With young creatives moving in and co-living operators converting shophouses, what does Geylang feel like in 2026?

All images by Zachary Tang for RICE Media unless otherwise stated. Equipment support by Leica Store Singapore. As I try to step onto a community fitness corner’s elliptical machine, Jovan Tang stops ...

Ask a local about Singapore’s origin story, and you’ll get similar versions of the same arc: we went from a mudflat to a modern city, to a metropolis. We’re an independent nation willed into being by ...

Born-and-raised Singaporeans have never had to stake a claim to their citizenship. It’s something intrinsic and ingrained, like a surname, blood type, or disgust over AI-slop National Day banners. At ...

Noor Huda Ismail is a Visiting Fellow at NTU’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) and a strategic communication consultant for Southeast Asia with the United Nations Office on Drugs ...

Danial Sim, 28, is the founder of Tap Space, a label dedicated to miniatures and memorabilia of Singapore’s MRT and buses across different eras, now with a storefront in Burlington Square. In this ...

This story was brought to you by Community Chest, the philanthropic arm of the National Council of Social Service. We tell ourselves we’re fine until we genuinely aren’t. And even then, we’re not ...

What happens when life changes faster than you can cope? RICE spends a day with Tsao Foundation senior counsellor Lina as she supports seniors like Mdm Jumiati through loss, loneliness, and ...

Angela’s young adulthood brought a heartbreaking reality: losing both parents to cancer. She recalls her caregiving journey, navigating a role reversal many millennials quietly share—the parents who ...

Layla* received her citizenship only recently, in late 2024. She’s only been able to call herself Singaporean for about a year, but as I chatted with her over prawn-paste fried chicken and iced lemon ...

“Dinner at Haidilao?” I suggested in the group chat. Replies came in quickly, a chorus of okays filling my screen. Then came a half-joking, half-resigned message from a Muslim friend: “Guys, then what ...

All images by Yee Jia Ying for RICE Media. It’s 7 AM on a Friday morning when Linus Lin emerges from his HDB void deck in Bukit Panjang. It’s the day of his O-Level Biology paper. He’s 44, married, ...