Archive for August 2025

One woman from Guildford who has made supporting those who need it most part of her daily life for the last twenty years is Ann Mather (centre left).

There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that innovative technology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative AI tools.

NUS Head of Department of Social Work Associate Professor Lee Geok Ling with Professor Kieran O’Donoghue. For more than a decade, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University’s Head of School of Social Work Professor Kieran O’Donoghue has nurtured a deep and rewarding relationship with Singapore’s social work community.

PACE Society, a non-profit that supports sex workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, is closing after 31 years. In a message posted to its website, the society said it was closing because of “operational challenges, funding gaps, and debts,” as well as its charitable funding status being revoked, which affected what kind of funding it could apply for.