Outsourcing can go both ways (or, would you telecommute to Singapore?)

Thomas Crampton posts a fascinating e-mail from the deputy editor of Singapore's Straits Times--sent out in the wake of the news of pending layoffs at the New York Times:

Would you know anyone within the NYT who could help us put out the word that we would be happy to take on some copy-editors, which we are in dire need of.

Ideally, they would operate in our newsroom in Singapore, but we are open to the idea of some working in the US ...