Tsen-Waye Tay

Apr 5, 2024 | jom.media | Faris Joraimi |Tsen-Waye Tay

Dear reader,Before we discuss this week’s content, I just want to say that we’ve heard you. We know that you want more events, especially in-person ones. Our last Jom Cakap, featuring three of Asia’s best journalists, drew almost 200 people. We felt the love. Our next series of three is reserved for Jom’s Supporters and Patrons, those in our upper two tiers.

Apr 5, 2024 | jom.media | Tsen-Waye Tay |Lin Yanqin |Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee

The photographs circulating online of Yazan Kafarneh, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy on his deathbed in Rafah, southern Gaza, are meant to shock. Taken with his family’s permission, they show the “skeleton” his father said he’d turned into, of a human being seemingly without be-ing.

Feb 15, 2024 | jom.media | Jonathan Lin |Tsen-Waye Tay |Charmaine Poh |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

National servicemen can expect to face violence not only from their enemies, but sometimes their comrades too. In May 2018, Kok Yuen Chin, a 22-year-old corporal with the Singapore Civil Defence Force, was celebrating his imminent “operationally ready date (ORD)”. As part of the festivities, his fellow servicemen had chucked him into a 12m-deep pump well at their fire station. After more than 30 mins in the water, during which his colleagues had tried to save him, Kok drowned.

Feb 8, 2024 | jom.media | Jonathan Lin |Tsen-Waye Tay |Charmaine Poh |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

Singapore’s public housing model is often heralded as a massive success. Over 80 percent of the resident population lives in a Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat, of which about 90 percent own them. These high rates of public housing ownership are quite rare, globally, earning HDB plaudits while its work has been turned into case studies at top universities around the world. “Lessons from the best public housing program in the world”, headlined an article from The World Bank in 2018.

Dec 14, 2023 | jom.media | Tsen-Waye Tay

Dear reader,Hello from the whole Jom team. We’re co-writing this final newsletter of the year. Final? Well, for those who’ve only recently joined our Jommunity, we’re all off for the last two weeks of the year, and for one week in June. We’ll maintain this policy until we’re big enough to accommodate leave schedules and absences while maintaining our editorial standards. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we build this media outfit together.