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Investors burn incense for luck
WHEN you're swimming in a sea of red, when nothing, not even rescue packages initiated by governments...
Hello? We can't repay our loans
WITH her flowing, hot-pink Indian suit, jangling silver bangles and perky voice, the last thing you would not...
Are S'poreans worried this could happen here? FOR optimists who had believed that the mayhem in the markets ...
$250k down the drain
THE injustice that she felt was so strong, she was trembling as she spoke..
Mood on the street? Misery on Shenton Way, sunny on Orchard Road. THE buzzword from the past week? Toxic. Toxic mortgage debt and toxic milk, both of which made the world a sicker place.
Cancer-stricken retiree loses $190,000 to big crash. 54-year-old Singaporean Lin Qing Si lay wide awake, staring at the orange floral curtains in her bedroom...
The organic truth - health comes first
It is a sweltering Saturday afternoon, and a constant stream of people enters organic food store Bunalun at Chip Bee Gardens...
I may end up in an old folks' home
WHEN she retired 20 years ago, former saleswoman Amy Tan did not expect multiple health problems to wipe out her savings.
CDCs ready for rising nos seeking help
MAYOR Zainudin Nordin was at a conference when he heard Singapore had slumped into a technical recession.
  My savings of $25,000 might be zero

• Fire sale: Owners dump condos

• No money, no hubby

• Women sell eggs to pay off debts

• Forget costly games, the hottest toy is....

• We're scaling back on my wedding plans

• We have to scrimp even harder

• Moving out is now on hold

• I've had to cut pay, retrench, close offices

   

• Organiser confident of raising $1 million

• It's time to expand

• I have jobs lined up for the next 2 yrs

• As long as I have work, no prob

• I go the extra mile for my customers

• I'll go where the jobs are

• Lay off my workers? No way

• Fitness training is recession proof

• Any time is a good time to start a business

   
 


Prepare: Pain Ahead
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Job loss:
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By most accounts, the Government has done almost everything it can to prepare Singapore workers to weather
this cycle of recession...
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How to survive a bear's mauling
Like some other market
writers, I feel the heavy hand of history resting on me as...
 
Minibond holders still grappling with outcome

I hope DBS OCBC and Maybank will do the right thing as this would tarnish their reputations and local investors may pull out their money from their banks...
- live the dreams

Swift relief for most vulnerable investors

How much of that money is to Hong Kong investors and how much to poor Singaporean investors?
- Jedi

Gone: The $500 million dollar dream
 
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