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Low Thia Khiang Foreign  domestic workers are no longer a luxury but a necessity for Singaporeans to cope with the growing demands of family life, said opposition MP Low Thia Khiang. As such, he called for a complete removal of the foreign maid levy, which currently costs families between S$170 and S$265. "Hiring a domestic... 

A smartphone application is touting itself as helping aspiring Singapore citizens pass a new mandatory online quiz - even though the quiz has yet to be introduced and the government has never given full details of what it will entail. Since Dec 22 last year, a developer called Glovebox has sold an application to prep users for... 

Singaporean Ramzi Mohamed is tired of sleeping in the living room of the two-bedroom apartment he shares with his mother and older brother. His problem is that housing prices in the city-state are up almost 70 percent since 2006 while the 29-year-old gym administrator's monthly salary of 1,200 Singapore dollars ($938) hasn't...