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July 10, 2021 The Straits Times You may know that your neighbour’s five-room BTO flat on the 30 th storey has sold for $1m (and you still feel angsty about having settled for a second-floor unit five years ago). But did you know that there are more than one million HDB flats located all over Singapore and that more than 80 per cent of us live in one? What you also may not be aware of: these things that are considered illegal in a HDB flat. And, unfortunately, striking a gong in front of your neighbour’s home isn’t one of those.

July 07, 2021 Screengrab/Google Maps If you ever bother to look up from your phone and at the many HDB flats around you, you will notice that they chut many patterns, depending on the era that they were built in. And we are only talking about the external facades. Step into the individual units and you will realise that many HDB homes are not built cookie-cutter style, despite their so-called utilitarian role as public housing. For instance, your friend’s five-room unit may have a curved balcony whereas yours may not come with one at all. Or your cousin’s BTO has an enclosed laundry area...

SINGAPORE – Today, fast-growing e-Commerce fulfilment tech company Shippit announces it has signed three new delivery partner deals with integrated logistics solutions provider Janio, global logistics player FedEx, and e-Commerce logistics expert Qxpress. These deals come as part of Shippit’s efforts to rapidly scale up its operations in Southeast Asia following its A$30 million Series B fundraise in December 2020. Apart from strengthening Shippit’s domestic delivery network in Singapore and Malaysia, Shippit’s new partnership with Janio will allow Shippit to open up its delivery lane...

Subscribe to our   channel for the latest stories and updates. Remember pre-covid times of Mega Sales in Malaysia where thousands of discount hungry Malaysians would gather at big convention halls and malls for a chance to snag heavily discounted items? Nowadays, we’re not fighting human traffic and the aunty who bought the last pair of shoes in your size but the internet traffic on e-Commerce platforms when a big sale happens. And instead of the aunty, we’re faced with challenges on whether our purchases will be successfully delivered to our homes. 2020: The rise, drop, and resurrecti...

To seize future opportunities, companies that are selling online need to build on infrastructure that support their businesses, said James Root, senior partner and chairman at Bain Futures, a global think tank of consulting firm Bain & Company. "E-commerce platforms need two pieces of infrastructure: They need great digital payment. The second thing is that they need great supply chain," he told CNBC. "And that's both to manage cross-border products coming into a market like Singapore, having swift customs clearance and easy paper processing for that." "In-market capabilities that are appropr...