Becoming Singaporean: From young boy growing up in rural Chinese town to raising a family in Singapore, Lifestyle News
04 Aug
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Becoming Singaporean: From young boy growing up in rural Chinese town to raising a family in Singapore, Lifestyle News

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Lifestyle At the age of 13, Bao Shang Ze, better known as Bunz, could barely form a sentence in English.Growing up in Wenzhou, a city in China's Zhejiang province, this wasn't an issue.However, his lack of proficiency in English would prove to be a problem after his father dropped the unexpected news that the family would be migrating to Singapore.This was in the year 2000.His dad was already working as a software engineer in Singapore and decided to bring Bunz and his mum over to live here permanently."It came as a shock. We didn't even have an idea of where Singapore was!" Bunz told AsiaOne in an interview.Conversing in English comes naturally to him now but as a teenager, he recounted feeling fear and anxiousness at the thought of relocating to a new country and being exposed to a different culture."I had to leave my...
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From Spain to Singapore: This dental technician shares why the little red dot is ‘the only place’ he feels at home, Lifestyle News
04 Aug
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From Spain to Singapore: This dental technician shares why the little red dot is ‘the only place’ he feels at home, Lifestyle News

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Lifestyle On Aug 9 every year, Demetrio Leonidas Stanescu Motatu and his wife, Sarah Lim, would gather with their family to watch the National Day Parade.They even got lucky once and managed to snag tickets to watch the parade live in 2016.This year will be no different, and the family plans to head over to Leonidas' sister-in-law's place to celebrate.Despite not being from Singapore, the 50-year-old Caucasian, who was born in Germany and is a Singapore Permanent Resident, looks forward to the festivities.And now, he calls Singapore home.Lifestyle Falling in love with a SingaporeanLeonidas, who is a dental technician and actor, met Sarah online while he was still living in Spain.Sarah, a Singaporean, flew to Spain for three weeks to meet Leonidas for the first time in January 2008.They continued their long-distance relationship before Leonidas popped the question six months...
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Feeling down at work? Singapore tops list of unhappiest employees among Southeast Asian countries, survey finds, Lifestyle News
04 Aug
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Feeling down at work? Singapore tops list of unhappiest employees among Southeast Asian countries, survey finds, Lifestyle News

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Lifestyle PUBLISHED ONAugust 03, 2024 12:43 AMByAmirul RashidDo you consider yourself a happy employee?If not, it seems there are a number of Singaporean workers who are also singing the same tune.According to a survey conducted by recruitment site Jobstreet and Jobsdb by Seek, Singapore ranks the highest when it comes to how unhappy employees are at work (19 per cent).The study was conducted in May 2024 and reached out to more than 5,000 participants across Southeast Asia.Regional neighbours Malaysia (12 per cent) and the Philippines (11 per cent) take second and third spot, respectively, when it comes to unhappiness at work.Indonesia, however, sits at the other end of the spectrum with only four per cent claiming to be unhappy employees.Roughly half (53 per cent) of Singaporean participants mentioned inadequate salary and benefits to be the cause of their unhappiness...
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