With more than 80 percent of its ethnically diverse people staying in public flats -- and foreigners now accounting for a third of the population of five million -- void decks are an important part of daily life in Singapore.Like blank canvasses on which Singapore's ethnic rainbow is painted, void decks host everything from weddings and funerals to romantic trysts and day-long chequers sessions that draw retirees from all ethnic groups.
"The void deck is a place for collective idling'," said Chua Beng Huat, a professor with the National University of Singapore's sociology department. Full Story
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