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📰 Everyone has Spotify. So why are Singapore’s record stores packed? Nostalgia is fuelling Singapore’s vinyl boom & record stores are reaping the rewards When people think of vinyl records today, they often think of a niche hobby making a comeback. But Singapore’s relationship with vinyl runs much deeper. Long before collectors were flipping through crates in neighbourhood record stores, Singapore was one… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/912230/singapores-vinyl-boom/

📰 Buying A New Home? Tropicana Live+ Gives You A Chance To Slash Your Costs In Half [This is a sponsored article written in collaboration with Tropicana Corporation Berhad.] There was a time when buying a home was simply about finding the right location, enough space, and a practical layout. Today, expectations around homeownership have evolved. Today’s home buyers want more than just a place to live. They’re looking… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/912194/tropicana-live-buy-new-home-property-savings-malaysia-details/

📰 Most pandemic home bakeries fade away, but Tiap Tiap just opened a S$500K store Peranakan heritage food biz Tiap Tiap began selling on a Facebook group, now it’s a full-fledged shopfront Most food businesses start with a business plan. Peranakan heritage food brand Tiap Tiap started with a pandan cake and friends who wouldn’t stop asking Sophia Yeow to cook for them. Six years on, what… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/912146/tiap-tiap-peranakan-food-singapore/

📰 Who knew S’pore makes Greek yoghurt? This biz produces 4,000kg/mth & supplies luxury hotels ⁠⁠This couple couldn’t find good Greek yoghurt in S’pore, so they built a factory from scratch Most yoghurt consumed in Singapore has travelled thousands of kilometres before it reaches the fridge. It typically starts at a dairy farm in Europe, Australia, or the United States, before being processed, packaged, shipped across oceans, and stocked… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/912039/annies-all-natural-yoghurt-singapore/

📰 WhyQ spent a decade pivoting. It might have finally found the model that works. “The more we scaled, the more we burned” It’s been a long road for WhyQ. In 2016, the company was built around a straightforward idea: make hawker food more accessible to busy office workers in the CBD. After years of pivots, a pandemic-era detour into residential deliveries, and the… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/912034/whyq-corporate-dining/

📰 Singapore is one of the richest countries in the world. So why are 9 in 10 workers checked out? Worker engagement in Singapore has stagnated since 2019 Ever taken public transport during the weekday morning rush? Packed buses and trains. Corporate uniforms. Eyes glued to phones or staring blankly ahead. Lanyards around necks, coffee in hand, everyone hurrying somewhere that seems incredibly important. However, according to a new report released last week, most… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/912012/singapore-nine-in-ten-worker-disengaged/

📰 ⁠This 52 Y/O kopi business roasts 1,000kg of coffee every month & is winning over younger drinkers Most family bizs don’t last this long, but Yong Seng Coffee is still roasting after 5 decades For more than five decades, Yong Seng Coffee has been a fixture at Tiong Bahru Market. It has weathered the rise of instant coffee, the café boom that’s transformed the neighbourhood in the 2010s, and,… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911943/yong-seng-coffee/

📰 Temasek and GIC could earn over 100% on their stake in Anthropic. Why did they bet on Claude? Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Singapore’s investment companies are riding the AI wave, hoping to capitalise on the boom in the industry. Just slightly over three weeks ago, both Temasek and GIC raised their investment in one of the most promising foundational AI companies, Anthropic, the… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911732/temasek-gic-anthropic/

📰 Katong is one of Singapore’s coolest streets—so why are so many shop units sitting empty? The neighbourhood’s heritage charm hasn’t saved it from a growing vacancy problem Walk down East Coast Road on a weekday afternoon, and you might notice something that doesn’t quite fit the postcard image of Katong: shuttered shopfronts, darkened interiors, and “For Rent” signs that have clearly been hanging there a while. Katong is the… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911784/katong-empty-shop-units/

📰 Why are so many million-dollar HDBs hitting the market? Because the system works as designed. Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. The headlines will tell you that Singapore’s property market is finally cooling down. In early 2026, the HDB resale price index dipped by 0.1%, signalling a long-awaited breather for exhausted homebuyers. But don’t pop the champagne just yet.… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911740/million-dollar-hdb-rise-in-singapore/

