Many lament today's sluggish book industry, but in the golden years of Singapore's book trade, bookshops flourished along North Bridge Road. The flurry of bookstore closures in recent years prompted the Chou Sing Chu Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by...
Rather appropriately for the Year of the Rooster, Mr Tan Peng Ann has hatched a project for poor Cambodians to scratch out a living and feather their nests. A chicken breeding programme called One Rooster Seven Hens, it took months...
It used to be that vagrants would remain, unseen and unheard, at the margins of society. They bedded down in tents on the beach or slept on cardboard in the dark corners of staircase landings and void decks. But a...
For 17 years, Mr David Ridsdale slept sitting up, in the same chair, at the same table outside a restaurant in China Square Central. Slumped over the table, a numbness would sometimes set in. One strap of his backpack would...
Newcastle University announced the establishment of a scholarship on Friday, by Alibaba founder and Executive Chairman Ma through the Jack Ma Foundation. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Xinhua News Agency reported that the scholarship was introduced because the...
Fewer homeless families are being picked up by the authorities. Last year, 93 families were admitted to shelters, compared with 144 in 2013. In contrast, 71 homeless individuals moved into transitional shelters, compared with 49 in 2013. Another 105 were sent...
A "town hall" meeting was in progress, with lively chatter from those huddled together over dinner. But this was no government feedback or consultation session. There was no comfortable air-conditioned room either. Instead, waves crashed on the shore, barely metres...
Others might prefer spots where there are bright lights and bathrooms, but Mr Kamal is content with a staircase landing. "I prefer to sleep on my own... no one bothers me," said the odd-job worker, 52, who declined to give...
Maria, in her 50s, moved out of the rental flat she shared with her son when they could not get along. She spends her days now at a 24-hour coffee shop in Chinatown before going to bed along a corridor...
Blogger Wendy Cheng's Web video series Xiaxue's Guide To Life and Jack Neo's Ah Boys To Men film franchise are well-known shows among Singaporeans. For one thing, they are filled with colloquial terms, local references and copious doses of...
