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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Against odds, Agam Theatre Lab organises first Singapore international Tamil theatre festival

Horror play Kaivarisai (The Monkey Paw) replaces Obsession’s one wish willow with the cursed monkey paw for a tense drama of human desire in 1935 Malaya.

Art logistics firm Eythos to open 22,000 sq ft S’pore space in 2027, targets South-east Asia market

The Eythos team mid-installation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.

Singapore Lyric Opera reinterprets Puccini’s ‘problematic’ Madama Butterfly

Director Harry Fehr (left) and soprano Nancy Yuen, who stars as Cio-Cio-San in the Singapore Lyric Opera’s staging of Madama Butterfly from July 2 to 4.

Pangdemonium’s Tracie Pang signs off with grippingly subversive censorship play A Mirror

Coco Wang Ling (left) and Ghafir Akbar as an assistant and her boss in A Mirror.

Singapore superheroes take flight in law graduate Camille Chong’s debut fantasy Love, Gods & Sinners

The Nether is a whodunnit play for the AI age

HuM Theatre's The Nether tackles internet fetishes and how they translate to real world actions.

Singapore arts guide (June 26 to July 3): See two photo exhibitions and catch violin prodigy Himari Yoshimura

Shui Tit Sing's photos had a fundamental goofiness.

Cj Hendry’s Juju rabbits sell out due to demand, not to hold-up at Customs, IMBA clarifies

Juju plushies by Australian contemporary artist Cj Hendry.

‘Labubus have come and gone’: Flower market artist Cj Hendry opens second show at IMBA Theatre

Australian contemporary artist CJ Hendry at her new juju world IMBA Theatre exhibition.

South Korea embassy and Temenggong Artists-In-Residence sign MOU to promote cultural exchange

South Korean ambassador Hong Jin-wook (left) and Temenggong Artists-In-Residence chairman Soo Khee Chee (right) at the MOU signing ceremony witnessed by MP Cai Yinzhou.

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