May 2026

Planning a home renovation this year? Whether you're rewiring an older flat, adding new circuits for a home office, or simply upgrading your fittings, there's one element that often gets overlooked in the excitement of choosing tiles and paint colours: your electrical conduits. These unassuming tubes that house your wiring are a quiet but critical part of your home's safety system, and choosing the right ones can make all the difference in the event of a fire. The numbers make for sobering reading. According to the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), electrical-origin fires increased slightly to 304 cases in 2025, accounting...

Singapore has never shied away from a big challenge. A city-state with limited land, a tropical climate, and almost no agricultural heritage to speak of, it has consistently found creative ways to punch well above its weight. Food security is the latest frontier, and the stakes could not be higher. Today, Singapore imports more than 90 per cent of its food, making it highly vulnerable to global and regional disruptions in food supply and demand. That is exactly why the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) introduced the "30 by 30" goal – an ambition for locally produced food to meet 30% of...