SOAP Award Recipients

Mar 7

Mar 7 SOAP Awards: Winners of September, October, November, December and Jan 2021

Edwin Lau

Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan 2021

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Oct 31

Oct 31 🏆 Invisible Men: Migrant Workers in the Pandemic

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Visual), Oct

Oct 31

Oct 31 In Limbo in Little India

Edwin Lau

Merit Award (Visual), Oct

The shophouses of Little India are a vibrant mix of restaurants, department stores and groceries catering largely to Singapore’s South Asian community. In the living quarters upstairs, migrant workers with various work-related disputes wait for their cases to be settled — often for a long time.

Oct 26

Oct 26 Lower-income hit hardest by Covid-19, as better off still buying stocks, homes, cars

Edwin Lau

Oct, Merit Award (Story)

COVID-19 has handed Singapore its deepest recession since the country's independence, but the pain inflicted by the pandemic has been unevenly spread.

Economists have dubbed the crisis as one primed for a "K-shaped" recovery, one where different parts of the economy...

Oct 11

Oct 11 My passport doesn't tell the whole story

Edwin Lau

Merit Award (Commentary), Oct

When it was time to renew my passport, I placed old passports side by side.

Annotated with colourful visa stamps from thirty-odd countries, the panels formed a travel-themed triptych, a working map of the places I have been in the 30 years since my first flight away from India, my first home.

Oct 9

Oct 9 The Big Read: Some firms know normalcy is not returning — the sooner everyone else realises it the better

Edwin Lau

Oct, Merit Award (Story)

A rising tide lifts all boats and Lingjack was one of the many companies that blossomed during Singapore’s industrial boom in the 70s and 80s, as the small tooling business quickly gained a foothold producing metal works for firms in the marine industry and elsewhere.

Oct 3
Oct 3 Changes: An ongoing photo series

Edwin Lau

Merit Award (Visual), Oct

Changes: An ongoing photo series to document the changes we have seen and experienced firsthand during the pandemic in the past few months . Be it the changes in our lifestyle, the changes in our emotions, the changes in our Singapore.

Oct 1

Oct 1 🏆 Staying home, going far

Edwin Lau

Oct, Winner 🏆 (Commentary)

Nothing took me farther from my HDB heartland and shopping mall existence than visiting Mustafa Centre in Little India, Peninsula Plaza at Coleman Street, in the very heart of the city, and Golden Mile Complex along Beach Road.

Oct 1

Oct 1 🏆 $1.20 for lunch: Workers settle for less to save money

Edwin Lau

Oct, Winner 🏆 (Story)

A sour smell rises as Bangladeshi Ibrahim Khalil, 31, opens his catered lunch, undoing the knots on two plastic bags of curry and lentils. The fish curry, exposed to the morning heat for half a day, has turned rancid again. Still, the curtain installation worker pours all the gravy over his pile of cold rice as he sits crosslegged on the floor, and begins tucking into his meal.

Oct 1

Oct 1 🏆 Invisible Men: Migrant Workers in the Pandemic

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Story), Oct

Nothing took me farther from my HDB heartland and shopping mall existence than visiting Mustafa Centre in Little India, Peninsula Plaza at Coleman Street, in the very heart of the city, and Golden Mile Complex along Beach Road.

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Oct 31 🏆 Invisible Men: Migrant Workers in the Pandemic

Oct 31 In Limbo in Little India

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Oct 11 My passport doesn't tell the whole story

Oct 9 The Big Read: Some firms know normalcy is not returning — the sooner everyone else realises it the better

Oct 3
Oct 3 Changes: An ongoing photo series

Oct 1 🏆 Staying home, going far

Oct 1 🏆 $1.20 for lunch: Workers settle for less to save money

Oct 1 🏆 Invisible Men: Migrant Workers in the Pandemic

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