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‘Something better and not less’: Woman says upgrade on playground at Pasir Ris Street feels more like a downgrade

SINGAPORE: A woman took to social media to air...

Singaporean man says he’s confused why people keep saying public housing is ‘unaffordable for low-income individuals’

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man has sparked a debate online...

“Things will pan out well” – PSP candidate on potential three-cornered fight at Marymount SMC

SINGAPORE: Progress Singapore Party's (PSP) candidate for Marymount SMC...

Ex-WP MP and PSP member call for universal minimum wage

SINGAPORE: The time has come for a universal minimum...

Business

Employee terminated for not agreeing to work on Saturdays, asks Singaporeans, ‘Is this wrongful termination?’

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean employee has allegedly been terminated after...

After CDL fallout, analysts push for clearer governance in Singapore’s family-run firms

SINGAPORE: Property giant City Developments Limited's (CDL's) public boardroom...

‘Depression is setting in:’ Employee desperately seeks advice on how to handle a ‘legendarily bad boss’

SINGAPORE: An exhausted employee took to social media to...

CapitaLand Investment to launch first retail REIT in China’s SSE with RMB2.8B of assets

SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI: CapitaLand Investment (CLI) announced that it has applied...

Singapore Politics

Kala Manickam calls out Ng Chee Meng’s political comeback: ‘Jalan Kayu doesn’t need a politician staging a return‘

SINGAPORE: In a striking public statement ahead of the...

Jamus Lim saying ‘What we’re trying to deny PAP is a blank cheque’ in 2020 debate emerges again

SINGAPORE: While the Workers’ Party’s (WP) Jamus Lim released...

GE2025: Minister Desmond Lee to anchor West Coast-Jurong West GRC, Foo Mee Har passing baton to new faces

SINGAPORE: All eyes will be on the West Coast...

Josephine Teo saying ‘Opposition will turn your house into a house of cards’ resurfaces

SINGAPORE: You know the General Election (GE) is coming...

Tag: high food prices

We walked away from cai fan food stall without paying even after ordering since the hawker charged us $11.60 instead of $7.40

S$17.50 meal at hot pot stall shocks diner; she regrets not reading the food reviews first before ordering

“One fresh, one rotting!” — ‘Ah Kau’ laments that grapefruit is “cheaper and more fresh lehhh” in JB than in SG

“S$12 for 1 piece of asam pedas fish?” — Customer left in a state of disbelief with the ‘high price’ he was charged for his fish meal order

Additional charge of $6 for Chinese sausage turns cai png definitely uneconomical

“Economical bee hoon” for $7.70? — Customer asks coffee shop at Punggol to confirm price, but shop “auntie simply ignores her”

$7.40 for kaya toast set deemed “ridiculous” by Singaporeans online

Exorbitantly priced $9.30 cai png stuns hawker centre diner

S$5.10 for 3.5 thin fish slices in soup at SGH — Diner complains; Koufu apologises

Chicken chop now selling for S$8?! Singaporeans raise concerns on “at least 50% price increase” at Western food stalls