denounce two-week sentence as an affront to free speech and call for Seelan Palay’s release.
Singapore - A 34-year-old performance artist is serving a two-week jail sentence for what he and his supporters consider a peaceful one-man protest.
Human rights groups and arts (...)
Lee Kuan Yew will zing The Far Eastern Economic Review one last time before it goes out of business
Dow Jones Corporation, the owner of the soon-to- be-defunct Far Eastern Economic Review, will pay US$175,000 in damages and costs rather than wait for a hearing over damages* on a ruling (...)
, by Correspondant(es)
The island republic sends forth yet another electoral Trojan horse
Given the Singapore government’s oft-repeated mantra that multi-party politics is not appropriate for a small city-state, it might have surprised outside observers when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently unveiled plan to (...)
, by BERTHELSEN John
Singapore again ousts the editor of the Asia Sentinel. You can say one thing for Singaporeans. They have long memories. And if you think the place is loosening up, think again.
In 1988 — 21 years ago — my projected three-year stint as the Asian Wall Street Journal’s correspondent in Singapore (...)
, by YUENYONG Kan
Will the fiction of holding democracy hostage for “national security” fall with the information age?
Last September, an old man died of heart failure in a Singapore local hospital, aged 82.
While not many Thai people know him, he was Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, known universally as JBJ. He was (...)
, by Correspondant(es)
The island republic’s premier sovereign wealth fund takes another massive writeoff.
Although global markets have stabilized at least temporarily over the last couple of weeks, there is no sign of a letup for Temasek, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund that has already chalked up massive paper (...)
, by Correspondant(es)
The Lee family again uses its tame courts to wipe out political opposition
Singapore’s dynastic Lee family has again put an opposition party out of business, this time with an order from the Singapore High Court to the leaders of the Singapore Democratic Party to pay S$610,000 in damages (...)
, by BOYLE Peter
A pile of bags and clothing on an old shopfront verandah on Cuff Road in Singapore’s Little India is “home” to a group of about 50 migrant workers who have been spat out by an economy that relies heavily on so-called “guest workers”.
All are men from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, lured to (...)
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