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Job seeker asks: ‘Is it really that hard to get hired now, or is it just me?’

SINGAPORE: A job seeker who has been applying for...

Singapore negotiating US concessions on pharmaceutical exports and high-end AI chips access

SINGAPORE: Singapore is negotiating concessions with the United States...

‘I find myself paying S$10 for fried noodles at a business district’: Resident asks Singaporeans how they are coping with rising costs

SINGAPORE: A concerned resident took to an online forum...

NTUC Union and Link members to enjoy 50 cents hot kopi or teh in May, plus ongoing 50% off essentials

SINGAPORE: NTUC Union and Link members will be able...

Business

MIDA champions Malaysia’s rise as Asia’s new supply chain hub through JS-SEZ partnership with Singapore

MALAYSIA: The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) has expressed...

CLAS reports 4% YoY gross profit increase for Q1 FY2025

SINGAPORE: CapitaLand Ascott Trust (CLAS) reported a 4% year-on-year...

ST Engineering bags S$4.4B in new contracts for Q1 2025, boosted by defence and public security and commercial aerospace deals

SINGAPORE: Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) secured S$4.4 billion...

Singapore banks drive share buybacks, set to be biggest in four years, after dip in share prices

SINGAPORE: Singapore banks are seizing the opportunity presented by...

Singapore Politics

Pritam Singh: Maybe SM Lee only wants to present one side of facts on Income-Allianz deal

SINGAPORE: The thwarted deal between Income and Allianz last...

WP’s Andre Low: Ng Chee Meng and I represent 2 very different kinds of candidates

SINGAPORE: At a doorstep interview on Sunday (Apr 27),...

Pritam Singh: If PM says he needs over 2/3 of Parliament to be PAP MPs to govern properly, that’s a ‘serious problem’

SINGAPORE: In a doorstep interview on Sunday (April 27),...

GE2025: Which candidates could lose their deposits?

SINGAPORE: With less than a week to go before...

Entertainment

Michael Jackson’s orbit, 10 years later

Macabre musical ‘Sweeney Todd’, starring Lea Salonga, is set to hit the stage in Singapore for the first time this November

Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding has two action movies lined up under newly-launched production company

Everything you need to know about Kpop’s HallyuPopFest 2019

Joe Hahn on being part of Linkin Park, K-pop and working with BTS

BTS makes history as Top Duo/Group and three-time Top Social Artist at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards

Thai cave rescue story to be turned into a mini-series by Netflix and team behind Crazy Rich Asians

Petition for Spongebob Squarepants song to be played at 2019 Super Bowl garner 1 million signatures and counting

Angelina Jolie 2020? Movie star hints at possible entry in politics

YouTuber may face charges for calling Miss Universe dress designed by Thai princess “ugly”