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Foreign labour and Covid-19 outbreaks
NOVEMBER 19 — One of the worst-kept secrets in the country is how out of control migrant workers’ management has been the past decade. Or longer. There are more undocumented...
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'Rakyat jaga rakyat' is not uplifting, but a sad necessity
NOVEMBER 18 — I bought a T-shirt yesterday. It was from one of my favourite local artists, Fahmi Reza, who constantly amazes me with his prolific output that unfortunately gets...
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Caring for teachers’ well-being during lockdowns
NOVMEBER 16 — We need to stop for a few moments now and think about the people who’ve been delivering online lessons for our kids since the lockdowns began. We...
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Remembering the days of being a dual passport-citizen
NOVEMBER 15 — Just before Deepavali, I started cleaning out my room and among the assorted detritus I discovered my old Singapore restricted passport. The blue...
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Two under-the-radar genre movies from two different countries worth investigating
NOVEMBER 14 ― Staying cooped up at home (for a lot of people in the “non-essential” industries at least) for another month, which more or less officially makes 2020 the year...
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Deepavali ads are only skin-deep
NOVEMBER 12 — Movies are exaggerations. They occasionally represent truths, our best intentions or our worst ones, and indeed a fib here and there. All in two hours or so. Add...
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Propagandists are not the solution to the ‘rakyat’s’ woes
NOVEMBER 11 — Watching the annual national Budget presentation is a special kind of torture. The ridiculous table banging, the smugness of whoever’s presenting as though we,...
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Four ideas on mastery from ‘The Queen’s Gambit’
NOVEMBER 9 — Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers to the mini-series. The Queen’s Gambit, released by Netflix near the end of October, is the story of an orphan girl...
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Divided, the world falls
NOVEMBER 8 — So the world’s most powerful democracy held a presidential election a few days ago and well, there were no signs of a clear victory for either candidate...
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Two new apocalypse movies with a sense of humour
NOVEMBER 7 ― When the Covid-19 pandemic first arrived in March, the whole lockdown thing happening across the world had no doubt set minds everywhere back to movies they've seen...
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Asia’s Masters brigade look to Choi for inspiration
NOVEMBER 5 ― When nine Asian golf stars take the famous drive up Magnolia Lane for the upcoming Masters Tournament, they could well find a dose of inspiration from the success...
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Identity politics’ appeal dwindles as unemployment grows
NOVEMBER 5 — February’s euphoric rhetoric about the restoring of “Malay rule” has somewhat died over these past months. Some might wonder where it went. After all, what...
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Letting hope take root, even in the shifting sands of politics
NOVEMBER 4 — I love gardenias. I have loved them ever since my family moved to a house with a tall gardenia tree, with its dark leaves and heavy-scented blooms that still live...
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Collin Morikawa speaks about life on Tour, his roots and rapid success on the world’s leading golf circuit
NOVEMBER 3 ― I’ve realized over the last couple of weeks, after the tough start I had both at the US Open and Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, that this is without...
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How friendships can survive in the Age of Offence
NOVEMBER 2 — There are three certainties in life: Death, taxes and being offended on social media. Nowadays that third category is even more ubiquitous than the grim reaper....