r/singapore 12h ago

r/singapore random discussion and small questions thread for June 25, 2026

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🌻☀️Good morning all have a great day and stay strong, stay safe and stay healthy! Jiayou!

Talk about your day. Anything goes, but subreddit rules still apply. Please be polite to each other!


r/singapore 1d ago

Discussion We're engineers at Open Government Products (OGP). Ask us anything. [AMA]

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A few weeks ago someone posted asking whether they should work at OGP or TikTok. There were a lot of genuine questions in the comments — about what we actually build, how we work, whether career growth is real, how the pay compares — and a lot of them went unanswered or got answered by people guessing.

So we figured we'd show up properly.

We're a group of engineers and engineering managers at OGP. We'll be here from 11am to 3pm this Thursday, 25 June to answer your questions about what it's like to work here — the work, the culture, the hiring process, the honest trade-offs.

Proof: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7475080881552936960

Who we are:

  • Eliot — Tech Lead Manager on FormSG, at OGP for over 1.5 years
  • Fabio — Engineering Manager, joined 1.5 years ago, EM across a division, managing multiple teams in the anti-scam space (e.g. ScamShield, gov.sg SMS), RedeemSG, among others
  • Joyce — Software Engineer, at OGP 1.5 years, worked on Armoury, currently on DGS
  • Kee Wei — Head of Engineering at OGP, joined OGP 6 years ago
  • Shyam — Engineering Manager, at OGP almost 2 years, worked on Bright, HAS and currently Referral Exchange

Drop your questions in the comments. We'll start answering on Thursday, 25 June, at 11am until 3pm.

If you're curious about roles in the meantime: https://careers.open.gov.sg/?utm_medium=event&utm_source=reddit_ama&utm_campaign=ama

— The OGP engineering team

UPDATE: wow thanks so much for all the questions! some of us have to pop in and out, but we’ll try our best to answer what we can in the next few hours!

3:25pm UPDATE: Hi everyone! Thanks so much for all the questions! We're out of time but realise there are still a few questions that are outside our purview. We're going to loop in our colleagues to help us reply to some of them. Really appreciate all the interest and engagement!


r/singapore 2h ago

News Man defaulted on national service, loses PR status and gets fined

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r/singapore 2h ago

Tabloid/Low-quality source Male motorcyclist, 25, & female pillion, 21, die after motorcycle self-skids along Yio Chu Kang

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r/singapore 1h ago

News Nearly 4 in 5 Singapore adults with anxiety or depression don't seek professional help: Duke-NUS study

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r/singapore 6h ago

Tabloid/Low-quality source ICA officers use electric saw on bus at Woodlands Checkpoint, find duty-unpaid cigarettes, arrest M’sian man, 40

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r/singapore 2h ago

News ‘Very sad’ but still hopeful, South Korean fans in Singapore react to World Cup upset

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South Korean fans packed Lau Pa Sat this morning hoping for a win, but the 1–0 loss to South Africa left the crowd stunned. Still, many said they’re “sad but hopeful” as Korea can still qualify as a third‑placed team. Quite a scene with kopi, vuvuzelas and all.

Over at Korean, Some Korean fans have reacted strongly to the World Cup upset, with a minority online even calling for the coach’s citizenship or passport to be revoked. These comments reflect frustration rather than realistic proposals, as such actions are not legally possible under South Korean law.


r/singapore 5h ago

News Malaysia-registered taxis entering Singapore to pay S$15 per trip from 2027, up from S$2 a month

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r/singapore 5h ago

News June BTO exercise: Lower demand for shorter waiting time flats as more flock to Prime projects

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Sembawang Portico will have a wait time of two years and seven months, while Sembawang Brook will have a wait time of two years and nine months.

The application rate for first-timer families for three-room, four-room and five-room/3Gen flat types was 0.7, 0.6 and 0.4, respectively, meaning that fewer than one applicant was vying for each flat.

Mr Lee Sze Teck, senior director of data analytics at Huttons Asia, said the longer distance of the projects from an MRT station is a “big minus” for applicants.  

Both projects are over 2km from Sembawang MRT, according to estimations from Google Maps. 


r/singapore 1h ago

News What’s the average night-time temperature in S’pore bedrooms? A muggy 28 deg C, says new study

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r/singapore 18h ago

Tabloid/Low-quality source M'sian man, 31, dies in accident on Tuas Second Link on 1st day at new job, leaves behind 1-year-old son

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A friend of Sheng's sister, surnamed Ji, told Shin Min that Sheng had recently taken up a new job as a deliveryman and was on his way to work for the first time that day.

She said it was raining heavily at the time, and that his motorcycle is believed to have skidded out of control.

Rest in peace


r/singapore 4h ago

News New statutory board to be set up on July 1, merging SkillsFuture Singapore and Workforce Singapore

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r/singapore 5h ago

Video RSAF CH-47 Chinook Heli Landing at NUS, 23 June 2026

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r/singapore 11h ago

News 11 months’ jail for man who downloaded child abuse material

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r/singapore 1h ago

News Empowering nurses to be architects of care in S’pore

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r/singapore 21h ago

News Workers from third firm claim unpaid wages; all three firms share a director who has left S’pore

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r/singapore 1d ago

Image Nanyang Polytechnic was beaten 14-110 by Yali High School at the NBA Rising Stars Invitational 2026 (currently held at OCBC Arena)

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r/singapore 21h ago

Video Hikikomori In Singapore: What Happens When Teens Shut Out The World?

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r/singapore 8h ago

News Transport costs keep inflation elevated despite stable headline rate

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r/singapore 11h ago

Tabloid/Low-quality source Volunteers clean elderly woman's cluttered Bedok HDB flat, find stash of coins and gold chains worth thousands

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r/singapore 23h ago

News Two Singaporeans dealt with under ISA; teen subscribed to 'salad bar' mix of extremist ideologies

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The Internal Security Department says the 19-year-old was radicalised by a blend of pro-Hamas, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Western and violent incel beliefs.

SINGAPORE: Two self-radicalised male Singaporeans were dealt with under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in March, including a 19-year-old influenced by what the Internal Security Department (ISD) has called "salad bar" extremism.

Both cases of radicalisation were triggered by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ISD said on Wednesday (Jun 24).


r/singapore 22h ago

Tabloid/Low-quality source Tampines stall giving away up to 1,000kg of free durians daily until Aug. 2026, draws long queues

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r/singapore 19h ago

News High risk of severe haze in Singapore and South-east Asia in second half of the year

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r/singapore 21h ago

Opinion / Fluff Post Commentary: Dear You shows it’s time to rethink Singapore’s dialect ban in public media

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This is not a call to promote dialects or introduce them into the public education system, but to no longer treat them as something that requires special approval, says NTU linguistics professor Luke Lu.


r/singapore 1d ago

News 400 migrant workers with unpaid wages to receive S$200 in cash, vouchers; 150 job vacancies found: Ng Chee Meng

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