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FairPrice is offering $8 return vouchers, while Giant is giving away 2.5kg bags of rice. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE — Supermarket chain FairPrice will absorb the upcoming one percentage point increase in GST for some daily essentials for the first half of 2024, in what the company said was an effort to cushion the tax hike's impact on consumers. The scheme will offset the tax hike on 500 essential items, including rice, fresh fruit and vegetables, and toilet...

The items covered under the scheme are products that the supermarket’s customers purchase frequently. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Singapore News - Supermarket chain FairPrice will absorb the upcoming 1 percentage point increase in GST for some daily essentials for the first half of 2024, in what the company said was an effort to cushion the tax hike’s impact for consumers. The scheme, which will offset the tax hike... Read more at www.tnp.sg

SINGAPORE — Reform Party chief Kenneth Jeyaretnam has been ordered to put up corrections under the law against fake news, over false statements he made about Singapore's reserves, healthcare spending, and the rental of two black and white bungalows by two ministers. This is the fifth time Jeyaretnam has been issued such a direction. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) said...

A survey found that only 37.6 per cent of S'pore women aged 50 to 69 reported going for a mammography in the last two years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

"The BRS (Basic Retirement Sum) does not prevent members from setting aside more savings in CPF in order to receive a higher retirement payout," Minister Tan clarified.

Dear Ryan, As usual, you and your Team continue to amaze me with the wide range of posts weekly — be it review of landed housing estates, HDB largest and cheapest flat and the issues faced by landlord! I come across this yesterday and thought you might find it useful to post it in that you have always been advising...

Jeyaretnam's third POFMA correction direction in August.

Singapore News - The Majulah Package is a new support package aimed at helping boost the retirement adequacy of lower and... Read more at www.tnp.sg