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Is this home, truly? Reflections on Singapore as it turns 59

Singaporeans living abroad are not drawn home by smart technology. What they cherish is the intangible essence of our city.

Singapore's social fabric is more heterogeneous and complex compared to the past, but this also means there are new opportunities to build a more inclusive society.

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Lily Kong

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What is “home”?

Born in 1965, I have long held a sense of common destiny with Singapore – my country, my home. Thanks to the

Majulah Package,

announced by

former prime minister Lee Hsien Loong at his last National Day Rally in 2023,

I am a “young senior”, a group born between 1960 and 1973. I feel neither young nor senior, but young enough to lament the loss of Borders and HMV with the millennials, and senior enough to recall with fondness Yaohan and Fitzpatrick’s with the baby boomers.

Is this home, truly? Reflections on Singapore as it turns 59

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