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Last year, the Singapore government unveiled four Budgets amounting to nearly S$ 100 million to help citizens, workers and businesses tide over the COVID-19 pandemic. This unprecedented support comes as the pandemic engulfs businesses in the greatest challenge they have ever faced. Many firms are affected by extended closures, causing …

Getting scouted as an artist is no simple task. While there is an appreciator for every kind of artwork, there are not a lot of platforms out there that let you connect the artist with the appreciator immediately. Virtually, Twitter could be a place that gets an artist’s work around, …

In their 2020 COVID-19 Labour Pulse Survey, employment agency Randstad Malaysia found that 91% of Malaysians intend to upskill and reskill. Dictionary Time: Reskilling is the process of learning new skills so you can do a different job, or of training people to do a different job. Talentguard 55% of them …

At a time where the fight for market share in the global Android smartphone market was thought to be over, it is difficult to imagine a new entrant posing a significant challenge to existing smartphone brands. This is especially so when it takes hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D …

With AI being more present in different industries these days, it may be a concern for some about whether or not they will be replacing human talents. For the law industry, however, having an AI to help out with the workload is probably news that many lawyers would rejoice for.  …

Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) store Eu Yan Sang is a household brand in Singapore with origins dating back to the 1800s. It is also one of the largest TCM groups in Asia, with over 210 retail outlets in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore. Besides retailing Chinese medicine and …

Social media personalities, or better known as ‘influencers’, have earned a bad reputation for making ‘easy money’. Many people see them as individuals who’re in the business simply for free events and products, but many tend to miss out the fact that there’s actually a lot of hard work that …

Author’s blurb: Because I’m primarily an English speaker, classes that were conducted in Mandarin and Malay back in my schooling years were dreadful. My difficulty in understanding them coupled with a lack of interest and practice were some of the reasons I now struggle to converse in these languages as …

Singapore’s retail tech startup Crown Technologies announced today (Jan 11) that it inked its first major, cross-border deal with JR East Business Development SEA Pte. Ltd, a subsidiary of East Japan Railway Company. This brings the company to an initial valuation of S$ 33 million. The Crown brand is one …