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And the expat model is broken in Singapore!

Something big is missing from Singapore’s picturesque and impeccably maintained highway linking downtown with Changi Airport: traffic. The collapse in international travel has hit the city-state especially hard. Borders are shut to tourists and much of Singapore Airlines Ltd’s proud fleet is mothballed. The idea of “flights to nowhere” had even been floated — effectively three-hour sight-seeing trips that would ...

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Russia’s second wave raises economic risks

Russia has done better than expected in the face of a pandemic and unprecedented oil crisis. That relative stability masks weaknesses that will impede its ability to recover fast, even if it can limit the cost of a second wave. Coronavirus cases are surging again: Russia reported nearly 11,000 new infections on October 05, the most since mid-May. Only around ...

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Southwest Air targets pay cuts in bid to avert layoffs

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co will seek to cut employee compensation in a last-ditch effort to avoid the first involuntary layoffs in the company’s 49-year history. The company wants to have givebacks in place by January 1, CEO Gary Kelly told employees in a video message, warning that “we all need to sacrifice more.” Kelly won’t receive a salary through the ...

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