Jan is ready for a new challenge. She's recently moved to Colorado and wants to take advantage of the new terrain and start mountain running. Before the move, she'd been working on her fitness for ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about shoshin lately, the Japanese word for “beginner’s mind.” I first wrote about it here, after learning the word from a guest on my podcast Fifty Words for Snow. My co-host ...

More than an exercise in renewal, it must be about giving people a choice and the voice to help shape the future of their own estates. In the next few decades, a growing number of HDB flats will edge ...

Nearly half of Singapore’s HDB flats are already more than 45 years old. In towns such as Marine Parade, Toa Payoh and Bukit Merah, whole clusters are in the second half of their 99-year leases. Flat ...

I REFER to the article, “Keep Vers for HDB flats simple and fair” (Aug 26). We need to think of the elderly, such as those who are now age 70 will reach 75 in 2030 when the Voluntary Early ...

[SINGAPORE] There is ample time to develop the framework for the voluntary early redevelopment scheme (Vers), as the scheme – which has yet to be rolled out – will be implemented only from the first ...

For years, if you owned an older HDB flat, there might have been a little voice in the back of your mind wondering, "Could I be next for SERS?" The Selective En-bloc Redevelopment Scheme was a good ...

The clock is ticking on the leases for older Housing Board flats, and an answer on what the Government plans to do about lease decay dropped earlier this week. National Development Minister Chee Hong ...

The government currently has no further plans for the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme - or SERS - and will instead focus on shaping the Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme - or VERS. National ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore aims to work out details of the Voluntary Early Redevelopment Scheme (VERS) for public housing - such as how to identify potential sites, ensure enough homes are ready in time, ...

THE SECRET TO building muscle has always been about the reps. But that doesn’t mean what you think. We’re often taught that eight to 10-rep sets are the key to unlocking hypertrophy, the increase in ...