The proportion of Singapore residents working or actively looking for jobs has declined for the fourth consecutive year due to an ageing population, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Friday (Nov 28). Singapore's labour force participation rate, which accounts for residents aged 15 and above, fell to 67.9 per cent in 2025, said the ministry in its annual Labour Force in Singapore Advance Release. The labour force participation rate has been declining since it peaked at 70.5 per cent in 2021. It fell to 70 per cent in 2022, 68.6 per cent in 2023 and 68.2 per cent in 2024. MOM attributed the overall decline to Singapore's ageing population. More seniors still workingSingapore's labour force participation rate will continue declining «until we come to a stage where our population ageing stabilises,» said Ang Boon Heng, director of MOM's manpower research and statistics department. «What's balancing all of this that we're not seeing a big decline (in labour force participation rate), is that it reflects the efforts to actually bring people back to the labour force,» he added.
A man was rescued by Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and taken to hospital after he got his entire left arm stuck in a kitchen drain pipe in a Jurong West HDB flat.The incident occurred at about 1.35pm on Thursday (Nov 27) at Block 338A Tah Ching Road, said SCDF in a Facebook post.Firefighters from Jurong Fire Station and rescuers from the SCDF's elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team who attended to the case found the man lying conscious below the kitchen sink, with his arm trapped in the drain pipe.To create sufficient space for the rescue operation, a team of first responders removed the kitchen sink and dismantled the cabinet containing the pipe.Another team proceeded to the unit directly below and cut a segment of the pipe to allow rescuers to see the trapped arm and decide how to carefully manoeuvre the limb to free it.About two hours after SCDF arrived at the flat, the man's arm was eased out of the drain pipe with the help of a lubricant.
A 78-year-old woman was killed in a car accident in Jurong West on Thursday (Nov 27) morning.In response to AsiaOne's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force said it was alerted to an accident along Jurong West Street 92 at 8.30am and one person was subsequently taken to National University Hospital.The police said in response to queries that the elderly female pedestrian subsequently died at the hospital.Photos on Facebook page SGRV Front Man show the victim lying along the road with a trolley some distance away. A red car had stopped facing the opposite direction at the side of the road.The police have arrested a 47-year-old male car driver for careless driving causing death.Police investigations are ongoing.[[nid:725941]]lim.kewei@asiaone.com
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