CREATIVE Technology is cutting about 300 jobs worldwide, with most to go from Europe and the United States, it announced on Friday night.

Creative was not available to comment on how many Singapore employees will be axed in Singapore, where it has its corporate headquarters and a large part of its research and development (R&D) operations.

LONDON - WORLD Bank president Robert Zoellick said on Friday that 2009 was turning into 'a very dangerous year' for the global economy.

'2009 is shaping up to be a very dangerous year,' he told reporters ahead of Saturday's G20 finance ministers meeting on how best to tackle the worst economic slowdown in decades.

THE Government is taking a senior editor of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to court, accusing her of being in contempt of court in three articles published last year.

In the High Court on Friday, Justice Tay Yong Kwang granted an application by the Attorney-General to start proceedings against Ms Melanie Kirkpatrick, deputy editor of the New York-based financial daily's editorial page.

MEMBER of Parliamanet for Jalan Besar GRC Denise Phua said she felt alarmed after finding out about a verbal threat by a resident in her ward to 'hit' her.

She took the stand for the first time on Friday, on the third day trial of Ng Kim Ngweng, 49, a rag-and-bone man, who allegedly threatened to cause her hurt in a telephone message to a government hotline on Jan 12.