📰 Degree holders and older workers hit hardest as Singapore retrenchments rise in Q1: MOM At the same time, Singapore also saw a decline in job vacancies Singapore’s job market weakened in Q1 2026 as vacancies fell and retrenchments hit their highest level since Q3 2023. Retrenchments rose to 3,830 in Q1 2026, up from 3,690 in Q4 2025, according to the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM) finalised… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911807/more-retrenchments-in-singapore-q1-2026/

📰 Fewer than 2 in 5 S’pore employers plan to hire in the next 3 months. Here’s who’s still recruiting. The city-state’s hiring outlook has fallen to a five-year low Singapore employers are turning more cautious on hiring for the third quarter of 2026. According to ManpowerGroup’s latest Employment Outlook Survey, only 35% of employers in Singapore plan to increase headcount between Jul and Sept. Meanwhile, 41% expect no change to staffing levels, while… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911768/singapore-hiring-outlook-five-year-low/

📰 AI is quietly bankrupting your cloud budget. Here’s what savvy businesses are doing instead. [This is a sponsored article with Synology.] The cloud was supposed to eliminate infrastructure headaches. Instead, some businesses are discovering a new one: invoices they no longer understand. Storage fees, data retrieval charges, and backup costs are quietly pushing cloud spending higher than many organisations anticipated—and artificial intelligence (AI) is about to… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911719/synology-business-data-management/

📰 AI salaries in S’pore rose 5x faster than overall wages, with fresh grads landing S$90K AI jobs Salaries for AI roles in Singapore have climbed 15-25% in the last 12 months Artificial intelligence builders are winning even as AI is used to justify cutting jobs in big tech and global banks. In Singapore, salaries for workers developing these systems are climbing up to five times faster than average wages. The pay… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911685/singapore-ai-salaries/

📰 Shopee lays off staff globally, S’pore cuts reportedly hit product & engineering teams The cuts reportedly affect around 8% of Shopee’s developer workforce worldwide Shopee has begun laying off hundreds of developers globally, including employees in Singapore, as the e-commerce giant restructures its workforce amid a broader industry push towards artificial intelligence (AI). The job cuts, which began this week, will affect approximately 8% of Shopee’s developer… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911697/shopee-layoffs-singapore-2026/

📰 Jack’s Place has lasted 60 yrs, but it doesn’t want to be a biz people “only remember from the past” “Nostalgia becomes dangerous if it prevents a business from improving,” says 3rd-gen director Alvin Say There are restaurants you eat at, and restaurants you grow up in. Jack’s Place, for many Singaporeans, is firmly the latter. Most Singaporeans would recognise its green-and-white checkered tablecloths anywhere. You might even remember the sizzle… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911636/jacks-place-singapore-60-years/

📰 These 3 young S’pore hawkers put cheese in a curry puff. They made S$500K in their 1st year. What The Puff produces up to 1,500 puffs a day Singapore’s hawker scene is not short of curry puff stalls. But when Lim Yuan Ming, 24, and his older brother Brandon, 29, decided to start one, they weren’t trying to out-tradition the traditionalists—they wanted to give the curry puff a modern twist. Growing up… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911573/what-the-puff-singapore/

📰 Singapore workers’ real wages grew by 4% in 2025 as inflation cooled: MOM Fewer firms gave salary increases amid geopolitical uncertainty and easing inflation Nominal wages of full-time resident employees grew by 4.9% at a slower pace in 2025 than 2024’s 5.6%, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) reported on Thursday. This comes amid Singapore’s overall inflation dropping sharply from 2.8% in 2024 to 0.7% in… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911560/singapore-workers-wages-grew-2025-as-inflation-cooled/

📰 S’pore beats forecasts, grows by 6% in Q1 — but Singaporeans might not feel it. Here’s why. Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Singapore’s economy continues its somewhat surprising rally, having grown by a whopping 6% in the first quarter of 2026, following a very strong 2025, when it expanded by 5% across the entire year (even though expectations following Trump tariffs were… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911544/spore-beats-forecasts-q1-2026/

📰 This S’pore couple started in a home studio. Now, Rihanna & Florence Pugh wear their jewellery. Homegrown jewellery brand State Property is now sold beside luxury giants worldwide Singapore is not short of jewellery stores. From the gleaming counters of Cartier and Tiffany at Ion Orchard to the indie labels that have quietly multiplied over the past decade, the options are vast. But in 2015, when Afzal Imram and his… ➡️ Read More: https://vulcanpost.com/911466/state-property-jewellery/