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The finance sector has been hit with mass layoffs at banks both in Singapore and around the world. Are job cuts the only way out?

Yes, firms need to streamline operations to ride out the downturn
No, just cancel bonus & incentives, and cut pay from the top down
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shaking hands with Taiwanese former Kuomintang deputy leader Lien Chen.
China, Taiwan hold historic meeting
Updated: 22 Nov 2008 0412 hrs
Chinese President Hu Jintao met here Friday with a senior Taiwan envoy in the highest-level meeting to take place overseas between the rivals since their split in 1949, officials said.
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The Indian textile industry will lose half a million jobs by April 2009 due to the global financial crisis.
21 Nov 2008


 
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Coping With
The Crisis 
The Singapore Government has announced a set of packages to help businesses, workers and households, cope with the crisis.
 
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Handgrips on 12 out of 15 exercise bikes tested in Germany were found to contain substances that can cause cancer.
 
Your Very Own
3D Camera 
Fujifilm's FinePix Real 3D digital camera allows you to take both 3D and 2D images and videos.


 
TV Highlights
         
Super Science

Step into the glitzy world of jewellery where a Singaporean professor has found the secret formula in turning purple gold. Fall in love with the world’s first purple gold jewellery and uncover the story behind this metallurgy breakthrough. Fri , Nov 21 @ 1930hrs (Singapore time).
 
Japan Hour

Japan in winter means plenty of delicious winter foods. And the journey all over Japan to look for the delicacies of the season begins here. Sat, Nov 22 @ 1930hrs (Singapore time). Repeat telecast on Sun @ 0800hrs and 1300hrs.
 
Iconoclasts

Join Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam, as he surfs up with big wave surfer, Laird Hamilton on Iconoclast this Sun, Nov 22 @ 1930hrs (Singapore time).

 


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