Hundred Palms Residences sold every single one of their 531 units within just 7 hours. Hundreds of buyers turned up at the project’s showflat as early 10am to book their units. In 2017, private property sales rose 7% to...
A year before Singapore gained her independence, an event took place which changed our fate forever – The 1964 Racial Riot. On 21 July 1964, 22 people were killed and 454 suffered serious injuries as a result of the...
In a letter to the forums, Lim Lea Lea, Director of Branch Operations at the HDB clarified that purchasers of HDB flats are “owners of their property”. This definition is neither legally accurate, nor socially...
Cash is king, albeit an old, aged and primitive one. It is cumbersome, it is bulky, it is susceptible to decay, it is convenient for corruption and it stinks (but oh, does it stink so good). It costs a lot of money to deal...
The following article has been contributed by Gregory Wee. Foreign Domestic Workers, or maids in colloquial speak, have been known to suffer from low wages, no or little time off from work, loss of privacy and extremely...
In a nutshell – 50/50. All around the world, the economic outlook has improved. There is more stability, more predictability and less volatility. However for us at home, there are still several issues weighing Singapore...
There is so much news over the past few weeks, you can easily name the top few: 38 Oxley, SMRT breakdowns, PM Lee at G20. But there’s one piece of very significant news, very relevant to Singapore and one that gives rich...
We have been told time and again that without increased productivity, companies will lose competitiveness and be less able to sell their products or services. Poor productivity is the convenient scapegoat for low wages, job...
In a physically secure country such as Singapore, terrorist attacks may not come from guns, knives and run-away cars. It may come from more creative means, such as on computers. But what harm can computers do? So far, the most...
Singapore and Germany deepened ties and affirmed greater co-operation between the two countries. A joint declaration on strengthening cybersecurity cooperation to deepen information exchange between the two countries was signed...