Rice Media

Established in 2017 by Mark Tan and Julian Wong, Rice Media is a media organization located in Singapore. It positions itself as "Asia's alternative voice," offering insights and commentary on a wide range of subjects, including food history and social issues. As of March 2020, Rice Media has built a following of over 39,000 on Facebook and 7,000 on Instagram.

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Bankrupt at 31: Finding Freedom on the Other Side of Financial Ruin

3 weeks ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

“Once I declared bankruptcy, I felt 10 kilograms lighter,” Adams Yap tells me. For most people, bankruptcy is a private source of shame. For Adams, it’s part of his public persona. The 31-year-old entrepreneur documents his “road to zero”—zero debt, that is—on TikTok. Whenever he chips away at his debt, he updates his bio. As of May 16, 2025, he still owes his creditors $243,708.01. A pretty respectable progress from his original debt of $520,324.03.
After the Vote: HOME’s Call for a Singapore That Values Migrant Worker Lives Over Profit

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

For years, advocates pushing for a ban on transporting workers on the backs of lorries have faced the same rebuffs: It’s “not practical” or “”. But for advocacy group Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME), that’s not good enough. As a local charity supporting the rights and welfare of migrant workers, HOME has long campaigned for a ban on this unsafe form of transport.
Did We Hope for Too Much?

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

This morning, as the GE2025 results sink in, I’m wondering two things: (1) How good does an opposition candidate need to be to get elected? (2) How bad does a People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate need to be to get voted out of office? It seems that the answer to both of these questions is: More than you think. Despite the “noticeable step-up in calibre” of opposition candidates, the ruling PAP took 65.57 percent of the overall vote share, up from its GE2020 showing of 61.24 percent.
Tracing the Edges of Singapore's Electoral Boundaries

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

Electoral boundaries in Singapore aren’t marked by fences or signs. These invisible lines crisscross our neighbourhoods—often unbeknownst to us—delineating where one constituency ends and another begins. These lines, drawn and occasionally redrawn by the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee, determine if residents get to vote, who represents them in Parliament, and who residents call when they want more covered walkways.
Chee Soon Juan and the Politics of Persistence

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

Chee Soon Juan is a name every Singaporean voter knows. Dr Chee, the leader of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), and one of Singapore’s most recognisable opposition figures, has been the subject of many headlines over his 33-year political career. Many of them have not been kind. Over the years, the media has painted the firebrand politician as rude, publicity hungry, and a liar.
When Political Candidates Are Too Much Like Us

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

Nobody really warns you about what it’s like when your private chats get leaked. It’s unthinkable—your private, unfiltered word vomit, meant for a trusted audience, blasted on the internet for all to read. This is what Workers’ Party new face Andre Low had to contend with when over 30 screenshots of private messages from a Telegram group chat were leaked onto Reddit recently.
The Winners and Losers of GE2025’s Televised Non-debates

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

The live election roundtables Q&As hosted by Mediacorp last Sunday (April 27th) and last night (April 29th) could have been emails. I feel qualified to say that because I’ve been part of far too many meetings that could have been WhatsApp messages. These Q&A sessions—one in English and one in Mandarin—were the only two live televised interparty forums for GE2025.
The Workers’ Party’s Jackson Au Isn’t Ranting On Reddit Anymore

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

It’s about 50 minutes into my interview with Workers’ Party new face Jackson Au when his phone goes into a frenzy, rattling with notifications. A Workers’ Party media liaison who’d been silently listening in on our conversation leans over the table and offers a helpful explanation: “Parliament was just dissolved.”For months, there’d been speculation that the General Election would be held around May. The release of new electoral boundaries in March only added credence to the rumours.
After the Vote: Jack Sim Wants a Singapore Where We Sanitise Toilets, Not Critical Voices

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

Jack Sim (also known as Mr Toilet) has a success story that reminds us that even bathrooms can be battlegrounds for change. The 68-year-old failed his ‘O’ Levels, then went on to make good as a businessman, becoming a self-made millionaire at 29. Jack could have rested on his laurels, but he instead chose to become a philanthropist and social activist.
After the Vote: Shawn Lim on Holding Space for Singapore’s Queer and Neurodivergent Community

1 month ago | ricemedia.co | Kimberly Lim

At the age of 16, Shawn Lim had already been arrested twice. No stranger to detention and canings in school, he was even sent to a boy’s home at one point. Looking back on his tumultuous teen years, Shawn, now 33, theorises that he was acting out because he was “a queer kid in an environment that didn’t feel safe for softness”. Over the years, however, he’s come to realise that we don’t have to fit into boxes others create.