Daily Briefing: Singapore's taxi drivers unhappy with Uber; Tips for Singapore book lovers to save money

And Singapore’s air quality worsens to “very unhealthy” level.

It seems that taxi drivers in Singapore fear Uber, which threatens their livelihood by using private drivers to pick up passengers. While they didn’t riot in the streets or overturn cars (Singapore clamps down hard on unruly behavior), they’ve privately complained to Khaw Boon Wan, the newly minted minister of transport, as he campaigned during the just-concluded general elections. Read more here.

Can you have too many books? If your answer to that question is a loud and vehement no, maybe your spending on books is taking up a sizeable portion of your total expenses. Nothing wrong with that, but it wouldn't hurt to look around for ways to grow your book collection while keeping costs manageable. Find out more here.

Singapore’s air quality worsened to a “very unhealthy” level as haze from Indonesian forest fires continued to drift across to the city state, according to pollution readings from the National Environment Agency. Read more here.

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