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Singapore – A concerned member of the public took to social media to appeal for support for an elderly hawker at Chinatown. Long queues were spotted the following day. Taking to Facebook page Hawkers United – Dabao 2020 on Monday...

Singapore—A June 7 article in Global Finance, a New York-based monthly finance magazine, touts Mr Lawrence Wong as the “New Finance Minister To Stabilize Singapore”. Mr Wong’s success as Finance Minister will affect not only the succession plan of the...

A reader has submitted the following letter for publication in Independent SG: You may be aware that the Ministry of Education has a "principle of equal misery" system when it comes to staff matters. In the past, teachers will be posted...

Singapore — A leading online LGBT publication in Asia has praised PAP MP Baey Yam Keng for featuring a transgender man in his Instagram live chat on Sunday night (Sept 27). The publication, Dear Straight People, wrote in a Facebook...

As the dust from General Elections 2020 settles down and as Singaporeans turn to their daily grind, one does have a question: How will Singapore progress henceforth and in light of post Covid-19? The immediate economic prospects look gloomy, but...

Dear Editor, I read with sadness and regret about Loki, the dog (May 8). Perhaps it is an occupational hazard that, being on a job for too long, vets have forgotten the meaning of euthanasia. It is carried out to terminate...

Flip flops in policies is a never-ending game in Malaysian policies and leadership. Especially, when it concerns race and religion. Racial integration is achieved not by coercion but by co-existence. Interpretations and directives pertaining to the significance of festivals...

After a retiree wrote in to straitstimes.com’s Forum section with a letter titled: “Forum: Cost of hospital MRI higher than private clinic’s”, the hospital, Changi General Hospital (CGH) responded (Dec 31), with an explanation of their own. They wrote that...

Two people have written letters about the charges at the National University Hospital (NUH) and Changi General Hospital (CGH). The first letter, published on straitstimes.com and titled "Forum: Stuck with high bill for cataract operation and follow-up visits", was about...

By Chow He Shen What did Lee Kuan Yew really mean when he said that 99-year HDB flats will enjoy generous HDB upgrading and their value “will never go down”. Did LKY really mean that the value of a HDB flat...