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STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 14, 2021 • 2 min read

Press freedom Singapore news site suspended, critics fear censorship

By Agence France-Presse • Sep 14, 2021
A Singaporean news site, The Online Citizen, often critical of authorities had its licence suspended for failing to declare funding sources, regulators said, with a rights group slamming the move as "unacceptable censorship"

STORY OF THE DAY • Sep 09, 2021 • 11 min read

Workers' rights Singapore’s home cleaning scheme offers better life for maids

By Rachel Genevieve Chia • Sep 09, 2021
Demand for part-time home cleaning is up in Singapore amid Covid-triggered shortages of full-time household help. A newly-formalised scheme gives the country’s migrant cleaners better working conditions, but experts say the impact so far is limited

Aug 24, 2021 • 6 min read
Opinion

In Vietnam, Harris must not ignore human rights for geopolitics

US Vice President Kamala Harris heads to Vietnam today on the second stop of her Southeast Asia tour. But with geopolitical considerations guiding affairs, Amnesty International's Carolyn Nash says the region's many human rights issues must not be ignored
By Carolyn Nash • Aug 24, 2021

Aug 10, 2021 • 11 min read
Analysis

What Singapore today can learn from its ethnic riots of the 1960s

As Singapore marks 56 years of independence, Joshua Wan turns back the clock to a time when ethnic relations in the city-state were more fraught, revisiting and comparing two race riots in the 1960s as he draws insights for maintaining peaceful relations today
By Joshua Wan • Aug 10, 2021

Aug 05, 2021 • 9 min read
Covid-19

Care groups adapt as Singapore’s elders survive amid ‘new normal’

Social isolation among the elderly was already a growing concern within fast-modernising Singapore prior to the pandemic. Now, with social distancing measures in place and health concerns abounding, social service groups must be creative to reach the city-state's atomised elders
By Weilee Yap • Aug 05, 2021

Jul 12, 2021 • 7 min read
Opinion

Transformative justice: Abolishing the death penalty in Singapore

Singapore is known for its harsh approach to crime and punishment, justified on the grounds of deterrence. But the Transformative Justice Collective is looking to change this mindset, promoting alternative approaches to criminal justice in the city-state
By Kirsten Han • Jul 12, 2021

Jun 22, 2021 • 3 min read
Singapore

Singaporean woman jailed 30 years for torturing, killing maid

Gaiyathiri Murugayan, the Singaporean woman guilty of starving, assaulting and ultimately killing a domestic worker, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday June 22
By Agence France-Presse • Jun 22, 2021

Jun 10, 2021 • 6 min read
Opinion

What Singapore’s community cats tell us about the city-state

What's in a name? For the free cats of Singapore, writing them off as 'strays' misses the fuller story of these feline residents, with the community cats that roam the city-state offering an insight into the psyche of Singaporeans
By Stephanie C. Heng • Jun 10, 2021

May 07, 2021 • 7 min read
Poverty

The groups plugging holes in Singapore’s social safety net

In a state where the government has a heavy hand, people are pushing beyond traditional notions of welfare, with community-organised groups emerging in the name of mutual aid to reach out to the people left behind by the city-state’s rapid growth
By Charmaine Sew • May 07, 2021