Mohammad Syafiq Mohammad Suhaini, who got 198 points for his Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) was once a playful and distracted student at Siglap Secondary School. Now, after graduating from Nanyang Technology University’s (NTU) sociology, he is waiting to start…
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A prominent Muslim group in Malaysia has joined calls by Islamic conservatives in Indonesia for a boycott of Starbucks to protest against the international coffee chain’s support of gay rights. Perkasa, a group with about 700,000 members that campaigns for…
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So I recently chanced upon a photo of two hijab women at a Pinkdot event. People wanna be confrontational about things these days, that’s why they have PinkDot. Let me be confrontational about it too. Go to Pink Dot all…
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Despite all our gripes and grouches about National Service (and its yearly reservist call-ups) it’s widely regarded as A Good Thing for a variety of reasons: Singapore has too small a population to rely on citizens volunteering for the military, it forces…
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The celebrity judges of the inaugural Singapore/Malaysia edition of reality singing show The Voice agree that in future, the show should consider lifting its Mandarin-speaking requirement. At the show’s first press event held at Hotel Jen in Johor Baru on…
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