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Everynight just about midnight, thousands of Filipinos scavenge municipal and various thrash collection sites to pick chicken pieces left over by diners. They literally pick from garbage bins and bags. The sources are food courts and restaurants, particularly fast food chains like Jollybee, McDonalds, KFC etc. These pickers... 

I read with concerns about the Straits Times Editorial, “Road safety is everybody’s job” (Sep 25). It is alarming and heart-wrenching to notice that traffic accidents claimed the lives of 71 people in Singapore in the first half of 2023, a 57.8 per cent jump from the 45 killed in the same period in 2022. Among the fatalities,... 

I would condemn the indiscriminate killings of civilians by Hamas but I would also condemn Israelis occupation, illegal land grabs and constant harassment of Palestinians in their homeland. PAP Gov condemned Russia invasion of Ukraine while ignoring the racial discrimination and persecution of Ukrainians of Russian descend,...