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Prabhu Silvam
Prabhu Silvam

Young people starting out in the jobs market face a hit to their prospects that could endure years after the Covid-19-induced downturn has run its course.

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Singapore tops the world in life expectancy, but for some of its citizens long lives come with a sting in their tail. Increasingly, people in their 60s and 70s are finding themselves caring not only for their children – but for their parents, too

Labourers in the Lion City are paid about US$15 a day, leaving them little choice but to turn to low cost caterers for their meals. Unfortunately, that means food that is nutritionally questionable – and often downright rotten

Cheap rent, food and sex once drew Chinese foreign workers – and plenty of locals – to the enclave. But two decades on, Geylang is a shadow of its former self, a situation that saddens many of its residents

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More than 70 years on from the fighting, the horrors of war still haunt the survivors. For them, there may be one thing worse than dying in war: surviving it.