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Job seeker asks: ‘Is it really that hard to get hired now, or is it just me?’

SINGAPORE: A job seeker who has been applying for...

Singapore negotiating US concessions on pharmaceutical exports and high-end AI chips access

SINGAPORE: Singapore is negotiating concessions with the United States...

‘I find myself paying S$10 for fried noodles at a business district’: Resident asks Singaporeans how they are coping with rising costs

SINGAPORE: A concerned resident took to an online forum...

NTUC Union and Link members to enjoy 50 cents hot kopi or teh in May, plus ongoing 50% off essentials

SINGAPORE: NTUC Union and Link members will be able...

Business

MIDA champions Malaysia’s rise as Asia’s new supply chain hub through JS-SEZ partnership with Singapore

MALAYSIA: The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) has expressed...

CLAS reports 4% YoY gross profit increase for Q1 FY2025

SINGAPORE: CapitaLand Ascott Trust (CLAS) reported a 4% year-on-year...

ST Engineering bags S$4.4B in new contracts for Q1 2025, boosted by defence and public security and commercial aerospace deals

SINGAPORE: Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) secured S$4.4 billion...

Singapore banks drive share buybacks, set to be biggest in four years, after dip in share prices

SINGAPORE: Singapore banks are seizing the opportunity presented by...

Singapore Politics

Pritam Singh: Maybe SM Lee only wants to present one side of facts on Income-Allianz deal

SINGAPORE: The thwarted deal between Income and Allianz last...

WP’s Andre Low: Ng Chee Meng and I represent 2 very different kinds of candidates

SINGAPORE: At a doorstep interview on Sunday (Apr 27),...

Pritam Singh: If PM says he needs over 2/3 of Parliament to be PAP MPs to govern properly, that’s a ‘serious problem’

SINGAPORE: In a doorstep interview on Sunday (April 27),...

GE2025: Which candidates could lose their deposits?

SINGAPORE: With less than a week to go before...

Monthly Archives: September 2024

“Teachers just dump 2 sets of papers for each subject on us in the last 2 days before holidays” — SG student laments about excessive homework

Singapore stocks for your dividend delight: 3 SG companies just raised their bar

SG man’s flyer ad says, “looking for someone to BTO with me” — Singaporeans poke fun and get creative on what “BTO” actually means

“It is our territory” — Malaysia says “no” to China’s demands to halt oil exploration in the South China Sea

“Waste of food” — Singaporean complains that throwing away food offerings in the ghost month is treating “food like garbage”

Jobless Singaporean man asks, “How do you deal with depression and anxiety during long-term unemployment?”

Reduced LTV limit for HDB housing loans could dampen sales of expensive resale flats, experts say

MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2024 pre-show to feature performance by LE SSERAFIM

Singapore’s rich legacy of women MPs — on both sides of the House

EXO Baekhyun’s latest solo “Hello, World” breaks his first-week sales record in just one day