Aging Population

The Struggle To Balance Aging Population Policies

SINGAPORE recently saw the launch of its first inter-generational playground and childcare centre within a nursing home, the St Joseph’s Home in Jurong West. It offers a chance for the elderly...
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Listen & Learn: Build A Track Record — Stephen Riady

DR. STEPHEN RIADY, Executive Chairman, OUE talks about thinking big and building track record in business. OUE has recently soft-opened the trendy OUE DownTown which occupies the previous DBS...

6 Things Only You Can Sustain

IN A case of missing the forest for the trees, we sometimes spend too much time chasing the bigger green ideals, often at the expense of more obvious areas...

Just How Passionate Are We?

"PASSION" and "Singapore" are not often mentioned in the same breath or sentence. Singapore is known for many things — being efficient, a fine city, hub for all sorts of industries,...
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Vernetta Lopez Cross Stitches For Charity

RADIO and TV personality Vernetta Lopez takes to cross stitching and telling tales in her latest effort. As bubbly and lively as we remember her in her television debut as...
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Mixed Grains And Mixed Messages — NDR 2017

TO THE detached observer, this year's National Day Rally (NDR) Message seemed less prime ministerial than usual. In 2015 and 2016, the NDR messages by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong broached...
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2 Pills To Solve The Orchard Road Ills

IT IS no longer a surprise to see large clusters of vacant shops in malls all over Singapore. The retail sales index has shown declines in 27 out of the past...
blockchain

A Bitcoin Bubble Forming?

THE RISE the cryptocurrency has been driven by heavy demand and limited supply. In particular, there has apparently been burgeoning demand for Bitcoin from Japanese investors as well as institutional investors. Such...

Usain Bolt’s Historic Run

IF EVER there was a story that was too good to be true, it would be the tale of the Jamaican lightning Bolt. Usain Bolt just made it seem so...
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Demystifying Bitcoin And Its Intentions

IT CAN be hard to wrap your head around the spectacular rise in value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple. The emergence of cryptocurrency can be partly attributed to...