Last month, Halimah Yacob, Singapore’s president, wrote on Facebook, “Rapists should not be spared the cane just because they are fifty years old.”

“It felt like I was being transported to some mythical Asian commune of art, journalism, activism and passion, like a Bandung Conference for artists,” writes Jom's editor-in-chief Sudhir T Vadaketh about his time in Siem Reap, Cambodia. jom.media/postcard-from-…

This week, user your local pontianak said that Sultan Hussein Muazzam Shah, the co-ruler of Singapore together with the British EIC, “sold Singapore, got RM10k every month and ran off with his gay lover.” Juicy. Also untrue. Faris Joraimi explains in #STW. 1/8 jom.media/singapore-this…

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In this week’s essay, Jom scrutinises the Workers’ Party’s 2019 housing paper and comments by the People’s Action Party. Our conclusion is that the PAP has certainly misrepresented the WP. jom.media/did-the-pap-mi…

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When Institute of Policy Studies - IPS Director Janadas Devan launched its 35th anniversary conference this morning, he said that the full video interviews of the "loving critics" of IPS were up on its Youtube page. They're there! I'll post this very blunt one by Sudhir T Vadaketh here. youtu.be/vONYqhjpK_E

Join our conversation with 3 SG-based journalists: Shibani Mahtani, international investigative correspondent at The Washington Post; Karishma Vaswani, Asia politics columnist and commentator at Bloomberg; and Sue-Lin Wong 黄淑琳, SEA correspondent at The Economist jom-correspondents-in-asia.peatix.com

Second essay by @aleithialow for Jom Another great read!

How are you doing? What matters to you? The first part of our survey attempts to unearth answers to fundamental questions about life in our city-state. jom.media/singaporeans-p…