Wong, Cyril

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  Cyril Wong. ‘Incoming Reports'. Transnational Literature Vol.10 no.1, November 2017. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html    Incoming Reports   World’s longest-ruling political party  Every school becomes an elite school  Park connectors merging once-outlying islands across reclaimed land with the mainland and extended into the peninsula to form an unbroken lasso   Every train station married to a mall  Changes to the national pledge include “to uphold” in place of “to build”, while “democratic” is now “sustainable”  Largest fountain, tallest hotel (again), biggest public garden, priciest public housing, highest Gross Domestic Product based on Purchasing Power Parity valuation, first skyscraper that looks out into space, first zoo to acquire a dinosaur  Every constituency is a mall  Education system and rising costs of living blamed for rate of student suicides   Amos Yee to head new opposition party  Fault line unzipping along Strait of Singapore  Greatest number of megachurches with the highest recorded attendance  No “historical” site that cannot be refitted with a café or boutique hotel  “Freedom of speech” rated as lowest priority in nation-wide survey below “censorship”, “gender equality”, “gay rights”  No longer the poor or homeless hiding out after dark in parks, hawker centres, void decks, common walkways, dried-out canals  Tension builds upon successful development of nuclear capabilities  Performance artist jailed for defecating on flag at Venice Biennale  Most educated country in the world  Local arts funding cut by fifty percent   Cyril Wong. ‘Incoming Reports'. Transnational Literature Vol. 10 no. 1, November 2017. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html   2 Top ranking in global happiness index above Switzerland and Denmark  Nobody reads poetry    Cyril Wong  

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