Daily Briefing: $50 million incentive to help SMEs go green; Five-room flats will not qualify for Lease Buyback Scheme

And study reveals 1 in 9 Singaporean teens have been cyberbullied.

In an effort to encourage occupants and tenants of commercial buildings to adopt better energy efficient practices, Singapore's Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has rolled out a $50 million Green Mark Incentive Scheme targeting small and medium enterprises (SMEs). View more here.

The Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS) was not extended to bigger flats like five-room flats because the government does not want to see Singaporeans living in homes bigger than what they really need, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean yesterday and reported in the media. View more here.

This year, McAfee (Part of Intel Security) has announced that 1 in 3 Singaporean teens have had experience with cyberbullying. This group includes witnessing cyberbullying (61%), having been cyberbullied (28%) or were the cyber-bully themselves (29%). This means that 1 in 9 Singaporean Teens have either been the bully or have been bullied themselves. View more here.

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