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Surekha A. Yadav
Born and bred in Singapore, Surekha A. Yadav is a freelance journalist in Southeast Asia.
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Are Singaporeans ready to be tracked?
JUNE 14 — A wearable contact tracing device will apparently be Singapore’s next weapon in the fight against Covid-19. The government has announced that a Bluetooth...
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What should Black Lives Matter mean to non-Americans?
JUNE 7 — This past week, the world watched as parts of the United States were literally set on fire. Protests erupted following the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by a...
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One country, one system
MAY 31 — Hong Kong, as we know it, has come to an end. Last week, China's National People's Congress (NPC) voted to enact a controversial national security law in Hong Kong. The...
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Singapore, be kind to otters
MAY 24 — One bright spot during the general disruption of Covid-19 has been the otters. These adorable half seal-, half dog-like critters have made a comeback in...
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Is it wrong to love the lockdown?
MAY 17 — So, literally billions of people have spent weeks locked down. Restricted or entirely forbidden from leaving our homes, life as we know it has been absolutely...
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Wall Street may be deadlier than Covid-19
MAY 10 — “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the...
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We all live In America
MAY 3 — There is one obvious beneficiary of the Covid-19 lockdown — TV. I have never spent so much time in front of the box or with my lap-top propped up on my tummy...
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In Singapore, we are all ‘workers’
APRIL 26 ― Three hundred thousand foreign “workers” ― usually men between the ages of 18-50 ― live and work in Singapore. Employed under work permits, they are...
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Covid-19 vs freedom
APRIL 19 — Covid-19 has changed the world forever. This isn’t to say I believe we will never sit in bars, get on airplanes and take holidays to far-flung places ever again....
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The world after oil
APRIL 12 — The world is still in the grip of Covid-19. If you scan the newspapers and news sites, the headlines and virtually every other story is about nothing but...
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As Singapore goes into a partial lockdown...
APRIL 5 — Singapore has mandated that all non-essential workplaces will transition to work from home and schools will shut from April 8. People are now being...
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Singapore launches a fiscal bazooka
MARCH 29 — Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Covid-19 and the costs associated with the shutdowns being used to contain it are wreaking havoc on the...
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Covid-19: A new world order
MARCH 22 — For some time, normal life carried on around the virus. It was, for many people, something happening elsewhere or to other people but no longer. Covid-19...
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Singapore’s Election 2020 now imminent?
MARCH 15 — Singapore has released the electoral boundaries which will be used in the next general election. The island nation typically changes the boundaries and number...
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How Covid-19 is changing how we behave
MARCH 8 — And so the world enters another week in its war against Covid-19. There have now been over 100,000 cases and 3,000 deaths from the virus. Factories, schools and...