Ong Sor Fern

Arts Editor

Sor Fern started at The Straits Times writing about books and has since covered arts and culture as well as film and entertainment. She founded a short-lived tabloid-sized books supplement for the paper and helped conceptualise The Straits Times Life Theatre Awards.

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Ong Sor Fern’s top reads of 2025: Meihan Boey, Natsuo Kirino and Lev Grossman

(From left) Authors Meihan Boey, Natsuo Kirino, and Lev Grossman.

3Pumpkins founder Lin Shiyun sets a KPI for reading and carves out time to meet it

sftalk20/ST20251209_202547400842/Ng Sor Luan/Lin Shiyun, founder of Tak Takut Kids Club on what she is reading.

The Buy Now, Pay Later Award goes to the SG Culture Pass initiative

Theatre archival photography. Photo credits: Tuckys Photography.

From page to place: Mapping Singapore through 60 books

Gift suggestions for the art lover in your life, from theatre tickets to artworks

sfpicks11 - Pangdemonium's 2026 season will open with Force Majeure by playwright Stephanie Street.

CREDIT AND COPYRIGHT: PANGDEMONIUM

Huayi 2026: Stars, drama with Jiang Shan in Deling And Cixi, King Shih-chieh in The Father

Chinese actress Jiang Shan leads the cast of palace drama Deling And Cixi.

Billionaire’s spat sparks Sotheby’s sale of Hokusai and Utamaro works at record-breaking prices

Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic The Great Wave Off The Coast Of Kanagawa was sold for a record-breaking HK$21.7 million on Nov 22.

Agam Theatre Lab’s Mission Malligapoo is an amiably overstuffed WWII drama

Agam Theatre Lab's Mission Malligapoo is part of the Esplanade's Kalaa Utsavam - Indian Festival of Arts.

Zora Health founder Anna Haotanto says reading in short focused bursts resets her mind

Ms Anna Haotanto, founder and chief executive officer of Zora Health.

Use your Culture Pass credits for The Fourth Trimester and Singapore Ballet’s Cinderella

Singapore artist Jimmy Ong's Musang Kings is a charcoal sketch.

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