{
  "id": 990925,
  "title": "Over S$1.9 million beauty prepayment losses reported in 1st half of 2026, nearly 18 times more than year before: CASE",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/over-s-1-9-million-beauty-prepayment-losses-reported-in-1st-half-of",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T18:41:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mothership",
    "slug": "mothership",
    "url": "https://mothership.sg/2026/08/beauty-prepayment-losses-complaints-increase-case/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Most complaints were about beauty businesses failing to honour contractual obligations, such as after sudden closures.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}