From the outside, the nondescript building with homogenous red bricks stacked one over the other and teak wood panels around the windows forming a cube wasn’t exceptional to Stephanie Choo. The magic happened when she stepped inside the space. “When you walk in, you’ll see this marble staircase. Further in, at the main atrium, there […]

Singaporean writer-director Leon Cheo’s People Like Us has been nominated for Best Short-Form Series at the 2020 International Emmy Awards – a Singapore first. Also nominated is Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, who bagged a Best Performance by an Actress nod for her role in HBO Asia’s Invisible Stories – a series created by Singaporean […]

Mr Bjorn Low is mild-mannered and soft-spoken, radiating an affecting calm quite becoming of a gentleman farmer who is happiest tending to his mustard frills, Mexican tarragon, micro basil and other greens. The 39-year-old is the founder of urban farming social enterprise Edible Garden City (EGC). He set it up in 2012 and, in the […]

When Lilita Gigena was just 3 months old, one of her aunts spotted something unusual: The baby did not follow people with her eyes, as babies typically do by that age. Neither Gigena’s parents nor her pediatrician in their hometown of Córdoba, Argentina, had noticed anything out of the ordinary about the newborn. But her […]

Four years ago, Samantha Bounaparte was volunteering at the Esplanade for a musical performance staged specially for members of an autism community group when she met a boy who was on the autism spectrum. He was showing so much joy while playing the gamelan (a traditional percussive musical instrument from Indonesia) that she went up […]