Kirsten Han 韩俐颖
@kirstenhan.com
🇸🇬 Writer and activist. Author of 'The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope'. Editor-in-Chief of @mekongreview.com. Everything Elf at https://wethecitizens.net. Member of @transformjusticesg.bsky.social and @adpan.bsky.social.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
The amount of feelings I have tried to eat this year
I mean it with my whole chest when I say “FUCK 2025”. It has been such a cruel year.
I guess at least my favourite K-pop group is on the Pepero box. This is where we’re at now.
I mean it with my whole chest when I say “FUCK 2025”. It has been such a cruel year.
I guess at least my favourite K-pop group is on the Pepero box. This is where we’re at now.
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The amount of feelings I have tried to eat this year
I mean it with my whole chest when I say “FUCK 2025”. It has been such a cruel year.
I guess at least my favourite K-pop group is on the Pepero box. This is where we’re at now.
I mean it with my whole chest when I say “FUCK 2025”. It has been such a cruel year.
I guess at least my favourite K-pop group is on the Pepero box. This is where we’re at now.
This morning, we received the horrible news that the human rights lawyer M Ravi has died at the age of 56.
Ravi was brilliant and brave and complex and infuriating and difficult and absolutely incredible. He was my friend.
www.wethecitizens.net/remembering-...
Ravi was brilliant and brave and complex and infuriating and difficult and absolutely incredible. He was my friend.
www.wethecitizens.net/remembering-...
Remembering M Ravi
A shocking, devastating loss that none of us saw coming. Rest in Power, M Ravi.
www.wethecitizens.net
December 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This morning, we received the horrible news that the human rights lawyer M Ravi has died at the age of 56.
Ravi was brilliant and brave and complex and infuriating and difficult and absolutely incredible. He was my friend.
www.wethecitizens.net/remembering-...
Ravi was brilliant and brave and complex and infuriating and difficult and absolutely incredible. He was my friend.
www.wethecitizens.net/remembering-...
How long do they intend to keep flogging this really quite deceased horse? Is this persuasive to anyone except the PAP’s most hardcore supporters?
www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/in...
www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/in...
Indranee says Pritam Singh's conviction has 'implications' for Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap; issue to be discussed in parliament
Parliament had postponed making a decision on the matter until after the outcome of Mr Pritam Singh’s case, says Leader of the House Indranee Rajah.
www.channelnewsasia.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
How long do they intend to keep flogging this really quite deceased horse? Is this persuasive to anyone except the PAP’s most hardcore supporters?
www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/in...
www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/in...
Here we are at the last WTC Wrap newsletter for 2025! 🎉
Not the happiest news items, though 😅
This week: Singapore revokes visas because of Kpods, Parliament set discuss "response" to Pritam Singh, and dramatic times at the Law Society.
www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-20-...
Not the happiest news items, though 😅
This week: Singapore revokes visas because of Kpods, Parliament set discuss "response" to Pritam Singh, and dramatic times at the Law Society.
www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-20-...
WTC Wrap: 20 December 2025
This week: Singapore revokes visas because of Kpods, Parliament set discuss "response" to Pritam Singh, and dramatic times at the Law Society.
www.wethecitizens.net
December 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Here we are at the last WTC Wrap newsletter for 2025! 🎉
Not the happiest news items, though 😅
This week: Singapore revokes visas because of Kpods, Parliament set discuss "response" to Pritam Singh, and dramatic times at the Law Society.
www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-20-...
Not the happiest news items, though 😅
This week: Singapore revokes visas because of Kpods, Parliament set discuss "response" to Pritam Singh, and dramatic times at the Law Society.
www.wethecitizens.net/wtc-wrap-20-...
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“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“Hostility to traditional views on religion” can trigger a federal investigation.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
Sure, sure. It’s fun to say things.
If only but I will indeed be working diligently
December 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
If only but I will indeed be working diligently
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Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.
Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Every new Trump Epstein revelation is somehow both shocking and not a surprise at all.
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Looking for a special gift for a loved one--or yourself--this holiday season? How about choosing one of Erica Eng's beautiful watercolour paintings on our online shop: ko-fi.com/mekongrevi....
Purchasine each art piece is also a meaningful contribution to Mekong Review's year-end push!
Purchasine each art piece is also a meaningful contribution to Mekong Review's year-end push!
December 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Looking for a special gift for a loved one--or yourself--this holiday season? How about choosing one of Erica Eng's beautiful watercolour paintings on our online shop: ko-fi.com/mekongrevi....
Purchasine each art piece is also a meaningful contribution to Mekong Review's year-end push!
Purchasine each art piece is also a meaningful contribution to Mekong Review's year-end push!
Got this from Reddit. I’m baffled by how this law can possibly be enforced. Kids are going to be kids and they will find their way on to these platforms—except now they might keep it secret from adults, making it even harder to monitor or have conversations about what they’re exposed to.
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Got this from Reddit. I’m baffled by how this law can possibly be enforced. Kids are going to be kids and they will find their way on to these platforms—except now they might keep it secret from adults, making it even harder to monitor or have conversations about what they’re exposed to.
So Singapore is intending to eventually (after she's "assisted" with police investigations) deport a 15-year-old girl to Myanmar because she had a vape laced with etomidate.
Myanmar teen first foreigner to lose Singapore long-term immigration pass for possessing Kpod
A Singaporean boy was also the first etomidate abuser to be sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Centre since it was classified as a Class C controlled drug on Sep 1.
www.channelnewsasia.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
So Singapore is intending to eventually (after she's "assisted" with police investigations) deport a 15-year-old girl to Myanmar because she had a vape laced with etomidate.
This seems like a good time to ask if anyone has watched Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This seems like a good time to ask if anyone has watched Armando Ianucci’s The Death of Stalin
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every so often i re-up this. nobody really listened. to the contrary...
Contributor: To begin de-Trumpification, start with elite institutions
How should we treat the baldfaced liars, the sycophants and the cynical enablers of President Trump, who will be looking for nice places to land after Jan. 20?
www.latimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
every so often i re-up this. nobody really listened. to the contrary...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm getting a little too behind with the world goings-on because I've been hiding a bit too much in my escapist world
Whenever I scroll Bluesky it's infuriating and depressing but when I scroll Threads it's K-pop and Stray Kids all day every day, can you really blame me
Whenever I scroll Bluesky it's infuriating and depressing but when I scroll Threads it's K-pop and Stray Kids all day every day, can you really blame me
December 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I'm getting a little too behind with the world goings-on because I've been hiding a bit too much in my escapist world
Whenever I scroll Bluesky it's infuriating and depressing but when I scroll Threads it's K-pop and Stray Kids all day every day, can you really blame me
Whenever I scroll Bluesky it's infuriating and depressing but when I scroll Threads it's K-pop and Stray Kids all day every day, can you really blame me
In 2018, Jason Soo, a Singaporean filmmaker, was on board Al Awda, part of a freedom flotilla trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Singaporean authorities have given his film a conditional R21 rating, which means he has to seek their approval every time he wants to screen it in the country.
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In 2018, Jason Soo, a Singaporean filmmaker, was on board Al Awda, part of a freedom flotilla trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. Singaporean authorities have given his film a conditional R21 rating, which means he has to seek their approval every time he wants to screen it in the country.
Wrote up the weekly wrap of news from Singapore that'll be emailed out tomorrow morning! If you want to get it in your inbox, subscribe here: wethecitizens.net
We, The Citizens
Stories, analysis and weekly wraps from Singapore.
wethecitizens.net
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Wrote up the weekly wrap of news from Singapore that'll be emailed out tomorrow morning! If you want to get it in your inbox, subscribe here: wethecitizens.net
When we want governments to learn best practices to be more human rights and people-centric in their laws and policies it’s like fucking pulling teeth but when it comes to adopting terrible ideas they do it so easily
Here’s the Maldives: edition.mv/news/46417?r...
