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Tutor turns nasty after parent declines to make advance payment or loan him $500

SINGAPORE: A family's search for a private tutor ended...

Two arrested, weapons seized after video of vicious assault goes viral online

SINGAPORE: A man and a woman have been arrested...

24-year-old male student arrested in connection with voyeurism case at NTU

SINGAPORE: A 24-year-old has been arrested in connection with...

Not everyone agrees with Tan Kin Lian’s suggestion that Singaporeans face higher living costs than Malaysians

SINGAPORE: Former presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian apparently wanted...

Business

141 HDB resale flats sold for at least $1 million in April

SINGAPORE: Last month saw the highest number of Housing...

5-room Sengkang HDB flat sells for $1.058 million

SINGAPORE: A five-room HDB unit joined the million-dollar flat...

Newton condo resells for S$12M in April, resulting in S$6.5M profit

SINGAPORE: The resale market for condominiums, just like the...

Feeling invisible at work? Take back the spotlight with these power moves

In a Reddit post, a software engineer ranted because...

Singapore Politics

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...

Long weekend or rising apathy? Some wonder at low voter turnout for GE2025

SINGAPORE: On Sunday (May 4), the Elections Department (ELD)...

SG Economy

AHTC: Sylvia Lim and Low Thia Khiang need not recuse themselves from financial matters

Singaporeans urge MOE against punishing children by withholding results slips over unpaid school fees

WP releases working paper proposing ideas on how to deal with steadily decreasing HDB flat value

Veteran politician Low Thia Khiang caught “terrorizing” aunties during WP walkabout

Exam results slip allegedly withheld from pupil with cancer-stricken mother and retrenched father due to fee arrears

Jo Teo slammed for asking people to weigh 60,000 unemployed workers against the 97 per cent who are in jobs

“Ministers are OVERPAID” – SDP promises to push for ministerial salary cut if elected into Parliament

SDP chairman Paul Tambyah blasts MOE for humiliating children for their parents’ problems

Activist sets up fund to pay school fees for needy children after giving out S$1,000 to families

MOM Minister Teo describes current economic slowdown as “persistent showers but with pockets of sunshine”