SINGAPORE: Karaoke chain Teo Heng will pay its 120 employees only half of their salaries from this month, after holding out since late March without any revenue.

But Ms Jean Teo, one of its directors, is hopeful that the salary reduction would be temporary: “When we are able to reopen, we will pay them the balance 50 per cent, as much as we can … if we can pull through, I may even be able to give them a bonus.”