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Not surprisingly, the Americans are outpacing the Chinese when it comes to buying properties in Singapore. According to Ms Christine Sun, OrangeTee & Tie’s senior vice-president of research and analytics, “Mainland Chinese were the largest group of foreign buyers in Singapore from 2017 to 2022 and in the first quarter... 

I read with mixed feelings of sympathy and puzzlement for the “Rental S$300 per day” — Netizen shares plight of hawkers at pasar malam (The Independent News Singapore, July 11) It is very sad to notice that the rental of one pasar malam (night market) or bazaar stall has cost between S$300 and S$666 per day depending upon... 

I’ve never been much of a salesperson. My main issue is the fact that I grew up in a family that took pride in being “professional middle-class” and the “sales” was regarded as something that was a little less than classy. I was told that I was the “academic” one in the family that was my destiny to do things that...