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Aged over 50, experienced and looking for work. Will employers bite?

Mature job seekers are finding it tough to find employment.

Even as older workers are encouraged to remain in the workforce for longer, the question is whether employers are willing to hire them.

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Grab Holdings boosts 2026 forecasts on strong delivery, ride-hailing demand

Disney eyes thousands of layoffs, with managers asked to target 20% in cost savings

MAS sets aside $30m to help insurers build expertise in funding major projects

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Expensive but worth it: Exhausted by the digital world, I turn to grandma hobbies

The effort and cost of scrapbooking or letter writing make such endeavours more precious.

The writer has picked up analogue activities such as letter writing, scrapbooking, and film and polaroid photography.

Woman lost her inheritance after disputing dad’s right to sell his property

How two parents helped beneficiaries of their wills deal with troublemakers

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ST Headstart: How to deal with your paggro boss

Deflect backhanded compliments with poise.

ST Headstart: Getting ahead in the job hunt

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ST Headstart: Are you doing your colleague’s work?

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Singapore companies

ST Engineering bags $5.6 billion in new contracts for Q3 2026

Total contract wins for the nine months of 2026 is at $13.2 billion.

Some $2.4 billion worth of contracts was secured by ST Engineering’s urban solutions and satcom segment.

OCBC is Asia-Pacific’s strongest bank and third globally: The Asian Banker

Business excursion to China: UOB’s annual next-gen programme targets high-net-worth heirs

Who owns the 10 Singapore firms targeted by the haze law?

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Air India seeks more wide-body jets, sees profitability ‘very soon’, CEO says

Air India CEO Tewolde Gebremariam speaking at the Aviation India event in New Delhi, on Nov 3.

MAS’ Future of Finance Institute starts operations with AI focus; names interim CEO

Alan Lim, head of the financial infrastructure and AI office at MAS, will serve concurrently as the interim CEO of FFI.

SIA Engineering’s first-half profit falls 1.7% to $81.9m, with revenue down nearly 10%

On a per-share basis, SIA Engineering’s earnings were down at 7.32 cents, from 7.45 cents a year earlier.

Hong Kong economy’s surprise jump takes growth to five-year high

Hong Kong’s property market has rebounded, helping lift the Asian hub’s growth to a five-year record.

Listing review process to come fully under SGX RegCo in move to speed up listings

From Jan 4, 2027, SGX RegCo will review the listing documents submitted by prospective issuers seeking to list on the mainboard and Global Listing Board.

ChatGPT creator OpenAI loses bid to block Singapore start-up’s GemGPT trademark

OpenAI argued that “GemGPT” conflicted with its earlier registered trademarks, including ChatGPT and numbered GPT marks like “GPT-3”.

Australian central bank chief signals pause after split decision on latest rate hike

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s governor Michele Bullock says “we’re basically preserving our options” on whether to raise interest rates again next year.

China’s ‘Lipstick King’ touts AI tokens in first for Singles’ Day festival

Li Jiaqi hosts a live stream at the headquarters of MeiONE in Shanghai on Sept 7. Li sold 100,000 monthly memberships of Alibaba’s QwenWork office AI service within half an hour during a Taobao Live broadcast on Nov 2.

China regulator tells banks to pause IPOs: Report

The move follows a sharp selloff that saw the blue-chip CSI300 Index slumping 8.5% in October, its worst monthly performance in more than a decade.

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Even as older workers are encouraged to remain in the workforce for longer, the question is whether employers are willing to hire them.

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