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Retail Event GSS: Experience Singapore
Retail event GSS: Experience Singapore is about way more than just buying stuff. The event’s leadership affirmed as much in the opening days of the event once titled “The Great Singapore Sale.” Among the representatives from Singapore’s retailing groups and public officials on hand to inaugurate GSS: Experience Singapore—the five-week shopping showcase along the Orchard … Read more
Babes and Boobs
Artist uses her whimsical characters to promote body-positivity There are many naked women in Sofia Holt’s studio. Some of the women are dancing, some are just standing. Some are facing the viewer, some are looking away with their backs turned exposed back and bottom facing the viewer. These women have raised a middle finger, like … Read more
GSS: Experience Singapore 2019
It’s part pop-up event, part concert, part exhibition and part festival. But it’s all sale. It’s GSS: Experience Singapore, the region’s premier yearly consumer retail expo. The shopping event returns this week starting June 21st. The exhibition is coming back as a month-long, multi-event occasion for its 25th anniversary. Until July 28th, GSS: Experience Singapore’s … Read more
Mental Health Abroad
Living abroad comes with a lot of unexpected challenges, and help is available if you need it If you’re reading this, you probably don’t belong here. Maybe that’s okay. In a foreign country, you get to choose who you belong to. You don’t belong with anyone, so you can be part of any of them. If … Read more
Shared Experiences
The Art of ActingYou’re sitting across from Lam Vissay, a German actor with numerous Vietnamese films credits, reading a professional script for a movie that’s not out yet. No pressure. He just wants you to read it again. “Now I would like you to read it more like,” Vissay pauses, considering how best to voice … Read more
Queen Me
In conversation with Do Nhat Ha, winner of The Tiffany Vietnam 2018— the first reality show format transgender beauty pageant in Southeast Asia It’s around 11 pm on a Friday inside of the cavernous Envy, the District 1 club that feels like a homage to some new, electronic god with its towering screen that presides over clubgoers, the … Read more
Fierce Voices
The power of storytelling and the potential of women’s networks It’s been more than five years since Joelle Hawes, a UK national living in Saigon, stopped on a bridge with a partner and challenged him with a critical question. “I was by a bridge with this guy and I asked him for a reason to … Read more
Book Now
Meet Ares Wong, an entrepreneur, a librarian and a reading advocate If it’s not the first question Ares Wong gets when he tells people he opened the Reading Habit International Library in Thao Dien (27 Nguyen Ba Huan, D2), it’s not far in to the conversation. “It’s not about is the service good or [is] the … Read more
