Depending on who you ask, Singapore is either on track in 2017 for greater success, or is dangerously playing with fire as it tries to involve itself in international diplomacy....

Ask any Singaporean living overseas what he misses most about Singapore, and there’s a 90% chance he’ll say hawker food. Japanese sushi and American burgers are nice and all, but...

Whenever talk of Singapore’s dismal birth rate pops up, you can always count on the government to give people something to snigger at. Let’s not even mention that small spaces...

Recently, one of my friends was complaining about how he’d been stuck at the office till 11pm. “You, on the other hand, don’t even have to work,” he said bitterly.

Just in time for Valentines’ Day, the Straits Times published a report about how online love scams are on the rise, despite other types of online cheating going down.

You have to be careful when you walk into one of those bars where there’s no menu and they create a cocktail based on your personality. Because there’s always the...

All those fancy pictures we’ve been seeing lately on Facebook and pinterest boards have gotten us aspiring to those dream homes. “Mr and Mrs Ling got an industrial haven for...

At the Budget 2017 announcement, there were many important points raised by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, and we’d like to talk about as many of them as possible. But...

So our Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced in his Budget statement on Monday that the CPF Housing Grant for first-timer couples purchasing flats from the resale market has been...

Our local students might have come out tops in the Pisa tests, but that’s actually bad news. It confirms that the Singapore workforce is seriously underperforming relative to its test...

Renting out your condo on Airbnb is a little bit like having gay sex—it’s technically illegal, but the government hasn’t taken any action yet.

The future—it’s something that Singaporeans are constantly worrying about. When parents enrol their kids in 28 different tuition classes, it’s for their future. When couples buy a big flat they...

For every alpha male who steps out of his Ferrari, waves his wallet and sees a thousand girls fall at his feet, there’s someone else whose wife has ditched him...

Your dream trip to France involves the following scenarios: enjoying a picnic and wine from the top of the Eiffel Tower as you’re serenaded on the violin by some guy...

Electric cars have failed to change the world, so far at least. When the first mass-market 100% electric car, the Nissan Leaf, came out in 2010, some imagined we’d finally...

The most mind-crushing boredom I’ve ever experienced was as a student in primary and secondary school. That desperate feeling of being trapped at a desk as you helplessly tried to...

In January this year, the Institute of Policy Studies’ latest proposals addressing Singapore’s ageing population were revealed. The most original of all the ideas was a time-banking system, “Eldersave”, to...

Remember the days when you would hop into a taxi whenever you needed to get somewhere in a hurry or missed the last train home? No? Well, they once existed,...

Welcome to Singapore. We’re a city-state where public transport is, despite the higher rate of breakdowns in recent years, still one of the best in the world. We’re also an...

You already knew the economy was in trouble. But here are some cold, hard figures to back it up—In 2016, employment growth reached a 13-year low, while the unemployment rate...

Despite complaining about the high cost of living, middle-income Singaporeans seem to enjoy a fairly high disposable income. We are some of the Asia Pacific’s top spenders on dining out,...

Ever get the feeling that no matter how hard you work, you seem to be getting even poorer? Why are you working so hard anyway, when you would have more...

For the longest time, all that talk about turning Singapore car-lite sounded like a lot of hot air. Yeah right, said everyone, easy enough for the authorities to tell people...

There will come a time when we realise the true cost of those designer bags and the hipster coffees we’ve been consuming daily. And that will come when we receive...

Ah, young love… in the early days of a new relationship, many people are ready to bend over backwards and do things that they wouldn’t normally do just to please...