A NEW Credit Suisse report has predicted that an astonishing 300,000 jobs could be lost in Singapore this year and next.

Most of the workers to lose jobs would be foreigners, who would then have to leave the country, leading to a drop in Singapore's population, it said.

But other economists and industry body heads say the Credit Suisse figure is extreme, even in an unprecedented crisis such as this one.

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