Featured Series – ST Singaporean of the Year 2017

Big Hearts, Big Dreams compiles the stories of the 31 people in the running for The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year award, which was begun in 2015 by The Straits Times and supported by bank UBS to recognise Singaporeans who had made headlines and inspired the...

Conductor Wong Kah Chun, 31, goes the extra mile to prepare for concerts, including observing orchestras incognito. Wong won the first prize at the prestigious Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Germany last year, said: "I like to do research on the orchestras I...

Cartoonist Sonny Liew, 43, came to Singapore from Seremban, Malaysia, when he was five and became a Singaporean about five years ago, when he was working on his acclaimed graphic novel, The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. He studied philosophy at Cambridge, and later...

36-year-old Kirsten Tan’s debut feature Pop Aye was recently picked as Singapore's submission to the 90th Academy Awards in the Foreign Language Film category. The road movie, about a disillusioned Thai architect and his elephant friend, won prizes at the Sundance and...

"A lot of people ask, why are you so determined, despite losing so many things?" said Jason Chee, 34, who lost both his legs, left arm and three fingers on his right hand, after a horrific naval accident in 2012 when he was caught between a motorised winch and a...

A para-athlete, a film-maker, a graphic novelist and a conductor are the first four nominees for The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year 2017 award. Now in its third year and supported by the bank UBS Singapore, the award seeks to recognise Singaporeans whose...