When it comes to donating money for a good cause, fewer Singaporeans are opening up their wallets. In the most recent National Giving Study, the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre reported that giving had decreased between 2018 and 2023. While eight in 10 Singapore residents reported making donations in 2018,
Come Sept 18, we will most likely see the first cut in the US Federal Reserve’s Fed funds rate since the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. Starting in March 2022, the Fed raised its benchmark Fed funds rate 11 times, from near zero to 5.33 per cent.
It’s official. Parenting is difficult. So much so that US Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy has issued an advisory about the stress and mental health issues parenting creates. Parenting joins social media for children, healthcare worker burnout and firearm violence as issues the US Department of Health and Human Services felt it needed to formally address.
When celebrities go public with their diagnoses of cancer or other diseases, they are often lauded as courageous for raising awareness and making people who share their diagnosis feel less alone. Other times, they are chastised in the media for setting a bad example.
Even by the Middle Eastern standards, the past year has been full of surprises. A bolt-from-the-blue attack by Hamas produced the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The resulting