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Singaporeans are STILL feeling unhappy

It's been more than two years since Singapore made headlines for being ranked the second unhappiest workforce in the world, but unfortunately, things haven't picked up a whole lot since then.

A newly released study by Ipsos APAC and Toluna found Singapore is the second least happy country in Asia Pacific, with 24% of respondents indicating they were either "not happy" or "not happy at all".

This is a 5% drop from the previous survey eight months earlier (Q3 2013).

Also read: Singaporeans not “emotionless” anymore

According to the report, the least happy country in the region was Japan, where 32% said they were either feeling pretty glum:

Ipsos' APAC ranking for happiness 2014

Also read: 80% of Singaporeans are unhappy with their salary

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