The Christmas season brings to mind wintry scenes and happy families, chestnuts roasting on an open fire and presents under the tree. Well, except if...

Most Singaporeans have some awareness of how expensive falling sick can get here. But guess what—it seems like, for all our complaining, we’re still n...

Considering the amount of time Singaporeans spend buying and then renovating their homes, they don’t get to spend as much time in them as they might l...

Singaporeans are very proud of the fact that theirs is one of the safest cities in the world, often citing as proof their ability to walk around at 3...

In Singapore, you might not find scammers at street markets who’ll try to charge you five times the actual price of an item, or street hawkers who har...

As much as Singaporean parents are (I hope) happy to let their kids de-stress a little during the school holidays, if both are juggling full-time jobs...

When I was at school, local JCs and secondary schools were notoriously bad at providing career guidance. Poly and university courses were pretty much...

Retail businesses have had it bad in Singapore. Once-bustling malls now look like Lim Chu Kang on a Saturday night, and many once-ubiquitous retailers...

When you have a friend who doesn’t know the difference between company stock and chicken stock, beware when he proudly announces he’s just bought some...

One of Singapore’s biggest claims to fame has been the fact that, well, the country’s pretty wealthy. On the surface, it looks like everyone’s either...