RUNNING the air-conditioner to beat the heat over the next three months will cost $1.50 to $15.20 more a month.

Electricity prices here will go up by about 7 per cent from Wednesday, on the back of increasing fuel oil prices, said utilities services provider SP Services on Friday. From next month, three-room households will pay about $4 more a month in power bills, and five-room households, about $6 more.

FOR Bedok resident Gabriel Sim, the town council is just another government agency that he has to pay fees to every month.

EIGHT Cambodian children in traditional Khmer costumes nervously position themselves in the spacious, resort-style living room of a two-storey bungalow in Changi.