NTUC Foodfare takes over Old Airport Road hawker centre and ups dishwashing...
In a media report on Sat (20 Oct), it was revealed that currently, 13 out of 114 hawker centres across Singapore are managed by five social enterprises: Fei Siong Food Management, NTUC Foodfare, Timbre...
View ArticleSpike in child abuse cases recorded in Singapore in recent years
A spike in cases involving child abuse has been recorded in recent years, with the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) observing an increase of 21 cases, from 873 in 2016 to 894 in 2017. An...
View ArticleNEA: Hawker centres run by social enterprises have met objectives of...
With barrage of letters and online complaints against "social enterprises" running publicly-funded hawker centres, Director of NEA's Hawker Centres Division, Ivy Ong, personally wrote to ST Forum today...
View ArticleNEA will do a stocktake of the social enterprise model at hawker centres
Senior Minister of State of the Environment & Water Resources, Dr Amy Khor said that the National Environment Agency (NEA) will be doing a ‘stocktake’ of the social enterprise model at hawker...
View ArticleIs NTUC trying to create its own monopoly or is it trying to keep costs down?
The price of food is one of the most important issues any country will ever have to deal with. It is an absolute necessity and a commodity that everyone needs in order to live. It is on the premise of...
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PM Lee: Don’t flaunt wealth and GST to increase after 2021
At a post-National Day Rally dialogue at Ci Yuan Community Club last Sunday (14 Oct), PM Lee told the grassroots leaders that Singapore must not allow social stratification to harden. "The way you...
View ArticleHDB: We lose $1.7 billion in last FY to build and upgrade your flats
In its annual report released yesterday (22 Oct), the HDB said it incurred an overall deficit of $1.717 billion in the financial year of 2017/2018, up from $1.189 billion in the previous financial...
View ArticleLiterary NGO Singapore Unbound calls upon Singaporean writers to condemn...
New York City-based literary non-profit Singapore Unbound has called upon Singaporean writers to explicitly condemn and to petition against the imprisonment of artist Seelan Palay, which it has deemed...
View Article14-member committee convened to prepare for Singapore’s nomination of hawker...
Amid the furore surrounding social enterprise hawker centres recently, and following Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s announcement to nominate Singapore’s hawker culture as a part of the UNESCO...
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Why would the government lose money in sale of HDB flats?
The Housing Development Board (HDB) reported on Mon (22 Oct) that it had incurred an overall deficit of $1.7 billion in the last FY. In 2013, then National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan explained...
View ArticleGovernment policy largely shapes social attitudes
While I am heartened that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (PM Lee) is talking about inequality, I am not really sure if he has said anything new or offered any solutions to the issue. That said, I am...
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Study by NTU ranks Singapore as second in terms of fare affordability out of...
Singapore ranked second in terms of fare affordability, across 12 major cities, which is measured as the proportion of disposable household income spent on public transport for the second quintile...
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NTUC allegedly coercing hawkers into signing legal documents in English...
A viral Facebook post by Gary Ho on Tuesday (23 Oct) revealed the extent to which hawkers are treated by the management of the hawker centre, and in this particular case, NTUC's oppressive rules...
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Old Airport Road Hawker Centre saga: MP Lim rebuts FB user
A Facebook user, Gary Ho, made a post on his Facebook page yesterday (23 Oct). In his post, Gary recalled how he loves the Old Airport Road Hawker Centre and would even take his foreign friends there...
View ArticleMalaysian national set to be hung this Friday in Singapore. Malaysian...
Prabu N Pathmanathan, a 31-year-old Malaysian national is slated to be executed this Friday (26 October 2018) Changi Prison Complex. Prabu was first arrested for drug trafficking on 31 December 2014...
View ArticleSingapore Police Force issues stiff warning against former DBS employee over...
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has issued a stern warning against a former DBS employee who had posted an illustration of a T-shirt with the Singapore flag being torn with the Indian flag underneath...
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Operating fees spike at another hawker centre managed by NTUC – Whampoa...
NEA appoints NTUC to manage hawker centres Two years ago on 20 Dec, the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced its appointment of NTUC Foodfare as the new managing agent of seven hawker centres,...
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Foodfare’s statement regarding Old Airport Road Hawker Centre contradictory...
NTUC Foodfare, the agent that manages the Old Airport Road Food Centre, has retaliated against complaints made by hawkers which were made viral by user Gary Ho on Facebook, among which include almost...
View Article3 executions set to take place within a span of 48 hours in Singapore —...
While the newly elected Pakatan Harapan Government prepares to abolish the death penalty and ramps up its efforts to save the lives of Malaysians who are on death row abroad, their counterparts across...
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NEA draws flak for alleged inaction regarding possibly exploitative...
Social enterprise hawker centres managed by operators such as NTUC Foodfare and Koufu Group's subsidiary Hawker Management have become a controversial contemporary topic following a blog post renowned...
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