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November 23, 2008 Sunday

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Straits Times Headlines

$600m for retraining workers

$2.3b loan and credit facilities

Inside

Good start but quick recovery is uncertain

View Points

Employers' group delighted

'Do we cut jobs to save costs, or cut costs to save jobs?'

Training comes to the fore as business slows down

Now the dough will rise for this aspiring baker

Tour guide gets help to return to work

No GST cut, but expect cash handouts

Growth may turn negative next year

An expansionary Budget in 2009

No plans to tweak Sing$ stance for now

Now it's up to the banks to act

Averse to lending? Not always, they say

Those disbursing aid should have discretionary powers

Package is merely appetiser to real Budget

Temasek to start firm-wide pay cuts

Statement soon on civil service pay

How good firms treat workers in a downturn

What it should have been **

Stay accountable to residents

TOWN councils must be accountable to their residents for what they do with the money they collect from them, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan.

But the Government should not meddle with how these funds are managed, just as it does not interfere with the town councils' other operations.

Another hospital to come

ANOTHER hospital in the east will be developed in about 10 years' time when the cohort of baby boomers will cross into their 70s.

This will ease the burden on Changi General Hospital (CGH), whose emergency department is one of the busiest now, possibly because of an overflow of patients from other hospitals, said Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Sunday. He reiterated this need for an additional hospital at a National Heart Centre's 10th anniversary celebrations event, a day after he spoke about it at a nursing awards ceremony.

It's a terrible time to be a seaman

WHEN Greek shipping chief engineer Apostolos Tsitsopoulos sailed through the Gulf of Aden last month, he was worried out of his mind.

Fewer expats

CALL it down and out of Singapore.

Zoo safety a mix of measures

Two pen flares missing

More tech centres for seniors

The world after the crisis

Pay cut for civil service?

Best time to buy a car

'09 growth may be negative

Expect cash handouts

Do we cut jobs or costs?

It's now up to banks to act

$600m to retrain workers

stories

1	Naked photo triggers outrage
2	Fatal fall caught on TV
3	Why we need immigrants
4	Thaksin on new offensive
5	Don't panic over buying
6	Cambridge faces competition
7	'I love you': Stabbed teen
8	Teen gang attacks 3 boys
9	Dead hours after wedding
10	Man hangs from gondola, safe

commented

1	2-party system won't work
2	Town councils' exposure: $16m
3	Is this rude?
4	Retrenched ... and what to do next
5	Questions over losses by town councils
6	Questions on investment products rally
7	Mkt-based pricing for new flats
8	COE crashes to $2
9	DBS Bank defends retrenchment
10	Are zoo workers safe?

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