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Singapore richer, healthier than most English-speaking countries?

SINGAPORE: Singapore is getting so accustomed to superlatives that...

Singaporeans more open to talking about death, but few take concrete steps to prepare

SINGAPORE: A recent survey by the Singapore Management University...

‘This is daylight robbery’: Toast Box patrons upset with difference in menu pictures and actual items

SINGAPORE: Some Toast Box patrons have raised concerns over...

TikToker draws mixed reactions after questioning Singapore’s ‘cleanest city in the world’ tag

SINGAPORE: A TikToker has drawn mixed reactions online after...

Business

‘I’m just a burden,’ 35 year-old Singaporean mum feels defeated after months of job rejections following redundancy

SINGAPORE: A 35-year-old Singaporean mum of two felt completely...

New DBS CEO says businesses should ‘look at new opportunities where they can grow’ amid trade tensions

SINGAPORE: DBS Bank’s new CEO Tan Su Shan said...

4 Singapore tour bus operators suspended from entering Malaysia for unauthorised express services and selling tickets online

SINGAPORE: Four tour bus companies based in Singapore had...

What fresh grads can do in the face of fewer vacancies, tougher job market

SINGAPORE: Amid the current tough job market, recent graduates...

Singapore Politics

Singaporeans weigh in with wish list for next Cabinet, the next Minister for Defence has big shoes to fill

SINGAPORE: We are all guessing on the upcoming Cabinet...

Ng Chee Meng asks PM Wong to exclude him from government role in new leadership lineup

SINGAPORE: Jalan Kayu MP and National Trades Union Congress...

Australian think tank piece says GE2025 results mean Singaporeans have become ‘incredibly savvy voters’

SINGAPORE: The Lowy Institute, a think tank based in...

PM Wong confirms Pritam Singh to remain as leader of the opposition

SINGAPORE: In a Facebook post on May 5, Prime...

Tag: racism

Man asks if ‘working in Singapore as a Black man’ is safe from discrimination, but gets called out as racist by netizens instead

Chinese man allegedly spits at Indian man with Chinese girlfriend on Orchard Rd, says “You should not be with a Chinese girl! Your girlfriend should be my girlfriend!”

Man repeatedly calls 7yo boy and his aunt ‘foreign rubbish’ and then says ‘1000% foreign useless rubbish’ on SBS Transit bus

Netizens say discrimination in Singapore is against the poor, not against any ethnic group

Kanye West’s Twitter & Instagram accounts blocked due to offensive material

‘So proud to be colonizer, is it?’ — Singaporean TikToker encounters racist Caucasian woman in Bali

Customer rejects service from Malay hair stylist; says he’ll return when Chinese hair stylist available: ‘Blatant racism in Singapore?’ — Netizen

‘Lord of the Rings’ cast takes a powerful stance against racist “review bombing” on their new TV series featuring black & brown people

Woman who slapped a little girl on MRT last year back in court, this time for allegedly telling an Indian woman not to sit beside her on the bus and yelling racial slur & profanity

Singapore man says barber from China wouldn’t cut his hair because he didn’t speak Chinese — ‘First time I felt like i’m a foreigner in my own country’