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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: migrant workers in lorries

‘No space is safe in the lorry’: HOME calls for ban on lorry transport, asks for subsidies to help firms transition to safer transport

Migrant worker sues his Singapore bosses after he fell from overcrowded lorry, wins lawsuit against firm

‘Is this how they should be treated?’ — Video of migrant workers getting rained in open lorry upsets Singaporeans

New requirements for transporting workers in lorries include rain covers & “vehicle buddy”

WP’s He Ting Ru: Need to do more to keep migrant workers safe in transit to and from work

Migrant worker trapped in lorry after collision with another stationary lorry in Jurong

Thousands sign petition asking LTA to make safe transport mandatory after photos of migrant workers in lorries during rain circulate

After netizen posts photo of lorry ferrying migrant workers with lock outside, others ask if it’s a ‘prisoner transport’

Writer wonders if migrant workers would agree that SG now “world’s best place to be during Covid”