Here’s the Maldives: edition.mv/news/46417?r...
Life sentences for drug traffickers extended to death
The bill includes the death penalty for drug traffickers who smuggle in drugs to the country. However, the death penalty can only be imposed after certain conditions are met, and is approved unanimous...
edition.mv
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
When we want governments to learn best practices to be more human rights and people-centric in their laws and policies it’s like fucking pulling teeth but when it comes to adopting terrible ideas they do it so easily
Here’s the Maldives: edition.mv/news/46417?r...
Here’s the Maldives: edition.mv/news/46417?r...
This morning seven of us appeared, self-represented, as applicants in a constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty for drugs in Singapore. Apart from the substantive arguments, we also had to argue that we had standing to bring the challenge.
No decision from the High Court yet.
No decision from the High Court yet.
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This morning seven of us appeared, self-represented, as applicants in a constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty for drugs in Singapore. Apart from the substantive arguments, we also had to argue that we had standing to bring the challenge.
No decision from the High Court yet.
No decision from the High Court yet.
17 executions have been carried out in 2025. This is the highest number of executions in a single year since 19 people were executed in 2003.
In case anyone was wondering if a new president + prime minister would signal a shift on the death penalty.
www.wethecitizens.net/29-november-...
In case anyone was wondering if a new president + prime minister would signal a shift on the death penalty.
www.wethecitizens.net/29-november-...
29 November 2025: A deadly year
This week: The highest number of executions in a single year in two decades, the police issues directions under the Online Criminal Harms Act, and ICA plans on sending out no-boarding directives.
www.wethecitizens.net
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
17 executions have been carried out in 2025. This is the highest number of executions in a single year since 19 people were executed in 2003.
In case anyone was wondering if a new president + prime minister would signal a shift on the death penalty.
www.wethecitizens.net/29-november-...
In case anyone was wondering if a new president + prime minister would signal a shift on the death penalty.
www.wethecitizens.net/29-november-...
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#TaiPo fire: Took 4 days to arrive here:
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#TaiPo fire: Took 4 days to arrive here:
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
Man arrested for sedition. HKFP understands is the student who made "4 demands" of the authorities: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
Beijing warns "anti-China disrupted" they'll face the "full force" of the security law: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/29/b...
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The HK authorities arrested a student on sedition charges because he made a petition asking the government to 1) ensure accommodation for displaced residents; 2) setup independent investigation; 3) review construction supervision system 4) probe regulatory neglect.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
HK man arrested for alleged sedition in relation to fatal Tai Po blaze
A HK man has been arrested on suspicion of sedition in relation to the fatal Tai Po fire, according to local media reports, citing unnamed sources.
hongkongfp.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The HK authorities arrested a student on sedition charges because he made a petition asking the government to 1) ensure accommodation for displaced residents; 2) setup independent investigation; 3) review construction supervision system 4) probe regulatory neglect.
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
hongkongfp.com/2025/11/30/h...
The court ruled that just ‘cos our constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty is ongoing, it doesn’t mean the prison can’t execute people w/ mandatory death sentences. One man was executed today. The prison intends to kill two more tomorrow.
www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2025_SG...
www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2025_SG...
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The court ruled that just ‘cos our constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty is ongoing, it doesn’t mean the prison can’t execute people w/ mandatory death sentences. One man was executed today. The prison intends to kill two more tomorrow.
www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2025_SG...
www.elitigation.sg/gd/s/2025_SG...
Despite there being an ongoing constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty for drugs, the Singapore government has issued three new execution notices for next week, to three people given mandatory death sentences for drug offences.
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Despite there being an ongoing constitutional challenge against the mandatory death penalty for drugs, the Singapore government has issued three new execution notices for next week, to three people given mandatory death sentences for drug offences.