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Cheong Poh Kwan

Assistant Business Editor

Poh Kwan is assistant business editor at The Straits Times, where her team covers jobs, workplace culture, manpower issues and personal finance. She began her career in 2008 as a video journalist covering Singapore news, before transitioning to foreign news. She used to be a policy analyst and journalism lecturer, teaching data storytelling while studying data science. She finds joy in the company of books, music, podcasts, nature and good people.

Latest articles

The Megaspeed mystery: Who’s the Singaporean behind firm at centre of Nvidia chips probe?

Megaspeed is under widening probe over possible breaches of export laws involving advanced Nvidia AI chips.

Megaspeed, Singapore firm at centre of US chip probe, goes dark

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MegaSpeed.Ai at Ocean Financial Centre, pictured on Oct 10, 2025. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

Singapore’s competition watchdog issues new guide to curb misleading marketing claims

The release of the guide follows a series of cases where businesses, including nail care salon chain Nail Palace, were found to have made false or misleading claims.

askST Jobs: How to stand out but not show off when sharing about career highs on social media

The key is to avoid common missteps, such as making every post “all about me” and posting too often without a clear message.

Singapore Mint launches investment-grade Lion Bullion bars as gold prices climb to new high

The Lion Bullion gold bars are available in sizes ranging from 1g to 1kg.

Which jobs pay the highest median salaries in Singapore?

A flying instructor teaching a student in an A320 flight simulator at WingsAcademy.sg.

Interactive: Singapore Salary Guide 2025

7 in 10 employers satisfied with their migrant workers: MOM survey

Migrant workers also reported record-high satisfaction with their working and living conditions here.

More seniors remain employed after retirement and re-employment ages raised in 2022: MOM study

The MOM study found that raising retirement and re-employment age works because the policy provides legislative protection and sets the social norms of retirement for senior workers.

S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs at open on September rate cut hopes

Equity markets are swept up in a risk-on rally as modest US inflation data has tempered fears over tariffs' impact.