winner — 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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Jan 31

Jan 31 🏆 How the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed My Life

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Story), Jan 2021

How did the worst global health crisis of our time affect you? One year into the pandemic, CNA speaks to people in Singapore to hear their stories.

Jan 10

Jan 10 🏆 This 71-year-old wants you to get a COVID-19 vaccine once you can. Here’s why

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Commentary), Jan 2021

A battle with polio, an annual fight with the flu and losing a friend to COVID-19 has made this plea incredibly personal, Irene Hoe says.

Jan 7

Jan 7 🏆 Some TraceTogether users upset with Govt’s revelation on police access to data, say they’ll use it less

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Story), Jan 2021

Singapore writer Ng Yi-Sheng had been using the TraceTogether mobile application for months during the Covid-19 pandemic. He even carried the token out with him when it is not necessary to use both together, because just holding the token made him feel safe.

Jan 4

Jan 4 🏆 Just Can't Get Enough

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Visual), Jan 2021

"All the things you do to me
And everything you said
I just can't get enough
I just can't get enough"

Dec 28

Dec 28 🏆 The Science Behind Covid-19

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Visual), Dec

Cartoonist Sonny Liew and NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health infectious diseases expert Hsu Li Yang have worked together to explain the science behind Covid-19, and how it impacts health, since the start of the pandemic.

Dec 19

Dec 19 🏆 The Big Read in short: Ordinary S’poreans spread cheer in the time of Covid-19

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Story), Dec

Each week, TODAY’s long-running Big Read series delves into the trends and issues that matter. This week, we highlight the efforts of unsung heroes in the community who are on a mission to spread cheer amid the Covid-19 gloom. This is a shortened version of the full feature, which can be found here.

Dec 4

Dec 4 🏆 I had acute anxiety: DBS' Piyush Gupta on past mental health struggles

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Commentary), Dec

Will Covid-19 be the catalyst that normalises acceptance of mental health issues in the workplace? Perhaps when more bosses admit their own struggles.

Nov 30

Nov 30 🏆 Covid Alphabet

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Visual), Nov

Covid has redefined a generation, and what we once knew has now changed. 'Covid Alphabet' aims to reinvent word associations with letters that we once learned as children. Because to relearn is the only way to move forward.

Nov 14

Nov 14 🏆 Will Covid-19 create a 'lost generation' in Asia?

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Story), Nov

Job offers have been rescinded, life plans are disrupted. The economic fallout from Covid-19 has raised the prospect of a lost generation in Asia. Will the young people of Singapore and the region find new paths to achieve their dreams?

Oct 31

Oct 31 🏆 Invisible Men: Migrant Workers in the Pandemic

Edwin Lau

Winner 🏆 (Visual), Oct

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.