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Monday With The Editor

Strangers in our own land?

Where I live, in Hougang, I have been seeing more foreigners nowadays, sometimes during my routine walks to the neighbourhood shopping centre and the MRT station, and often while I am on the bus within Hougang.

For the past few years, Indian and Chinese nationals were a common sight in Hougang, but now, it also appears [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Chinese New Year merry-making

Did you enjoy your Chinese New Year holidays? Well, the Chinese here have been merry-making the past week. With the first day of Chinese New Year falling on a Wednesday, it meant that the rest of the week till Sunday was a super-long weekend for much of Singapore’s population.

Though there was school on Friday, attendance [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Reliving new year memories

The advertisement in The Straits Times today reads:
“Today & Tomorrow only, 7 & 8 Feb – Free Fresh Eggs 30’s”

Yes! Giant, Shop-N-Save and G’Value are offering a free tray of fresh eggs today and tomorrow for the first 100* customers each day spending S$30 and above in a single receipt.

A line in red reads, “Hurry, [...]