Varun Karthik

SINGAPORE - Knowledge Book Centre, which has been operating at Bras Basah Complex since it was set up in 1981, is set to close down, hurt by rental expenses and declining business.

It will be moving out after the landlord finds a tenant to take over the 1,200 sq ft space - about the size of a five-room HDB flat - on the third floor.

SINGAPORE - Who says you cannot raise five young children while doing gig work?

Mr Ahmad Nidzam Abdul Razak, 34, and Madam Nur Aisyah Sukor, 33, have managed to do just that, while working full time as food delivery riders.

SINGAPORE - Until three years ago, Ms Nur Aini had never set foot in a swimming pool.

Today, the 40-year-old is a familiar face at Clementi Swimming Complex on Sunday evenings where she conducts free swimming lessons for other Indonesian foreign domestic workers.

SINGAPORE - Mr Aravinth Kumarasamy and five other members of the Apsaras Arts Dance Company from Singapore were midway through their tour of Sri Lanka when its government imposed a three-day curfew on April 2.

It was one of many measures imposed in the country, which is struggling to deal with its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.

SINGAPORE - For the past two years, Mr Fakarudin Jaffri, a technician in the construction industry, had to be extra careful not to wake his roommate when he returned late from work to the rented common room in a flat in Ang Mo Kio.

But on April 20, the 35-year-old Malaysian felt right at home because he was finally back in his own two-room condominium in Johor Bahru that he shares with his wife.