With the economic impacts of COVID-19, many companies are having to cut jobs, reduce salaries, or put employees on no-pay leave. In contrast, however, Chinese Internet giant and TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is on a hiring spree. It aims to reach 100,000 staff globally by the end of 2020 by …
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Online grocery sites in Singapore are facing extremely high demand during this time, and many of their delivery slots are overwhelmed. To help fulfil this surge in orders, ComfortDelGro has partnered with RedMart, which has recently shifted its focus to selling “core necessities”, to deploy its fleet of 10,000 taxis …
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Hawkers nationwide have borne the brunt of the dining-in ban in light of Covid-19. Since the ‘circuit breaker’ measures kicked in on April 7, dining-in at hawker centres, coffee shops as well as other F&B premises has been prohibited and only takeaways and delivery are allowed. Hawkers who have not …
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Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) have imposed five composition fines for flouting safe distancing measures, after conducting enforcement checks over the long weekend. Two F&B establishments and one grocery retail store were fined for failing to implement crowd management and allowing customers and delivery personnel to crowd …
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COVID-19 has brought upon one of the greatest challenges towards Singapore’s economic resilience. Since the onset of the highly infectious virus, Singapore has taken many unprecedented measures to curb it. Among these measures include the closure of schools and shifting all education to home-based learning, as well as the closure …
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As food prices continue to go up, many low-income families struggle to put food on the table as salaries are not increasing as quickly so The Food Bank Singapore (FBSG) aims to help with that. What the charity does is that it collects and delivers food donated from individuals and …
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The People’s Association will distribute reusable masks to Singapore residents between April 5 and April 12. They can be collected from 3pm to 9pm on weekdays, and 10am to 9pm on weekends, with priority queues for senior citizens. Due to the increased severity and community spread of the COVID-19 outbreak …
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