The government is getting serious about turning Singapore into a car-lite society with their latest announcement that the car and motorcycle population will henceforth grow at 0%.

The Singapore education system is known for producing top scorers in the PISA test, and for being extremely rigorous in math and science. The medium of instruction is English, which...

The Singaporean Dream got a little more out of reach when the LTA announced recently that they were cutting the vehicle growth rate to zero, down from the current 0.25%,...

Buying a private building under construction, or BUC, is a little different from buying a home that’s already been built.

Singaporeans on car forums found themselves despairing when the LTA announced that they would cut the vehicle growth rate to 0%. The vehicle growth rate for private passenger cars and...

Ever since Singaporeans discovered Taobao.com, more people have started to wish they had paid attention during Chinese lessons back at school. Especially when 11.11 is just around the corner!

Falling ill in Singapore is expensive, or at least that’s what everyone says. But thanks to Medisave, you might feel the pinch (a tiny bit) less.

The face-off between baby boomers and millennials rages on at the workplace. The former continue to be infuriated by the latter’s demand for flexibility and work-life balance, their dislike of...

Last month, I visited Poland for the first time. Imagine my surprise when at least three locals that I met in the capital Warsaw told me they had Singaporean friends...

Gone are the days when the Singaporean uniform was a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, or when blogshop fashion ruled local campuses. The number of bona fide fashionistas has shot...

The end of the year is approaching, and for Singaporeans that doesn’t just mean Christmas presents and New Years’ Eve parties, but also: clearing leave.

The options facing young workers in Singapore today are vastly different from what their parents had to contend with.

Singaporeans embrace Halloween almost as warmly as they do Christmas, as evidenced by the number of people queuing to get into Zouk’s annual Halloween party and Universal Studio’s Halloween Horror...

Singapore’s dog-eat-dog work environment brings to mind young office workers on the brink of burn-out, rushing to work on the MRT every day during rush hour, determined to work hard...

Diamonds are no longer just engagement rings that send brides-to-be into a size-comparing frenzy. Now, investing in diamonds is also a thing. Yes, is it even surprising?

As you stuff yourself into an overcrowded MRT carriage at 8:15am, bursting at the seams with people all rushing to their Raffles Place offices by 9am, you curse your boss...

In case you haven’t heard, Singapore drivers can now pay for their parking coupons online using the Parking.sg mobile app.

Now, we’re pretty hesitant to call any purchase an investment. Contrary to what your shopaholic friend might think, a Chanel handbag is not an investment.

Tuition is such big business in Singapore that it’s not enough for tutors and tuition centres to promise to help kids improve their grades.

The biggest mistake you can make is to avoid negotiating your salary at all. Yes, I know we’ve been raised to be compliant little worker bees and show deference to authority....

Whenever I need to buy something—whether it’s a new laptop, a pair of shoes or a McDonald’s meal—I inevitably turn to the Internet. Now that you can buy virtually anything...

Insurance agents are just one rung below telemarketers on the list of people Singaporeans avoid… until they actually need them.

After the initial furore surrounding Halimah Yaacob being, err, elected as president, Singaporeans have predictably decided it wasn’t worth the fuss and gone back to their daily lives.

Raising a kid in Singapore is expensive, but Singaporeans make it even more expensive than it has to be with their mania for education.

Sending out your resume and begging someone to hire you is a bit like entering the Miss Singapore competition. Get ready to get ripped to shreds.