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STB launches second season of SG Stories Content Fund The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has followed up its inaugural SG Stories Content Fund (SGSCF) from last year, with a second season and a funding pool of S$2.5m (US$1.88m). The theme is new this year, ‘Singapore: The Unique and The Unknown’ . This season, local and international content creators are encouraged to create compelling stories about interesting and lesser known facets of Singapore, while building on STB’s SingapoReimagine initiative. STB says any submitted project ideas should be highlight extraordina...

The first season of SG Stories Content Fund was launched in April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A yearning for home Alena and her trusty sape. - Picture courtesy of Kenny Loh Alena performing at the Colours of Ostrava Festival in 2019. - Picture courtesy of Tomas Parkan NOTHING makes the heart yearn for home more than travel. When Alena Murang took the songs of the Dayak Kelabit and Kenyah to foreign lands around the world, her heart longed for the dense jungle, the rushing rapids, the longhouses, and the people of her ancestral home along the Baram River in Sarawak. Alena usually performs alongside her bandmates – co-writer Joshua Maran who plays the guitar, Jonathan Wong who i...

Listen to Alena Murang’s newest song about missing home, Meno’ 05 Feb 2021 / 13:54 H. Sape’ songstress Alena Murang releases a new single and music video Meno’, a nostalgic lament of home, missing the longhouse and the people. Alena, a descendant of the Dayak Kelabit people of the Baram river in Sarawak, recalls the days of the past when her ancestors used to make long journeys from the highlands to the coast of Miri to trade. They went by long boat through the rapids, and up through the dense jungle, sleeping at villages or in the jungle on the way. It was at times like these they...