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Is this trending app revealing how lonely we are?

[SINGAPORE] The question “Are you dead?” popped up on my screen the other week – not as a text from a friend I’d unintentionally ignored, but as a headline.

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The big questions for 2026

[SINGAPORE] Last year wasn’t the easiest for fresh graduates entering the workforce.

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Thrive’s top newsletter picks of 2025

[SINGAPORE] Tariffs were back in the headlines in 2025, with trade tensions flaring on and off, causing real effects for Singapore’s open economy. Artificial intelligence (AI) was everywhere – talked ...

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Love later, save now? Why so many Gen Zs aren’t rushing to get married

[SINGAPORE] When I was a kid, I thought I’d be married by 25 and start a family at 27. Today, that seems like an absurd timeline. 

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Getting over the ick of self-promo on LinkedIn (Gen Z edition)

[SINGAPORE] In the past two-and-a-half years I’ve been at thrive, I’ve posted on LinkedIn a grand total of… one time. 

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Post-graduation grief is real. Here’s why it hits so hard

[SINGAPORE] Last Monday, I turned the tassel and, with a degree in hand, I waved goodbye to my academic life.

The coffee clubbing events are usually held in cafes and other spaces such as rooftop bars – as long as there’s room for DJs and baristas to do their thing while people dance.

Sober clubbing brews fresh beat for Singapore’s Gen Z

[SINGAPORE] Swaying to dance music and TikTok-fuelled pop under a disco ball, young punters are packed shoulder to shoulder while sipping on coffee, their energy powered by pour-overs rather than pint...

Known colloquially as digicams, digital compact cameras were all the rage in the 2000s, but fell out of favour when smartphones overtook them a decade or so later.

Gen Zs ride nostalgia wave to bring vintage digicams back in style

Young sellers of old compact cameras are setting up online and physical stores

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💭 A young voter’s reflections on GE2025

[SINGAPORE] Before candidate Alexis Dang could utter a single word at a Workers’ Party (WP) rally, shouts of “chio bu” (A crude Hokkien phrase meaning attractive woman) could be heard.

Voters casting their ballots at the polling station at Waterway Primary School on September 1, 2023.

🗳️ Ready for GE2025 – A first-time voter’s guide

[SINGAPORE] Some 2.6 million Singaporeans will be voting in the upcoming General Election. Polls open from 8 am to 8 pm.

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