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Dec 5, 2024 | 
jom.media | Leon Perera |Thiyaghessan Poongundranar |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden
With the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) holding 90-100 percent of elected seats in Parliament for 60 odd years, Singapore’s politics is unlike that of almost any other national electoral democracy. It is often argued that such political dominance allows for more “long-termism” in policymaking.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
jom.media | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden |Harpreet Singh Nehal |Thiyaghessan Poongundranar
Whenever I speak to my dad, I inevitably get drawn into long conversations on Singapore politics. Like many Singaporeans his age, my dad loves to complain about how today’s 4G leaders are not as competent as Lee Kuan Yew (henceforth LKY) and his first-generation cabinet. One day, I finally bit the bullet. “How exactly are our current leaders different?” I asked my dad. In a trice, he whipped out his phone to play a YouTube video clearly bookmarked in anticipation of this moment.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
jom.media | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden |Harpreet Singh Nehal |Pritam Singh’s likeability
Lee Hsien Loong, Lawrence Wong, Pritam Singh, and Ong Ye Kung are the Singaporean politicians who should be happiest with the results from Jom’s first voter sentiment survey. The senior minister, prime minister, leader of the opposition, and minister for health, respectively, are universally liked across age and racial groups.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
jom.media | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
Dear reader, This is Jean, taking over newsletter duties. As you can tell from the subject of this email, we’ve got a juicy edition of Jom this week. “Singapore This Week”. In our weekly digest, we discuss Singapore’s tripartite model of labour relations; the new Platform Workers Bill; the estimated S$335m bill for the Founders’ Memorial; “cancel culture” in Singapore; winners of the Singapore Literature Prize; the desirability of working from Johor Bahru; and more.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
jom.media | Philip B. Holden |Harpreet Singh Nehal |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Brian Charles
Lee Kuan Yew was a 73-year-old senior minister when 30-year-old Harpreet Singh Nehal publicly challenged him. The backdrop, to that 1996 televised forum on the Singapore Dream, was that political leaders had become increasingly concerned about the perceived lack of grit amongst the “post-independence generation”: those, like Harpreet, born after 1965.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
jom.media | Teo You Yenn |Jonathan Chan |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Aryan Pershad
In school, we are given questions and told to find the answers. We’re led to believe that challenges arise from complex solutions, and we’re trained to work with those complexities. But I had the fortunate misery of learning, earlier than any child should, that life is actually about discovering the right questions. For at the age of six, my whole world was turned into a question: what is wrong with me?
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
jom.media | Teo You Yenn |Jonathan Chan |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Kristian-Marc James Paul
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
jom.media | Jonathan Chan |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Kristian-Marc James Paul |Reeta Raman
A memory of Houston is a memory of the sprawl. Most days we are on the road. The sun’s glare filters through the windshield. Trucks hurtle around us. From Westheimer and Gessner onto the I-10, the Katy Freeway, the Sam Houston Tollway. The air is hot and dry in the summers, cool and pollen-rich in the fall. The Greater Houston area is 35 times the size of Singapore and contains seven million people. Texas is 27 times the size of Greater Houston.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
jom.media | Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
Dear reader,How did the oil spill affect you? Not since the 2015 regional haze crisis, I think, have Singaporeans been this connected by an environmental disaster. I was quite surprised, and then relieved, to read about oil absorbent booms being deployed in the waters off Pasir Ris Park, on the opposite end of the island, and near where I live.
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May 31, 2024 | 
jom.media | Harpreet Singh Nehal |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Philip B. Holden |Brian Charles
Singapore’s next general election (GE) is due by November 2025. Given the recent leadership handover by former Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong to new PM Lawrence Wong, there is considerable speculation that the government may call it sometime this year.
