Posts Tagged ‘financial’
From selling burgers to saving rainforests (Sunday Times 26 Oct)
Mr Sun has been named by Time magazine as one of its Heroes of the Environment. The Australian had his first taste of entrepreneurship at 18, earning $13,000 on his first day selling vegetarian burgers and noodles at a rock concert. -- ST PHOTO: LIM [...]
Enquiry on credit card debts from a reader (25 Oct)
Hi Gilbert Firstly, I would like to commend you on the website. It was a good read. :) I chanced upon it when I was googling for information. Basically, I have some questions about the impact of bad credit rating and bankruptcy have on [...]
The meaning of life after retirement (Today 10 Oct)
The meaning of life after retirement 05:55 AM Oct 10, 2009 by Eveline Gan WORN out by his former stressful and hectic work life in the stockbroking industry, Mr See Chak Wah had initially looked forward to his retirement. But the novelty of [...]
More employers are looking to hire staff (ST 23 Oct)
More employers are looking to hire staff By Gabriel Chen OPTIMISM continues to inch back into the private sector with more bosses saying they will take on extra staff this quarter, according to a new survey. The proportion of employers [...]
Generation Y feels financial hardships (Daily Telegraph 22 Oct)
Wake up call ... Sophie Whitby and Amy King in Sydney yesterday. Source: The Daily Telegraph GENERATION Y - the group that has never known financial hardship - has awoken to the rude realities of modern life. Australian National Retailers [...]
Executive compensation: Busting those myths (ST 20 Oct)
Oct 20, 2009 ECONOMIC WATCH Executive compensation: Busting those myths By Richard D. Arvey, For The Straits Times EXECUTIVE pay has hit the headlines again, especially the huge salaries and bonuses being given in the financial [...]
Hope for all, regardless of faith (Sunday Times 18 oct)
SM Goh speaking to some of the booth operators at the Paya Lebar Methodist Church job fair yesterday. About 1,500 jobs were on offer from 20 employers from sectors such as health care, security and property. -- ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM Former car [...]
Migration does a world of good (Sunday Times 18 Oct)
Migration does a world of good Migrant workers do improve their own lives and economies of host countries: UN report By Tan Dawn Wei When Annie left her parents, husband and young children in Solo, Indonesia, to make that trip to [...]
Are new flats affordable? (ST 17 Oct)
THE Housing Board has stressed that new flats are affordable because first-time buyers use on average less than 30 per cent of their household income to service their housing loans. To shore up this finding, the board has also compared averae [...]
Lost your job? Here’s what to do (Readers Digest Oct 09)
(Our website www.transitioning.org was featured in this article below) Lost Your Job? Here's what to do by Chloë Bryan-Brown October 2009 Former hotel manager Simon Laurie joined a hotel and catering multinational when he was 25. “I [...]
Finding your way, reinvented (Today 14 Oct)
Mr Saurav Bhattacharyya, Executive Director of Quantum Inventions Finding your way, reinvented 05:55 AM Oct 14, 2009 by Cheow Xin Yi SINGAPORE - A lack of business experience has not deterred Mr Saurav Bhattacharyya, a former university [...]
Why a crisis of trust hurts the economy (ST 16 Oct)
Why a crisis of trust hurts the economy By Howard Davies PUBLIC trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial crisis. That is hardly surprising, as [...]
Colleges fight for Chinese students (Asiaone 14 Oct)
Colleges fight for Chinese students Wed, Oct 14, 2009 China Daily/Asia News Network By Wang Wei Competition between international universities is heating up, as China grows as one of the largest exporters of students aiming to study [...]
25 Things I Learned About Business from “Its Always Sunny” (Focus Editors)
Fans of FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia might chuckle at the idea of gleaning serious business advice from such a silly show. Between Frank’s bluntness and Deandra’s cluelessness, the characters are hardly captains of industry. But a [...]
Merit in a small loan programme in S’pore (ST 13 Oct)
Merit in a small loan programme in S'pore By Lee Yoong Yoong, For The Straits Times HOW do you live on an income of less than US$2 (S$2.80) a day? More than a quarter of the world's population struggle with this question every day. According [...]
