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Back to Episodes#734: Backlash for Twelve Cupcakesโ Abrupt Closure & SM Lee Urges Immigrants Not To Flaunt Wealth
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Popular bakery chain Twelve Cupcakes suddenly shuttered on 29 Oct 2025, leaving 80 employees jobless overnight and the food workersโ union fuming. Elsewhere, SM Lee Hsien Loongโs remarks at a Chatham House dialogue, where he urged foreigners to not flaunt wealth, went viral online.
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(00:00) Words of Wisdom
(00:46) Intro
(08:27) Backlash for Twelve Cupcakesโ Abrupt Closure
(25:05) SM Lee Urges Immigrants Not To Flaunt Wealth
(51:07) One Shiok Comment
(54:22) One Shiok Thing
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Backlash for Twelve Cupcakesโ Abrupt Closure
- About 80 workers affected by Twelve Cupcakesโ closure; union says sudden notice 'unacceptable and unfair'
- Twelve Cupcakes shutters, in provisional liquidation
- โUnacceptable and irresponsibleโ: Union raps Twelve Cupcakes for abrupt closure, axing of 80 workers
- [2021] Twelve Cupcakes fined $119,500 over multiple counts of underpaying its employees
- [2021] Twelve Cupcakes to join food workers union
SM Lee Urges Immigrants Not To Flaunt Wealth
- 'S'porean Chinese are different from Chinese-Chinese': SM Lee on importance of a national identity in multiracial S'pore
- Transcript of PM Lee Hsien Loong at the Chatham House Dialogue (Oct 2025)
- SM Lee urges immigrants not to flaunt wealth or 'zoom' their Ferrari or Lotus at night to show they've arrived
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