Amidst the hustle and bustle of lunch hour, a member of the canteen staff approached the press team, and spoke of gluten-free food with an element of vivacity akin to a kid in a candy shop, it was clear as day that this was a woman who loved her job. Beneath the classic cafeteria lady…
Formal, polished, professional. The THIMUN dress code nonnegotiables echo in your head as you attempt to get ready. Your meticulously prepared speech was rehearsed to perfection, but choosing what to wear is proving to be a completely different story. We’ve all been there — blazers tossed on chairs and blouses strewn on the floor, as…
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Signing Off A thank you letter from the THIMUN Thread. As THIMUN Singapore 2024 comes to an end, we’d like to give our closing remarks on the council as a whole. It’s been an exhilarating journey, filled with highs and lows cutting through the often boring debate, drawing much laughter from delegates within a…
Efforts of censorship albeit masked as regulation. This has been a defining strategy the more conservative member states of the SDC have adopted by educating the female population with the goal of sustainable development. A decision that the remaining delegates of the house, specifically the Delegates of Germany, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, swiftly demolished,…
You are what you eat. It is with no doubt that this token statement applies to the canary-yellow minions of Despicable Me, with a strange affinity to bananas. However, what you eat is quite literally a mirror of your physiological and psychological well-being. A phenomenon coined as biohacking by nutritionists and geneticists alike. Biohacking refers…
As our planet rapidly warms up, it seems that the fragile peace in our world could become stressed by climate change. Many nations in the world lack the economic ability or real estate to switch their nations onto renewable energy, and as the world starts to feel the heat, it’s now up to GA6 to…
As the world decolonised in the latter half of the 21st Century, we see certain territories remaining as colonies of larger states, including many small islands. Each of these islands has different reasons for remaining a colony, but it all links back to their size, or rather lack thereof. In some way or the other,…
Down with the Chair? “If you can motion to remove a delegate for disruptive behavior, you should be able to remove a chair.” The chair is undoubtedly intrinsic to a Model United Nations conference — they control the flow of the discussions and ensure the smooth running of sessions. But when they believe that a…
“Are You Saying It Was Sabotage?!” The THIMUN Thread tackles the accusations of plagiarism that plagued GA3. In the closing hours of the second day, a shocking turn of events occurred when cries of suspected plagiarism rang out from GA3— wild accusations running around. The scandal soon got the attention of the THIMUN thread, making…