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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Singapore arts guide (Nov 6 and 7): Say goodbye to Singapore’s last sawmill in Sungei Kadut

Co-founder of outreach group Pasarfish laying out a local seafood meal at OH! Open House’s first edition of Departures.

Reading Catherine Lim’s Or Else, The Lightning God and O Singapore! 40 years on

O Singapore! Stories In Celebration (left) and Or Else, The Lightning God & Other Stories by Catherine Lim.

Gajah Gallery stages South-east Asian women show inspired by 1001 Arabian Nights

Suzann Victor (foreground) and Kayleigh Goh’s works are some of those at the 15-women artist show at Gajah Gallery.

S’pore-based artist Tang Kok Soo wins $46k UOB Painting of the Year; bank gives $5m to NAC

Singapore-based artist Tang Kok Soo with his painting A Big Flower which won the UOB Painting Of The Year award.

Author Amitav Ghosh says writers must give voice to marginal communities in works about the climate

Amitav Ghosh is giving a festival keynote lecture at the Victoria Theatre.

‘I’ve seen his face’: Translator Jim Rion wishes Uketsu’s puzzles were less language-based

The translator of Uketsu’s hit titles, Jim Rion, will dial in for a Zoom session at the Victoria Theatre on Nov 21.

Singapore arts guide (Oct 21 to Nov 1): Look at Picasso with songs chosen by The Strokes frontman

The team behind home exhibition No Straight Lines, on till Nov 1.

Delfi Orchard locks down Tang Contemporary Art premises after alleged failure to pay rent

Tang Contemporary Art at Delfi Orchard is allegedly in arrears.

‘They can ban a politician, but they cannot ban ideas’: Thai almost-PM Pita Limjaroenrat on his memoir

Thai politician Pita Limjaroenrat, the former Move Forward Party leader in Thailand, at SPH News Centre on Sept 25,.

The Lunch Break Investor author Thomas Chua seeks out books that disagree with him

The Lunch Break Investor author Thomas Chua recommends three books to ST readers.

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