Senator #RisaHontiveros welcomed the decision of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (#DILG) to strip Bamban, Tarlac Mayor #AliceGuo of supervision over #LocalPolice, citing her ties to “criminals.”
Feminist org in Singapore is looking for volunteers who can speak and transcribe Vietnamese.
They’re doing a study on coercive control. Singapore has a large trans-national marriage rate, largely between citizen men and non-citizen wives from countries like Vietnam.
When I saw this web story about ‘terraforming Singapore’ I was floored. What a great use of the web to tell a story about a country, land use, sand, environmental degradation, and the price of ‘progress’. Singapore’s success, skyscrapers, comes at the cost of literally mining and eroding some of our poorest neighbors’.
This story is so important and had to be told. Oh and it also won some awards! Proud of the friends who put this together
I found this article irritating. Singaporean small country insecurity and exceptionalism is still deeply Western-centric. It’s all look at us, we are better / different
LinkedIn types are celebrating it and saying ‘Singapore is better because we don’t have culture wars/ identity politics’
Well that’s different from ‘not being allowed to have identity politics’, or ‘identities’, but I find it nauseating that dominant group people think this is great
I don’t think anyone needs lessons on anything from Singapore. Literally nowhere else is a microscopic city state island nation with a deep port. LA is 1.82x bigger than us. A Taiwanese minister once called Singapore ‘a very deeply irritating booger’ (more melodic in our shared Hokkien: pee sai). Now that’s the Singapore think piece I want to read
Don’t get me wrong, Singapore is wonderful within some constraints. If you’re fine with boundaries and limits, and your identity gives you some privileges. However I would not recommend it to anyone who is any type of outside the box person. There’s a special type of soul crushing you can expect, one that I will take the rest of my life to unravel
#MountIbu erupted on Saturday evening, sending ash 4km into the sky, as streaks of purple lightning flashed around its crater, according to information and images shared by Indonesia’s volcanology agency.
The alert level of the #volcano to the highest level on Thursday, after Ibu erupted multiple times earlier this month. #Halmahera