Pride & Liberation: Intersectionality in Six Stories
During Pride Month this year, we put out a Call for Flash Fiction & Artworks to gather your voices of the complex intersectionality between queer issues and the legacy…
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The Show with PJ Thum Season 2 Episode 2: The People’s Office For More Accurate EDucation (POFMA’ED)
Historian Thum Ping Tjin ("PJ") reviews POFMA after five years and discussed the latest idiotic use of the law. He salutes Judge Valeria Thean for exposing the truth. He…
TL;DR: Cost vs. Care: Understanding the Trade-Offs in Singapore’s Healthcare System
A summary of our explainer "Cost vs. Care: Understanding the Trade-Offs in Singapore’s Healthcare System" The post TL;DR: Cost vs. Care: Understanding the Trade-Offs in…
Cost vs. Care: Understanding the Trade-Offs in Singapore’s Healthcare System
To deal with an ageing population and rising costs, Singapore’s PAP government prioritises a cost-efficient public health system over a system that tries to make…
The Contradictions of Public Housing in Singapore
The growing challenge and contradictions of Singapore’s hitherto highly successful HDB programme result from trying to achieve mutually exclusive public policy goals…
TL;DR: The Contradictions of Public Housing in Singapore
A short summary of the article "The Contradictions of Public Housing in Singapore". The post TL;DR: The Contradictions of Public Housing in Singapore appeared first on…
Do Singaporeans Own or Lease or Rent Their HDB flat?
An explanation of the technical terms around HDB flat "ownership" and why HDB tenants are "lessees", not "owners" (and why the PAP government calls them "owners"…
Poisoning The Well
Guest: Host: Producer: Table of Contents On this page Opening I grew up watching the great social upheavals of the 2010s in real time. From… The post Poisoning The Well…
The Show with PJ Thum Season 2 Episode 1: Singaporeans Can Create Change
Historian Thum Ping Tjin ("PJ") interviews Lawrence Wong. He also explains how the protests against the Gaza genocide in Singapore demonstrate how Singaporeans have the…
TL;DR: Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 3: Inequality in Singapore
A summary of the Explainer on why the cost of living is unaffordable for most Singaporeans, focusing on inequality in Singapore. The post TL;DR: Why is the Cost of…
TL;DR: Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 2: Cost of Living Policies
A summary of the Explainer on why the cost of living is unaffordable for most Singaporeans, focusing on the PAP government’s economic policies. The post TL;DR: Why is…
TL;DR: Why is the Cost of Living So High? Part 1: The Economic Model
A summary of the Explainer on why the cost of living is unaffordable for most Singaporeans, focusing on the issues within the PAP government's economic model. The post…