SINCE news of layoffs began making it into the papers daily in the past month or so, housewife Elizabeth Tan has been making weekly trips to the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple in Waterloo Street to pray.
Her 34-year-old son works in manufacturing, which has been one of the hardest hit industries in this financial downturn.
'I don't ask for much, just for him to be able to hold on to his job,' said Madam Tan, 65, who said she has never been very religious before.
Bad times for business, good times for religions? In the United States, churches have been filling up as rapidly as its economy has been unwinding since September.
