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Daily Briefing: Rental market largely unhurt by foreigner quotas; NEA mulls over using mosquitoes to fight dengue

And JEM Mall's sprinklers shocked shoppers.

  • It has been six months since authorities imposed quotas on subletting HDB flats to foreigners and only about one percent of Housing Board neighbourhoods have reached the limit as of June, according to HDB in media reports. Find out more here.
  • After seeing a sharp rise in dengue fever cases in recent weeks, Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) is looking into fighting fire with fire — in this case, using the male Aedes mosquito to curb the growth of dengue-spreading females. Read more here.
  • Some visitors and tenants of JEM shopping mall got a big surprise at noon Tuesday when it started “raining” in parts of the mall. Know more here.
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