Clement Yong

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Clement Yong is a correspondent on the arts beat, covering books, theatre and the visual arts. He has been with The Straits Times since 2019.

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Celup and A Lesbian Love Story: The Musical – Two more acts at Singapore Fringe Festival 2026

(From left) Sofie Buligis in Celup, Coco Wang Ling, Natalie Yeap and Melissa May Garcia in A Lesbian Love Story: The Musical

Singapore Fringe Festival 2026: Hotel play Invisible refuses to ghettoise disability

From left: Jaspreet Kaur Sekhon, Deonn Yang, Periyachi Roshini and Dalifah Shahril in Invisible.

Eggplants by Suzann Victor at NGS: Instagrammable entry point to wronged artist

Suzann Victor's commission Still Life at the National Gallery Singapore.

Tommy Koh’s new book reveals he was asked to run for UN secretary-general and for president

The milestone episode is quickly skimmed over in 1½ pages in Professor Tommy Koh's new autobiography.

‘Who can we copy now?’: Seasoned civil servant Lim Siong Guan’s new book offers lessons for future

Mr Lim Siong Guan and his daughter Joanne Lim with his new memoir, The Best Is Yet To Be.

Clement Yong’s top reads of 2025: Kiran Desai, Rickey Fayne and Wen-yi Lee

(From left) The Loneliness Of Sonia And Sunny by Kiran Desai, The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne and When They Burned The Butterfly by Wen-yi Lee.

The Great ‘Bust’ Up Award goes to SG60 art exhibitions

Culture Story founder Chong Huai Seng (R) and curator Kwok Kian Chow pictured with the Lee Kuan Yew bust and a work by Ming Wong.

Pianist Churen Li premieres Jonathan Shin’s concerto at SSO’s concert

Singaporean composer Jonathan Shin and home-grown pianist Churen Li.

New ST art interactive shows how SingLit writes about Singapore River, HDB, hawker centres

A new illustrated interactive project by The Straits Times mines 60 iconic Singapore literature texts to discover the ways local writers have written about common spaces.

From page to place: Mapping Singapore through 60 books

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