Uncover stories about how the hotel industry is pivoting and creating new opportunities for their staff.

Uncover stories about how the hotel industry is pivoting and creating new opportunities for their staff.

Edwin Lau
Merit Award (Visual), Nov

For the past 5 months, I’ve been working with the team BLKJ to uncover stories about how the hotel industry is pivoting and creating new opportunities for their staff. This includes, amongst other things, retraining and working in Covid related jobs. It was a great experience witnessing the industry’s adaptability and innovation. The project was commissioned by Singapore Tourism Board and Singapore Hotel Association.

A personal take on their word of the year

A personal take on their word of the year

Edwin Lau
Merit Award (Visual), Nov

Words may fail many of us in trying to capture the misery of the past few months, but the folks at Collins Dictionary - lexicographers is the word for them - have hit on 'lockdown' as their word of the year. Hardly surprising, given that its usage has rocketed as shutters came down across the world amid the pandemic. Armed with the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, The Straits Times photojournalists give a personal take on their word of the year.

Quest to bridge the digital divide

Quest to bridge the digital divide

Edwin Lau
Merit Award (Story), Nov

While the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitalisation in some sectors, it has also raised concerns that vulnerable segments of society are being left behind in a so-called digital divide.

In the absence of a clear measure of the digital divide here, there are some official figures that suggest there could be some who fall through the cracks.

The New Normal or Same Old? The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Live-in Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

The New Normal or Same Old? The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Live-in Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

Edwin Lau
Merit Award (Commentary), Nov

“While often defined by their mobile or migrant status, the Covid-19 global pandemic has rendered domestic workers in Singapore immobile in many respects. Alike people in different contexts across the globe, the pandemic has enforced stillness at multiple scales: within national borders, within urban regions, and within the micro-scale of the home. “, writes Dr Laura Antona, an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in the School of Geography and Environment, at the University of Oxford

In Limbo in Little India

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.

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