The Star online, 21 Mar 2009, Seah Chiang Nee
The rapid disappearance of jobs has become the biggest single problem for Singapore, next to the economic crisis itself.
YOU’RE hired ... sorry, I mean fired – headlined a recent story concerning Singapore’s worst job slump for graduates.
It described the plight of a final-year economics student who lost her job in an American bank that was offered to her last November before she graduated.
She was one of at least three others from the National University of Singapore who were similarly “retrenched” by troubled firms – even before they had done a single day of work.
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