On the 9th of August 1991, the armed forces of Malaysia and Indonesia conducted a joint military exercise in Johore Bahru. They executed an airborne insertion a mere 20km from Singapore. If you’re thinking “What’s the...
SDP had claimed that NTUC’s new “Returners Programme Trial” to help retrenched PMETS with financial assistance is a modified version of the SDP’s proposal launched in 201. This is incorrect. NTUC’s Returnship Programme...
Have you ever wondered what would happen when you poured window cleaner into the engine oil sump of a car? Would it make the engine cleaner? Would it make the car go faster? Would it take you back to the future? Well, this...
Hossan Leong has put together a National Day song that befits Singapore to the core. Is it Kiasu? Yes it is, it has all the songs and not just one. Is it rojak? Yes it is, and what can be more Singaporean than rojak? Does it...
Wait…what?! To be precise, it is the Worker’s Party run Aljunied Hougang Town Council (AHTC) that has lodged the action. To be even more precise, it is an independent panel installed by the AHTC that has filed the action. The...
(Note: If you would like to re-publish this article, please go right ahead…don’t need to contact us. We only ask you provide a link back to www.fivestarsandamoon.com :D ) You must have read her post, but in...
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...