Fann Woon Fong, better known by her stage name Fann Wong, is a Singaporean actress, singer and model. She is referred to as MediaCorp's "Ah Jie" together with Zoe Tay and Xiang Yun for being among the first locally trained artistes.
Lee Hsien Loong is a Singaporean politician who has served as Prime Minister of Singapore and secretary-general of the People's Action Party (PAP) since 2004. He is also an elected Member of Parliament for Ang Mo Kio GRC. He served as the deputy prime minister under then-prime minister Goh Chok Tong from 1990 to 2004 and as finance minister from 2001 to 2007.
Section 377A is a Singaporean law criminalising sex between consenting male adults. The item of legislation was added to the Penal Code in the 1930s. The item remained part of the Singapore body of law after the Penal Code review of October 2007 that removed most of the other provisions in Section 377. The section is entitled Outrages on decency and reads:
Any male person who, in public or private, commits, or abets the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 2 years.
This article deals with writing that deals with LGBT themes in a Singapore context. It covers literary works of fiction, such as novels, short stories, plays and poems. It also includes non-fiction works, both scholarly and targeted at the general reader, such as dissertations, journal or magazine articles, books and even web-based content. Although Singapore lacks a dedicated gay book publisher or gay bookshop, it does have at least one dedicated gay library, Pelangi Pride Centre, which is open weekly to the public. Many of the works cited here may be found both in Pelangi Pride Centre, as well as the National Library or other academic libraries in Singapore, as well as in some commercial bookshops under 'gender studies' sections.
LGBT art in Singapore or queer art in Singapore broadly refers to modern and contemporary visual art practices that draw on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender+ imagery and themes, addressing topics such as LGBT rights, history and culture in Singapore. Such queer art practices are often by Singaporean or Singapore-based visual artists and curators who identify as LGBT+ or queer.
The literature of Singapore comprises a collection of literary works by Singaporeans. It is written chiefly in the country's four official languages: English, Malay, Standard Mandarin and Tamil.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Singapore face challenges not faced by non-LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is illegal, and the Attorney-General of Singapore has declared that prosecutions under Section 377A occasionally still occur, although sources state that the law is not well enforced, and is being challenged in courts. Same-sex relationships are not recognized under the law, and adoption of children by same-sex couples is illegal. No anti-discrimination protections exist for LGBT people.
Cyril Wong is a poet, fictionist and critic.
Wong Peng Soon, was an ethnic Chinese Malayan/Singaporean badminton player who reigned as a top player in Malaya from the 1930s to the 1950s. Noted for his smooth but powerful strokes and graceful footwork, he won the singles title seven times in Singapore and eight times in Malaya during this period, as well as being the top player in the All England, the Danish Open, the Indian Open, and the Philippines Open to name a few. Wong's great rival during his career was his contemporary Ong Poh Lim.
An OB marker, short for "out of bounds marker", is used in Singapore to denote what topics are permissible for public discussion. The full form of the word is rarely used.
The Singapore Writers Festival is a literary event organised by the National Arts Council. Inaugurated in 1986, the festival serves a dual function of promoting new and emerging Singaporean and Asian writing to an international audience, as well as presenting foreign writers to Singaporeans.
Focus on the Family Singapore is a Christian socially conservative, anti-abortion organisation based in Singapore. According to its website, FOTF seeks to strengthen the role of male and female in a marriage and traditional family unit. The organisation has conducted talks, workshops, nationwide events and counselled parents and couples, with the aim of advocating traditional family units.
Lawrence Wong Shyun Tsai is a Singaporean politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has served as the Minister for Education since July 2020 and the Second Minister for Finance since August 2016. He is Co-chair of the Multi-Ministry Task Force in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore alongside Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong. He served as the Minister for National Development from October 2015 to July 2020. He has previously held appointments in the Ministry for Communications and Information and the Ministry for Culture, Community and Youth. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Marsiling–Yew Tee GRC since September 2015 and served as the MP for West Coast GRC from May 2011 to August 2015. Wong is a key member of the fourth-generation (4G) leadership of the PAP led by Heng Swee Keat, who will succeed Lee Hsien Loong to be the 4th Prime Minister of Singapore
Unmarked Treasure is a poetry collection by the Singaporean poet Cyril Wong, held together by memories about family life and intimate relationships, charged with intense emotions surrounding love, death and exploration of an emptiness within the self. This book marks the first time that an openly gay poet has won both the National Young Artist Award for Literature and the Singapore Literature Prize. As commented on by the poet/playwright Robert Yeo, the book contains "poems about parental displeasure and homosexual relations" but the work also allows the author "to deliberately blur distinctions between the real and the persona The result is a distancing that layers the poems and renders them more fraught and complex and encourages, indeed demands, repeated reading."
Let Me Tell You Something About That Night is a short-story collection by the Singaporean poet Cyril Wong. His first published foray into prose and listed by The Straits Times as among the best five books of the year, described by the reviewer as possessing "the sharp bite of contemporary issues", the book "takes fairytales and works them into a surreal lustre" and "gestures to a time before fairytales were saccharine fantasies", while a few stories also deal openly with sexuality: "The Boy with the Flower That Grew out of His Ass is a fable of wounding poignancy about homophobia; The Queen & Her Eventual Knowledge of Love is a post-mortem coming-out story."
Wong Kah Chun, also known as Kahchun Wong, is a Singaporean conductor. Wong became the first Asian to win the prestigious international Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition for young conductors held in Bamberg, Germany on 12 May 2016. One of Singapore's most prolific conductors, he will lead as the chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in Germany for four years from September 2018.
firstfruits publications is an independent book publisher based in Singapore. It is an imprint of mediaexodus LLP, a design firm which offers copy-editing and translation services. firstfruits publications is known to publish a diverse range of writers from Singapore. It has published numerous poetry volumes and anthologies by writers including Aaron Maniam, Cyril Wong, Eleanor Wong, Madeleine Lee, Ng Yi-Sheng, and Yong Shu Hoong.
The following lists events that happened during 2019 in the Republic of Singapore.
The following lists events that happened during 2020 in the Republic of Singapore.
This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in August 2020, the virus which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
