Singapore's humidity swings thirty points a day without the water changing
Relative humidity is a ratio whose denominator moves with temperature, so 70% at 31°C holds two and a half times the wat...
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A Singapore credit report can come back with no score at all
Credit Bureau Singapore grades borrowers AA to HH — but five other grades carry no score, and two of them are adverse fi...
Singapore's cooling-off period covers almost nothing you buy
The five-day cancellation right reaches four kinds of contract — chiefly a sale made during an uninvited visit to your h...
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Singapore's Small Claims Tribunals shut two years before your claim expires
The tribunals lose jurisdiction two years after the cause of action accrued, while a contract claim lives for six under...
Singapore's Safety Mark covers 33 kinds of product, and power banks are not one
The SAFETY Mark is required only on 33 categories of Controlled Goods. Power banks are not among them and are never issu...
A low-sugar drink can still get a Nutri-Grade D
Singapore's Nutri-Grade letter grades drinks on sugar and saturated fat, and the worse of the two sets the grade — so a...
Singapore's core inflation leaves out a third of the price index
MAS Core Inflation drops accommodation and private transport, which together carry 35.6% of the 2024-based CPI. Most of...
Singapore's data protection law does not cover the government
The PDPA's data protection obligations do not bind ministries, departments or gazetted statutory boards, so the right to...
Singapore's Employment Act has no overtime pay cap
The Ministry of Manpower publishes an overtime cap of S$2,600, or S$13.60 an hour. The Employment Act's Fourth Schedule...
Singapore's S$400 import limit is measured three different ways
A S$390 pair of trainers with S$35 shipping sits under Singapore's S$400 import threshold on one test and over it on ano...
Best before and use by are the same date in Singapore
Most shoppers read one as a quality suggestion and the other as a safety deadline. Singapore's Food Regulations say in o...
One Singapore quarter, two official growth rates, four times apart
In August 2020 the economy had shrunk 41.2% in the second quarter; in October the same quarter was a 13.2% contraction....
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