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Hoarding toilet paper: The mystery of such panic buying explained
Singapore’s dense, close-knit networks make people more prone to believe their contacts and take up mass behaviours. Like buying toilet paper for no apparent reason, just because your WhatsApp chatmates are doing so
Racism in the Time of Coronavirus
Rising deaths and infections have been accompanied by a disturbing global surge in xenophobia against ethnic Chinese people and others of Asian descent.
When playground politics migrates online
Married for 50 years and counting
Three couples who have been together for at least five decades share advice
Call to let students get exam results online
Call to let students get exam results online
Seniors hit the books to learn a new language
Some do so to dig into their roots or discover a new culture, while others see it as a way to upgrade themselves
Singapore's growing generation gap: Divide between young and old along social and political lines
Singapore’s growing generation gap: Divide between young and old along social and political lines
How digital connections add stress for both parents and children
Online teaching resources which parents can monitor and the prevalence of chat groups mean parents can “monitor” their children in the classroom and are connected to teachers and fellow parents – often adding pressure to the parenting process
The Big Read: What ‘OK boomer’ reveals about the divide between S’pore millennials and their elders
The chasm between millennials and baby boomers has come under the spotlight, and taken a new twist — an insulting one from the older folks’ perspective — after a popular Internet meme becomes the retort of choice for youngsters fed up with the supposedly patronising, outdated and know-it-all ways of their elders.
Keeping the mother tongues alive Singapore's bilingual challenge
“Logically, the decision is obvious. Emotionally, the choice is painful.” That was how then-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew described the “stark choice” of pairing English with Mandarin, and not other dialects, in bilingual policy at the launch of the Speak Mandarin Campaign in 1979.
