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JOBS will be a key part of the fourth Covid-19 support package, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat on Monday.
In today's paper
BEYOND COVID-19: LABOUR RESTRUCTURING
SINGAPORE has tried both the carrot and the stick to wean companies off over-reliance on foreign labour, but the novel coronavirus might just be the final straw for employers.
STARTUPS: BT EXCLUSIVE
GLOBAL venture capital (VC) firm B Capital, co-founded by Facebook billionaire Eduardo Saverin, is working with its Asian portfolio companies with ample cash to suss out merger and acquisition (M...
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TRADE associations in Singapore are appealing to the government for more support in resuming some industry activities, albeit with safety measures in place.
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THE Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday named Jurong Point's NTUC FairPrice and Shokutsu Ten Japanese Food Street as public places visited by Covid-19 cases for more than 30 minutes.
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GOVERNMENT service centres dealing with issues such as housing, employment passes and taxes are set to reopen on June 2 as Singapore enters Phase 1 of the post-circuit breaker period.
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DESPITE sweeteners such as overseas work opportunities and higher pay, some jobs are persistently shunned by locals for being too dirty or intensive.
BT EXCLUSIVE: VIRUS OUTBREAK
AS MORE businesses buckle under strain amid the virus outbreak, some firms in the professional services are boosting their restructuring and insolvency (R&I) practice with more aggressive...
BT EXCLUSIVE: STARTUPS
STARTUP valuations in South-east Asia are beginning to soften as the industry comes to terms with the economic impact of Covid-19, venture capital (VC) investors told The Business Times. But VCs...
MARK TO MARKET
THIS past week, the US Senate passed by unanimous consent a bill that could disqualify many Chinese companies from listing on American stock exchanges.
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ONE of three Singaporeans confirmed to have Covid-19 on Sunday was a childcare centre worker. The 33-year-old woman worked at Iman Childcare (Tampines) and was one of 548 novel coronavirus cases...
