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![Meet Azah Rahman, the Singaporean Who Found Work-Life Balance in Dubai]()
When Azah Rahman and Fahmi Latiff moved to Dubai in 2013, it was meant to be a two-year stint. More than a decade on, they've built a life and a family there.
Now, with tensions rising across the Middle East, they’re being forced to ask: stay, or leave?
Meet Azah Rahman, the Singaporean Who Found Work-Life Balance in Dubai
When Azah Rahman and Fahmi Latiff moved to Dubai in 2013, it was meant to be a two-year stint. More than a decade on, they've built a life and a family there.
Now, with tensions rising across the Middle East, they’re being forced to ask: stay, or leave?
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![If We Made It Free to Have Children, Would Singaporeans Have More?]()
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![What the Middle East Conflict Actually Means for Singaporeans]()
What the Middle East Conflict Actually Means for Singaporeans
"The era of cheap, uninterrupted global supply chains is over."
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![The Limits of Performative Harmony Through an Immigrant’s Eyes]()
The Limits of Performative Harmony Through an Immigrant’s Eyes
Singapore enforces harmony, but we often miss the slower work of cultivating it.
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![Overseas Grad Diaries: Coming Home to a Tighter Job Market]()
Overseas Grad Diaries: Coming Home to a Tighter Job Market
Somewhere between leaving and coming back, perspectives tend to shift.
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![What Does It Take to Run a Domestic Worker Agency Without Losing Your Soul?]()
What Does It Take to Run a Domestic Worker Agency Without Losing Your Soul?
Running an ethical domestic worker employment agency shouldn't be perceived as radical. And yet it is.
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![10 Questions With Animal Lovers League Volunteers Who Lost Faith in Their Leaders]()
10 Questions With Animal Lovers League Volunteers Who Lost Faith in Their Leaders
"To call us ‘backstabbers’ is deeply hurtful and profoundly unfair."
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![Growing Old in Singapore Isn’t the Hard Part. It’s the Feeling of Being Stuck.]()
Growing Old in Singapore Isn’t the Hard Part. It’s the Feeling of Being Stuck.
How do we plan for a life with more chapters than we expected?
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![Inside a 44-Year-Old Man’s Annual O-Level Exam Pilgrimage]()
Inside a 44-Year-Old Man’s Annual O-Level Exam Pilgrimage
Some people run marathons. Others sign up for Hyrox. Linus Lin sits for O-level exams.
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![How Pickleball Became Singapore’s Latest Social Status Sport]()
How Pickleball Became Singapore’s Latest Social Status Sport
Just two years ago, almost no one in Singapore had heard of pickleball.
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![The Singaporean Mum and Daughter Making Lebanese Olive Oil That’s Rooted in Resistance]()
The Singaporean Mum and Daughter Making Lebanese Olive Oil That’s Rooted in Resistance
"The easiest way to spread awareness was through a product—you can get connected to the land, the people, the ground."
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![We Gave a Retiree Band the Stage They Deserved. Here’s Why.]()
We Gave a Retiree Band the Stage They Deserved. Here’s Why.
For all our talk about community spirit, why is it still so hard for people to create it on their own?
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![Identity Politics and the Malay-Muslim Community? Penat lah]()
Identity Politics and the Malay-Muslim Community? Penat lah
The existential fatigue of getting your identity and loyalty examined yet again.
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![Malatang, Mixue, and the Taste of a Changing Singapore]()
Malatang, Mixue, and the Taste of a Changing Singapore
"I don't think I should have to learn Chinese just to order a meal."
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![Mixue, Luckin, Scarlett: Too Fast, Too Many, Too Soon?]()
Mixue, Luckin, Scarlett: Too Fast, Too Many, Too Soon?
How do we hold on to what’s familiar while opening our doors to those who want to make Singapore home too?
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![Steven Lee: The Man Who Keeps Singapore’s Journalists Up at Night (Sort Of)]()
Steven Lee: The Man Who Keeps Singapore’s Journalists Up at Night (Sort Of)
Meet the retiree who CCs the prime minister in emails about the plural form.
Random Opinion
“It’s not romance I’m avoiding; it’s uncertainty. With arranged marriages, there are fewer choices, but these choices are vetted and much more grounded and real compared to dating online.”