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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: parenting in Singapore

Parenting by lying linked to more lie-telling in children

Woman allows her child with shoes on food items counter, boy falls

Mum asks Singapore parents: ‘How do you ask a stranger to delete a photo they’ve taken of your toddler?’

‘Great parenting there!’ — Netizens tell parent who scolded an uncle after he patted her 3-year-old daughter on the head

Netizen witnesses mother publicly humiliating her son and making him kneel for 1 hr to apologize to her at food court

27-year-old Singaporean man asks if it’s ‘unnatural to be sleeping in the same room as my parents?’

Netizens say moving out improved their relationship with parents, one said it saved her from ‘Asian mom problems’

Netizen asks 377A repeal supporters if they would also accept their own children if they came out as LGBTQ+

Man says his parents weaponize filial piety through guilt manipulation & emotional blackmail to dissuade him, asks for advice

Why 1 in 4 kids in Singapore don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom, root cause of problem & solution identified