Budget 2021: A Glimpse into Our Future
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq Mohd Afandi After an unprecedented four Budgets in 2020 (namely Unity, Resilience, Solidarity and Fortitude) to cushion the impact of COVID-19, Singapore is in a better position to Emerge Stronger Together, an apt name for Budget 2021. Other...
Surrendering of Religion to Technology
By Sheikh Mohamad Farouq Abdul Fareez Modernity has given us unprecedented connectivity to the extent that we can connect families from opposite ends of the world with just a single touch. Unknowingly, modernity has also transformed this connectivity into something...
“Hardest Decision in My Life”: Stories of Premarital Abortion
By Nabilah Mohammad Abortion is perhaps one of the world’s most polarising issues today. Although it is widely practised, it is not widely accepted. Laws on abortion vary across different jurisdictions, from prohibiting abortion under all circumstances to freely...
Food Delivery Workers – Riding the Waves of Uncertainty
By Nabilah Mohammad In the past couple of years, the gig economy – specifically the food delivery sector – has experienced a burst of demand as a result of fundamental shifts in consumer behaviour. The delivery boom has also created a massive new sector of employment...
Branding Islam: Beyond the Halal Market
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq If you have ever watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix, you will realise how corporations use data as a bargaining chip to fuel their algorithms and influence consumers to purchase certain goods. This is marketing and advertising, and they are...
Voices of Youth: A Conversation on Employment
By Nabilah Mohammad THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE Today’s young people are the most educated generation ever. They often enter the working world with considerably more years of schooling than their parents or grandparents. In Singapore today, more than 95 percent of each...
Narrowing the Generational Gap
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq One of the most discussed topics in school while I was growing up was the ‘generation gap’. It used to be about communicating with parents or those older than us, or on new technologies used by us versus those used by older folks, the...
The COVID-19 Frontliners: Soldiering against the Pandemic
By Nabilah Mohammad THE WORLD REMADE BY COVID-19Just a few months ago, the Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19, was unheard of, but now, almost every continent is battling the virus. The disease is an infectious one caused by a newly discovered coronavirus...
Classical Malay Texts: Of Relevance and Reverence
By Muhammad Faris Alfiq William Shakespeare – a figure so far away from us here in Singapore, and yet we are well familiar with his works: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, as well as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to name a few. Similarly, Islamic scholar Imam Al-Ghazali,...
Graduates of Institutes of Higher Learning: Surviving the Future
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim Amid news of the threat posed by COVID-19 to an already ailing global economy plagued by the US-China trade war and deglobalisation, the announcements made by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat when he delivered the...