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3 days ago | 
straitstimes.com | Nadine Chua |Clement Yong |Zhaki Abdullah
SINGAPORE - Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Leader of the House Indranee Rajah will anchor the newly-created Pasir Ris-Changi GRC, in a surprise move from her Tanjong Pagar GRC ward. This fuels speculation that Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean, who was expected to helm the GRC, could be moved elsewhere, possibly to the hotly-contested Punggol GRC. The WP has been active there, with both parties keeping their electoral cards close to their chest.
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2 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
SINGAPORE – Singapore artists’ takes on France and, conversely, French artists’ impressions of the city-state, will occupy centre stage at the Voilah! France Singapore Festival 2025, which returns from April 23 to June 8. Continuing the previous edition’s focus on arts and culture, Voilah! 2025 has a heavy emphasis on the visual arts.
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2 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
SINGAPORE – According to University of Cambridge ancient history professor Josephine Quinn, the idea of a world divided into cultural blocs is an untenable one that is best consigned to the ash heap of history. For her, civilisational thinking – resorting to shorthand like Western, Eastern or even Russian culture – makes little sense. To borrow the title of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s 2022 hit comedy, everything is actually everywhere all at once.
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
UPDATED Mar 29, 2025, 01:00 PM
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
HONG KONG – With an estimated 80,000 people shuttling between events during Hong Kong’s art week from March 24 to 30, it was Singapore artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s AI-generated animation that was visible across the Victoria harbour. Night Charades, his video homage to the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, offered a spectacle on art museum M+’s gigantic facade. The pride-of-place co-commission by M+ and Art Basel will be a Hong Kong centrepiece until June 29, proving the veteran artist’s pan-Asian cachet.
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4 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
(Clockwise from bottom left) Playwright Myle Yan Tay's Statement Piece stars Tricia Tan, Rusydina Afiqah and Huzir Sulaiman. It will be directed by Checkpoint Theatre co-founder Claire Wong. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEESINGAPORE – Asked for an example of a work of art that has shocked him, playwright Myle Yan Tay reaches back to the Renaissance. The Dutch master of inventive hellscapes, Hieronymus Bosch, has an unholy clutch on his mind.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong |Lee Ying
SINGAPORE – Rows of teddy bears on a table, and tiny white shirts imprinted with the words “PAP Sengkang” neatly arranged at the side. Multi-coloured ribbons could be pinned on the bears’ chest, or for a more feminine look, on their ears – these were among the custom options for some 30 residents who streamed into the People Action Party’s Sengkang East branch for a build-a-bear workshop on March 16.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
SINGAPORE – One of the PAP’s touted new faces, Ms Valerie Lee Nai Yi, was spotted at a job fair at Downtown East on March 22 – fuelling speculation that she could be on the ruling party’s electoral slate in the new Pasir Ris-Changi group representation constituency. Senior Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Desmond Tan, who heads the Pasir Ris Central ward, told the press at the inaugural Pasir Ris-Punggol “career marketplace” that Ms Lee was there at the invitation of the team.
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Clement Yong
New Releases Old Friends STPI, which specialises in print and paper works, brings together a group show of international artists whose works were developed during their residencies at the creative workshop and gallery. This is a typically inventive affair, including 53rd Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion awardee Tobias Rehberger’s “stained tablecloth” that is draped over a table. Visitors are invited to sit around the everyday object in a disruption of gallery space.
