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Finance professional earning S$4-5k/month says boss keeps dumping projects on them but still won’t promote them

SINGAPORE: A finance professional earning S$4,000 to S$5,000 a month says they're caught in a no-win situation at work, claiming their boss keeps piling on extra projects but still refuses to promo...

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Employer accuses maid and agency of concealing medical issues prior to hiring

Employer feels cheated after maid lied about health condition: ‘I wouldn’t have hired her if I’d known she was medically unfit’ SINGAPORE: An employer says she feels deceived after discovering tha...

‘Get a life’: Singaporean bashed for accusing foreign worker of wearing ‘SAF pants’

Thousands of netizens are scolding the netizen for the hateful and ignorant accusation.

Single-pore: Number of Singapore residents under 40 who never married rose from 2020 to 2025

Three in four female Singaporeans aged 25 to 29 were single in 2025, up from 69% in 2020, according to the Department of Statistics’ General Household Survey,

British man says Singapore lacks nature and things to do, after calling it the worst place he’s visited

A TikTok user going by British_Bert said in a TikTok video that "the worst country he has travelled to". When commenters pushed back against it, he walked it back by trying to explain in another vi...

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‘We’re both broke’: Woman says boyfriend wants the Singapore dream but has no roadmap to get there

SINGAPORE: A 22-year-old woman has turned to Reddit for advice after growing increasingly frustrated with her boyfriend’s big-picture dreams that currently lack any financial roadmap. In her post...

Singaporean man, in his 50s, gets fined S$6.3K, or 3 months’ jail, for filling his SG car with subsidised RON95 fuel in Johor Bahru

One of the first arrest cases under Malaysia's tougher fuel subsidy enforcement, months after it drew attention on both sides of the Causeway

Should rich drivers pay higher traffic fines? Malaysian social activist says yes

Lee Lam Thye says the current flat-rate fine system does not affect offenders equally as the same penalty may have little impact on high-income earners while imposing a significant burden on those ...

Singapore Land Authority: 70,000 people’s personal data exposed in IBM-managed cloud environment security breach

A testing database that should have contained only anonymised records instead exposed real names, NRIC numbers and past property addresses

Singapore traffic police officer gets 16 months’ jail for misusing government systems to help a friend threaten his ex‑girlfriend, who reported him for unlicensed...

The suspended traffic police officer accessed government databases to help a friend trace the person who reported him for unlicensed driving

Yishun hawkers say they keep their nasi lemak at S$2 so elderly residents don’t go hungry

From an IG video from @indonesianseleracorner. The proprietor said she intends to keep the price of her nasi lemak low so people on a budget can still enjoy her food, in spite of an alleged S$10,00...

Free ATM withdrawals, 10-year passports and VEP enforcement: Major changes take effect in Malaysia

Several new laws and regulatory changes have come into effect across Malaysia, including free interbank ATM withdrawals, stricter road safety measures, enhanced digital services, updated business c...

UMNO leader urges PAS for support against their own allies in Johor

Ahmad Maslan urged PAS to back BN and Umno candidates against Muhyiddin Yassin's party - which is allied to PAS - in the Johor election

‘We’re honoured to welcome Jackie Chan’ to Singapore! — Lim Family Foundation announces that JC is coming to visit SG Pei Chun Public School...

The HK action star and martial arts legend will spend time with SG students, organised by the Lim Family Foundation, to inspire young people

About 75% of Singapore women and 85% of Singapore men in their 20s remain single as concern over TFR deepens

About three in four female residents (73.4 per cent) here aged 25 to 29 were single in 2025, up from 69 per cent in 2020. For their male counterparts in the same age bracket, the proportion of sing...

Singapore boss praised after standing up for foreign workers and calling for more compassion

In a TikTok video, the owner of a local construction company has urged that foreign workers be treated with kindness and consideration, in light of recent news of hundreds of workers in Singapore b...

‘Stay in a cave’: Singapore resident upset as new neighbor’s renovation dirties doorstep

On Facebook, a resident complained: Noisy renovations from new neighbours in Singapore Stay 12 year, neighbour sell house, new neighbours do renovations, our doorstep so dirty, so noisy 😡😡😡😡
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