Daily Briefing: Top 3 retirement fears; Hipster hawker centre rises in Bedok

And 3D printing pen gets seed funding.

Singaporeans’ retirement fears revolve around basic necessities rather than being able to play golf every day or have assets to pass on to their offspring. To be precise, the top 3 fears were not having enough money to pay for medical bills, not being able to look after themselves and suffering from decreased physical mobility. Read more here.
Chef Jeremy Han runs a hipster little hawker spot, Burning Oak, in a new-fangled private hawker centre. The place smacks of a deliberate attempt at organised street chaos- where each stall looks and feel different, like a back street food lane in parts of old Singapore or Malaysia. Find out about it here.
3D printing pen creator CreoPop has raised a seed funding round, the company announced today. The round is led by Wavemaker Partners and the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF), while other investors include Malaysian venture capital firm Kumpulan Modal Perdana via its E&E Catalyst fund, Ruvento Ventures, Australian 3D printing company 333D, and a number of private investors. Read more here.

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