Can Singapore Football Be Saved?

FOR ALL football’s popularity, so much about it has changed for the negative. It has evolved from an innocent pastime into a devious monster grabbing for that golden cup of plenty. Many...

What Is Singapore Literature’s Story?

AT A time when reading usually means gawking at ‘shareable content’ on social media, books seem to have taken a back seat. Or have they? In talking to authors and poets...
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Will New Taxi Fares Bring New Customers?

Competition, complaints, changes, and even government intervention has caused a bit of a shake up in the transport sector in the last year. On 29 March, ride-hailing app Grab will...

Are We Fighting Fit?

TWO nights ago, FC Barcelona showed its resilience by clawing back from the greatest deficit in the Champions League. From 0-4 down in the first leg, they fought back to win...

Battling It Out On Social Media

COMPLAINING — Singapore’s favourite pastime. Train delay — complain to SMRT. Unhappy at work — complain about the boss. Lunch not up to scratch — complain to coffee shop uncle....

The Plain Vanilla Budget

PEOPLE make fun of vanilla, but it’s an extremely versatile and enduring flavour. When everything looks colourful and there are too many decisions to be made, vanilla is the faithful...

Start-Up Fever

THE FUTURE is uncertain. But we still have to eat. Two companies related to the food and beverage business have taken on the incumbents to develop business models that they hope...

Readying The Arrows

THE methods may change, but the end game is still the same; the need for Cupid to let loose that arrow straight for the heart. In the age of commercialism...

9 Alternative Getaways for 2017

  ONE month into the New Year and some of us are already thinking about taking a break from the rat race. Unfortunately, with all the shifting and flux going in the...

Will The Rooster Year Be Cagey?

THE FIRE Rooster follows a mischievous Monkey year when the world went ape over a variety of economic and global issues. What fortunes and pitfalls will strut in this Rooster year? There...