As coronavirus batters Singapore’s economy, lost jobs loom as long-term headache

Philip Leong gets out of bed at 3am every morning to open his food stall in Singapore’s Jurong district. He stands for hours over a sizzling wok, whipping up more than 100 plates of fried vegetarian bee hoon, or vermicelli. The 68-year-old has been doing this back-breaking work for nearly two decades, yet his life as a hawker was not borne of a particular passion for cooking but rather sheer necessity. In 2002, Leong lost his job as a senior engineering assistant at Singapore Technologies…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3096654/coronavirus-batters-singapores-economy-lost-jobs-loom-long-term