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        "id": 1012893,
        "msgid": "thomson-lays-off-workers-1447893297",
        "date": "1994-10-24 00:00:00",
        "title": "Thomson lays off workers",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Thomson lays off workers SINGAPORE (AFP): France's Thomson Consumer Electronics said it was laying off 900 employees from a Singapore plant manufacturing televisions. Thomson said in a statement that it was redistributing the TV manufacturing operations to another local plant and to facilities in Bangkok and Indonesia's Batam island. \"Seven hundred will be retrenched in a month's time. The others will be laid off in phases,\" a company spokesman told AFP.",
        "content": "<p>Thomson lays off workers<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (AFP): France's Thomson Consumer Electronics said it<br>\nwas laying off 900 employees from a Singapore plant manufacturing<br>\ntelevisions.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson said in a statement that it was redistributing the TV<br>\nmanufacturing operations to another local plant and to facilities<br>\nin Bangkok and Indonesia's Batam island.<\/p>\n<p>\"Seven hundred will be retrenched in a month's time. The<br>\nothers will be laid off in phases,\" a company spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson said that it would continue using Singapore as the<br>\ncompany's regional headquarters to provide key support services<br>\nfor facilities elsewhere in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Didier Trutt, Thomson general manager for TV manufacturing in<br>\nAsia, said it made \"good economic sense\" to expand the company's<br>\nmanufacturing operations in Indonesia and Thailand while using<br>\nSingapore as a regional base.<\/p>",
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