Do you spend all your spare time fantasising about your next overseas holiday? Do you religiously save up all your annual leave to use on travel? Then you want to...

Networking is something everybody knows they should be doing, but many don’t for fear of coming off as slimy and opportunistic. After all, Singaporeans are taught to be modest and...

Singaporeans can’t get enough of Australia. There are thousands of us studying there, and every holiday season planeloads of us head to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to visit friends and...

We’re getting to that time of year when bonuses are doled out to employees. That means it’s time to evaluate your career and, if the time is right, to quit...

When planning a first trip to Italy, most visitors flock to Rome, Venice, Florence and Milan. Now, there’s no question that these cities are all amazing destinations in their own...

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....