[Post 1130] Indonesian Gen Z Caters US$1 Meals For Muslim Students During Ramadan Fasting Month | Money Mind

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How to grow your catering business during the fasting month.   

[Post 1129] Teen Dropouts Try To Get Lives Back On Track: Will They Make It? | On The Red Dot: Dropouts - Pt 3/3

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After a year of not attending school, 17-year-old Mohd Sulaiman Bin Mohd Lizam arrives for his first class at Project Starfish but finds his anxiety acting up upon seeing a class of 60 to 70 students. He tries to juggle this new routine of being a teenage dad, work as well as weekly classes and homework.

Meanwhile, 17-year-old Christine Ng joins a six-month vocational training programme with YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) to learn skills and finds her passion. She decides to start a freelancing business in digital marketing and content creation but faces challenges in finding new customers. After months of waiting, 18-year-old Nurul Afiqah Anati Isa finally meets her new tutor. She then returns to the Singapore Girls’ Home, where she once stayed, for an emotional reunion with a mentor who always believed in her.

[Post 1128] How Forever 21 Plummeted From $4B in Sales to Twice Bankrupt | WSJ What Went Wrong

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Forever 21 was once the premier shopping destination for teens who wanted cheap and fashionable clothing. But now, the fast fashion pioneer is filing for its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After being bought out by licensing firm Authentic Brands Group and real-estate companies Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners, Forever 21 struggled against Asian e-commerce powerhouses like Shein and Temu.

WSJ breaks down how its own market toppled the fast fashion giant.

[Post 1127] Intel Burned $16B Last Year. Can Its New CEO Save the Company? | WSJ

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Intel is facing tough times after its stock plunged 60% in 2024 and it ousted its CEO Pat Gelsinger. Lip-Bu Tan has been tapped as new CEO for the semiconductor company as it has struggled with both chip manufacturing and chip designing. Unlike Intel, companies specialized in either designing chips–like AMD or Nvidia–or manufacturing chips–like TSMC. 

WSJ explains how a mistake Intel made in the mid 2000s has snowballed into an overwhelming obstacle for the tech company that Lip-Bu Tan will have to face. 

[Post 1126] How to choose fresh fish in Singapore’s wet markets

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Elliot and Kenny are not your average supermarket shoppers. They’re the founders of Pasarfish, an educational outreach initiative doing research and running wet market tours to encourage people to shop more at wet markets and how to do so best.

[Post 1125] [ENG SUB] Why I quit my job at 40 and went into coding

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"My salary was five figures before, but now it's halved. However, I believe I can slowly climb up from the grassroots and eventually reach my previous salary level."

After obtaining a master's degree in the UK, Fu Zixiang has been working in the advertising industry for 12 years. Although he had no digital professional background before, at the age of 41, he resolutely bid farewell to his comfort zone and devoted himself to the field of science and technology education.

[Post 1124] 12,000 BTO flats with wait times of under three years to be launched from 2025 to 2027

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About 12,000 new flats with shorter waiting times of under three years will be launched from 2025 to 2027. That's more than the total number of such flats launched over the past five years. National Development Minister Desmond Lee announced this during an engagement session with students. The Deferred Income Assessment scheme will also be expanded to young couples where one party is a full-time student or National Serviceman. They can have their incomes assessed closer to key collection, instead of at application, which means they can get a higher loan amount. Claudia Lim reports.