Indonesia-based ride-hailing firm Gojek announced on Tuesday night (June 23) that it will be trimming off 9 per cent of its workforce. According to Gojek, 430 workers will be affected — most of them will be from its Indonesia office, and the impact on its Singapore team will be minimal. …
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To help Singaporeans manage their cost of living, NTUC Enterprise is rolling out a $ 50 million support package, more than doubled the value of its support from $ 20 million last year. This package includes measures such as extending discounts and programmes until Dec 31 this year, it announced …
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Amid the economic downturn and an increased unemployment rate caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, all of Singapore’s 85,000 civil servants will not receive any mid-year annual variable component (AVC) payment, in an announcement made by the Public Service Division (PSD) on Thursday (June 18). In addition, there will be a …
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Back in April, Hong Kong-based travel startup Klook announced that they were laying off staff, putting some employees on temporary leave and implementing a company-wide reduced work week to cut costs amid the pandemic. In addition, all three of the company’s co-founders will be foregoing their pay until this Covid-19 …
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It’s been over half a year now since news first broke of COVID-19, and today over 400,000 people across the world have succumbed to the virus, with Malaysia alone having had 121 deaths. In April, the unemployment rate in Malaysia spiked to 5%, the highest since 1990, and it is …
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Ride-hailing and delivery platform Grab has announced that it will be laying off about 360 people, or slightly under 5 per cent of its employees, in a letter from co-founder and CEO Anthony Tan to Grab employees today (June 16). The layoff comes less than a week after they announced …
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As one of the high-tech farms in Singapore, technology has undoubtedly been at the forefront of N&N Agriculture’s processes. N&N Agriculture has invested $ 13 million into the pasteurisation technology to ensure that customers who love their eggs raw and runny can enjoy them without the risk of salmonella, especially …
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Singapore will be moving into the second phase of the circuit breaker reopening from this Friday (June 19). This announcement comes about two weeks after phase one started on June 2. “Phase 2 is a significant step in moving towards a new ‘Covid-19-safe’ normal,” said Health Minister Gan Kim Yong …
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On a regular day, 3D printing firms such as Siege Advanced Manufacturing and Additive3D Asia do both mass and customised 3D prints. When Covid-19 hit Singapore however, their businesses were disrupted and they witnessed their revenue falling by at least 70 per cent as clients cut back on their marketing …
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