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[SINGAPORE] Just eight months into her job Meg Whitman, Hewlett Packard's (HP) CEO, announced that 8 per cent of the technology giant's workforce would be laid off. This translates to 27,000 employees, making it the single biggest job cut in the company's 73-year history.
Companies
GLOBAL Logistic Properties (GLP) reported stronger fourth-quarter earnings yesterday and said it remained upbeat about China's domestic consumption growth.
Singapore
BEING a family-friendly business is good for business, it seems. According to a survey by the Businesses for Families Council (BFC), nearly a third of businesses polled saw revenue jump by over 20 per cent, thanks to family-friendly initiatives.
Economy Watch
[WELLINGTON] New Zealand unveiled its toughest budget in 20 years yesterday, with no spending increase and moves to increase the tax take in the struggling economy, as it laid out a return to a budget surplus by 2015.
Malaysia
[KUALA LUMPUR] Bursa Malaysia Bhd, the nation's exchange operator, plans to allow individual investors to start trading bonds on the bourse in the third quarter to boost liquidity in the market as it widens its product offerings.
China
[HONG KONG] The funding crisis for mainland Chinese property developers is intensifying, ratings agencies say, with real estate builders facing spiking borrowing costs and a limited ability to raise cash at a time when sales and economic growth are slowing.
India
[MUMBAI] India's purchases of rupees to support the currency are stripping the financial system of cash, forcing lenders to borrow from the central bank at the fastest pace on record and adding pressure for monetary stimulus.
World
[WASHINGTON] Orders for computers, machinery and other capital equipment dropped last month for a second month, pointing to a slowdown in US business investment.
Transport Hub
DUBAI-OWNED ground services giant dnata is eyeing the second major change in top management position at its Singapore operations in recent months.
Editorial & Opinion
THE power vacuum that has formed at the centre of Japanese politics with the advent of "revolving door" prime ministers and a divided national parliament is producing strange phenomena at the periphery.
Entertainment
IN spite of only being in its second year, Music Matters Live - the three-day festival that runs parallel to the Digital Matters and Music Matters conferences - has pulled off what no other festival here has managed: it's gone global via the Internet, live, courtesy of official broadcast partner YouTube.
Cinema
A DECADE and a half in, the Men in Black (MIB) franchise is clearly showing its age, and not just because early in this belated second sequel, Tommy Lee Jones's character Agent K channels Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, confessing to Will Smith's Agent J that he's getting too old to be busting aliens.
Arts
ON the ordinary Portland Street in Kowloon, there is a quiet row of coffin shops situated on the ground level of a tenement building. When chatty Hong Kong residents pass it on their daily shopping rounds, they customarily lower their voices.
BizIT
TRADITIONAL "left-brain" developers should take note: right-brain skills of design and aesthetics are becoming increasingly relevant, according to the head of...
SME Inc
EVEN if they are not familiar with the brand, chances are most people would have encountered Freshening's products at least once in their life. The homegrown...
Executive Money
ONE of the most basic considerations for any investors considering the asset allocation of their portfolio is how to divide their portfolio between risk-free and risky...
Property
[LONDON] Britain is unlikely to ever develop enough houses and apartments to meet the demand of its population, Housing Minister Grant Shapps said.
Raffles Conversation
WHERE is everyone? That's what we asked ourselves when we stepped into Unilever's Singapore office on Pasir Panjang Road late in the afternoon on a weekday....
Views From the Top
What is the CEO's role in applying technology to enhance and even transform the workplace? How can the CEO ensure that there is meaningful conversation, and not a...
