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During the "Roaring Twenties", parts of the Singapore population were indulging in a dangerous vice—opium smoking. Read about how Singapore's healthcare overcame opium addiction and venereal diseases to become the world-class system it is today.
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Civil societies played a cat-and-mouse game with the colonial government in the 1920s. While societies involved in illicit activities took advantage of the broad categorisation of "societies" and their purposes, the government responded by tightening the registration criteria.
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What does the rise of mandopop (Mandarin popular music) have in common with Singapore's Speak Mandarin campaign in 1979? They're both products of linguistic engineering. Dialects such as Hokkein were scrubbed to make way for standard Chinese, which was considered more progressive. Still, regional styles from Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan managed to seep in, creating the genre we love till today.
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📢 Calling for submissions! Are you someone who deals with data and does Asia-related content? We want to feature you and/or your organisation! Asia is a huge continent, and while we know some folks are doing great work in this field, there are many other incredible data people in the region who are less known to us—and to one another!
Please help us expand our horizons by forwarding this newsletter to your friends, or reach out to mick@kontinentalist.com after reading the post :-).
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Happy news! Our former intern Amanda has returned as our UI Architect. Mick (a former intern turned full-timer) gets the scoop.
By the way, since both of them returned to Kontinentalist after interning...we must be a pretty cool place to work at, right? Please consider applying to our full-stack web developer position! Remote positions will also be considered.
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Every month we curate a bunch of content for you to check out. Holler at us if you think we missed out some!
↘︎ More data stories about music, Bollywood edition. Gurman Bhatia, the journalist who wrote the story, also updated her website recently, with plenty of useful information on data journalism.
↘︎ This has unintentionally turned into a music-themed newsletter, so let's roll with it! Here's a clip showing a virtual pianist playing notes that an AI extracted from raw audio.
↘︎ On that note, shoutout to our friends Duncan and Miriam—fellow Outlier speakers—on their upcoming podcast on data sonification.
↘︎ Fancy some generative art? Check out Tabbied by Sy Hong and Ye Joo Park. If medieval design is more your jam, head over to Historic Tale Construction Kit, to create narratives out of the Bayeux Tapestry.
↘︎ Embark on a visual feast of 160 illustrations reproduced by Nicolas Rougeux, based on Elizabeth Twining's 1868 catalogue on the natural order of plants. A bonus floral fact about Singapore: we're the only country to have a hybrid flower—Vanda Miss Joaquim—as our national flower.
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