Editor's Picks
Building Faith: Wartime Churches in Syonan-to
Christian POWs interned during the Japanese Occupation found ingenious ways to worship. Gracie Lee looks at a book documenting these makeshift churches in war-torn Singapore.
The Final Hours of the Empress of Asia
The Empress of Asia sank off Tuas in February 1942 while carrying troops to fight off the Japanese invasion. Dan Black recounts its final days.
They Died for All Free Men: Stories from Kranji War Cemetery
Remembering those who died while fighting the Japanese during World War II.
A Beastly Business: Regulating the Wildlife Trade in Colonial Singapore
The 1933 Report of the Wild Animals and Wild Birds Committee represents a failed attempt to regulate the buying and selling of wildlife in pre-war Singapore, says Fiona Tan.
Nature Conservation in Singapore
Balancing biodiversity conservation with urban development is a hot-button issue in land-scarce Singapore. Ang Seow Leng examines how this process has played out over the last 200 years.