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Singapore's Temasek to cut pay
Al l’, Singapore
Singapore's Temasek Holdings, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, says it will cut staff salaries in tire face of a global economic slowdown.
"We anticipate a global recession in 2009 and possibly beyond. Therefore, Temasek will institute a firm wide wage cut, led by senior management who volunteered 15 to 25 percent," the firm's managing director of human resources, Robert Chong, said in a statement issued late Friday.
In total, nearly 90 percent of the wage saving will be borne by our key managers."
Temasek's executive director and chief executive offi cer is Ho Ching, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
"As a long-term investor, we believe this current crisis will throw up tremendous opportunities. Yet, we also recognise the short-term challenges and will adjust our actions appropriately," Robert Chong said.
Temasek revealed its pay cuts on the same day the government further downgraded its growth forecast for 2008, pledged 1.5 billion US dollars in credit support for businesses, and said the economy - - already in recession -- could contract next year.
German HSH Nordbank gets 30b euros in state guarantees
AFP, Berlin
HSH Nordbank announced it had obtained up to 30 billion euros (38.5 billion dollars) in loan guarantees from the German government as part of a national rescue plan for the banking sector.
The regional bank reached a deal late Friday with a special market stabilisation fund created by the government to help banks in Europe's biggest economy weather the world financial crisis.
Based in the port of Hamburg and the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the public bank had request government aid earlier this month.
"We are working on a series of concrete measures that will allow us to advance the future strategy of HSH Nordbank," interim chief executive officer Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher said following the deal late Friday.
Shareholders will "ensure that the bank benefits from equity accordingly," the bank said in a statement, adding that it has "different tools" at its disposal, with the elimination of assets a top target.
The board of directors and shareholders will meet in the coming weeks to discuss their options, the statement said.
The former head of Nordbank, Hans Berger, resigned on November 10 due to the financial crisis, the bank said.
Air China reports $454m in fuel hedge contract losses
AFP, Shanghai
Flag carrier Air China said Saturday it was facing fuel hedging contract losses of up to 454 million dollars at the end of October as global oil prices tumbled, state press said.
In a statement to the Shanghai stock exchange, the airline said it was facing fair value losses on fuel hedging contracts of about 3.1 billion yuan (454 million dollars) as of October 29, Xinhua news agency said.
But the hedging contracts have not caused any actual cash losses and the actual loss would depend on future movements in oil prices and adjustments of fuel hedging positions, it said.
Earlier the airline, also listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, said it had booked a loss of 1.94 billion yuan in the third quarter due to weak travel demand.
Crude oil prices have plunged around 66 percent from a peak of 147.27 dollars per barrel on July 11 on concerns over a deep and prolonged recession of the global economy.
State media has reported that Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, the nation's three major state-owned carriers, were seeking government cash injections to cope with high costs and weakdemand.
Nikon lays off 1,500 in Thailand as demand slumps
AFP, Bangkok
Japanese camera-maker Nikon has laid off 1,500 subcontractors in Thailand, a government official confirmed Saturday, after a fall in demand put down to the global financial crisis.
Amporn Nitisiri, director general of the Labour ministry's labour protection and welfare department, said most of those losing jobs at Nikon had worked at its manufacturing plant for less th an a year.
"I have been informed by Nikon's personnel department that 1,500 sub-contractors have been laid off and the company had paid them compensation," she told Thai television.
"It's increasingly drastic this year as there are now 348 companies who have laid off a total of 28,600 workers and we also think it is likely that a further 123 companies may layoff an estimated 56,OOOworkers," she said.