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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...

James Gomez: The academic, activist, and opposition voice contesting Sembawang GRC in GE2025

SINGAPORE: As Singapore gears up for the General Election...

Business

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...

Study finds leader well-being drives organisational well-being and performance

SINGAPORE: Leader well-being was seen as the most significant...

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...

Relationships

33yo guy with girlfriend for 3 years pays for her meals, dates, transport to work, even her school fees; yet she berates him for being useless

Help, whenever we go out, my girlfriend prefers to sit next to our guy friend instead of me

Husband gets blamed by wife for not making enough money to make ends meet, while she spends money on unnecessary things

3 out of 5 Singaporeans have ghosted or have been ghosted while dating, even if 65% say it’s not right to ghost someone

Husband says his wife’s colleague been harassing her for 2 years, texts her ‘love u, I love your scent’ etc., but netizens ask what his wife replied

27-year-old man dating 34-year-old woman lied to her about his age, asks if he should reveal his real age now since they’re officially together

Woman earning $2K/month asks if it’s worth moving out and rent a place for $700 to get away from family conflicts

Girlfriend asks if she should dump her boyfriend because he wants to be a Grab driver and do odd jobs

Sugar baby makes S$4,550/month, her sugar daddy also pays for her master’s degree, but netizens unhappy cos she says she’s ‘her own independent’

Online dating safety tips & rules to protect you from either robbery, abduction, rape, or even worst, all of the above, and death!