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Miss Eileen Ho and her boyfriend, Mr Daniel Soo, both 24, have been walking around the Changi airport with their belongings in a suitcase for the past 7 months. At night, they sleep on thin comforters in a corner of Terminal 3, near Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe. It was reported that they had moved into the airport after Ms Ho had falling out with her parents, after which she also took her brother who suffers from epilepsy, 20 year-old Wilson, along with her to the airport. She said that "we have no other place to go, that is why we stay like this," and the couple chose the airport for the free internet, free electricity and free water. When asked what they do each day, Ms Ho answered with a shrug: "Eat, smoke, charge phone."

We received this letter from a reader who is struggling with the high costs of living in Singapore. Being an elderly cleaner with a salary of $1000 a month, our reader has had to support her jobless husband, her son who contributes nothing to household income, and her pregnant daughter, her husband who was medically certified unfit to work, and her 2 year old daughter.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF), the police have responded to a case of assault at one of the MSF's Social Service Offices (SSO) after a member of public assaulted a MSF officer while she was interviewing him to understand his financial situation.

Joke on how effective you are, msf. Ministry of Social and Family? Then what are you doing to break up our small family. I just wanted my Girlfriend to be back with me, and you just snatch her away from me. Not answering any calls from us, even my girlfriend's Mother. Even my girlfriend's Mother cant contact till my Girlfriend. Can't even get to know where she is until the fourth day.

In an interview yesterday with Minister for Social and Family Development Tan Chuan Jin, the minister revealed that the government is reviewing its policies towards unwed mothers and may extend benefits given to married mothers to this marginalized group.

The Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) has announced that it is "looking into" a case of domestic abuse after a video of the incident went viral yesterday night. The Facebook clip, which was uploaded on A.S.S. at 9PM yesterday, showed the elderly woman sweeping the corridor outside a HDB flat at Lower Delta Road under the watchful gaze of two other women. Near the end of the video, one of the women - apparently the elderly woman's daughter - is seen delivering a hard slap to the left side of the elderly woman's face.

I was heartened and impressed by your sincerity when I read your Facebook post about cardboard collectors. When you described the elderly folk who collected cardboard sheets - not because they are poor - but because they wanted to exercise and keep themselves occupied, I immediately thought of my auntie. You see, my 70 year-old auntie collects cardboards with a cart to help the recycling effort, she doesn't mind if the waste company doesn't pay her for her effort, she is middle class with an environmental mission.

Elderly cardboard collectors are not "poor" or in poverty - or at least that's what Minister for Social and Family Development (MSF) Tan Chuan Jin would have you believe. In a Facebook post yesterday, Tan said that he had received a report from ministry volunteers who had gone out to interview the elderly cardboard collectors in the Jalan Besar area in a bid to understand what motivates them. What they found "surprised" him and his volunteers.

A man who allegedly caused serious head injuries to a 1 year-old boy by pushing him off a bed is out on bail today. The court had, during the previous hearing some weeks ago, ordered a S$10,000 cash bail, with a S$10,000 non-cash bail. Franklie Tan Guang Wei, 24, walked in from the public gallery and took his place in the dock when his case was called on Thursday.

Tan Tee Wee, 48, married in Singapore in 1998, then again in New Zealand in 2010. The bigamist was sentenced to two months jail by a Singapore court on Wednesday. We take a look at the laws against bigamy in Singapore, the definitions and some recent cases.