Toh Ee Ming

The city-state is rais­ing the salary thresh­old for for­eign­ers to get a work per­mit amid stiff com­pe­ti­tion for jobs.

City-state’s in­vo­ca­tion of for­eign in­ter­fer­ence law high­lights chal­lenges of main­tain­ing a high­ly glob­alised econ­o­my.

The tight­ly-con­trolled city-state has turned down protest re­quests and urged peo­ple not to dis­play po­lit­i­cal sym­bols.

City-state’s anti-mon­ey laun­der­ing con­trols in spot­light af­ter ar­rest of 10 for­eign­ers and seizure of $1.3bn in as­sets.

More than 80 per­cent of po­lice re­ports made by boss­es against their maids do not lead to charges, rights group says.

South Ko­rea is con­sid­er­ing open­ing the door to for­eign do­mes­tic work­ers as part of ef­forts to boost low birthrate.

Low­er liv­ing costs in cities such as Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh are at­tract­ing some ex­pats away from Sin­ga­pore.

South­east Asian city-state is los­ing in­ter­na­tion­al tal­ent as some ex­pats re­port rent hikes as high as 80 per­cent.

Peo­ple drop­ping meals, buy­ing cheap­est prod­ucts as pan­dem­ic leaves con­tract and low-paid strug­gling to make ends meet.