As a long-time observer of the Singapore community, Blackbox has collected and distilled much contemporary data that helps elucidate Singaporean sentiment as the city-state embarks on what promises to be...

Stable Community Sentiment But Economic Pressures Persist As Singapore stands at a crossroads of economic challenges and evolving aspirations, we are proud to launch SensingSG, a unique community insights and sentiment platform...

With this year’s announcement on Valentine's Day and the ongoing Committee of Supply debates thereon, Budget 2023 can be characterised as an attempt by the Singapore Government to address the...

Photo source: ILO Asia Pacific Phrases like the ‘New Normal’ and ‘The Big Reset’ continue to be casually thrown around, but where are we in terms of actual recovery? While...

The effects of inflation are long drawn as we come to the end of 2022. The causes are clear. Governments the world over attempted to soften the blow when Covid-19...

Taxation policy is one of the most difficult policies to formulate and implement. Indeed, taxation has profound effects on governments and citizens. Liz Truss recently resigned as Prime Minister of...

As two of the Four Asian Tigers, Singapore and Hong Kong have been discussed in the economic circles in one breath. While the South Korean and Taiwanese economies built up...

The second quarter of 2022 was not a financially successful quarter for Google. The software giant reportedly witnessed a 13% lesser growth in Q2 2022 compared to Q2 2021. One...

Consumer trends may come and go, but rising inflation makes all such predictions go awry, as the tried-and-tested behaviour of saving takes precedence over spending during uncertain times. However, the...