DHAKA (AFP) – Nearly 5,000 low-paid Bangladeshi garment workers stitching clothes for global brands have been sacked by factory bosses for joining strikes over wages this month that turned violent, police said on Tuesday (Jan 29). Thousands of labourers walked out of factory floors across the country in days-long protests that disrupted the US$30 billion […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been meeting with lawmakers at a faster clip than his two predecessors, a push that appears to be earning him allies as he navigates tricky monetary policy waters and vocal White House criticism. In his first 10 months on the job, and beginning well […]
SINGAPORE – Nanyang Girls’ High School (NYGH) has apologised to students and parents after an incident emerged during an attire check on Jan 22. Chinese paper Shin Min Daily News reported that a female teacher, believed to be the Secondary 4 year head, had unbuttoned students’ uniforms to check the colour of their bra straps […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s trucks business Traton wants to use alliances with rivals in China, the United States and Japan to tap into global growth and achieve a return on sales of nine percent, Chief Executive Andreas Renschler said on Tuesday. Volkswagen is integrating Germany’s truck brands MAN and Sweden’s Scania as well as deepening […]
HONG KONG — Singapore takes pride in being a technology hub where municipal decisions are driven by cutting-edge data science. “Data is the new currency, and with open data, the possibilities are endless!” the government says on its “smart nation” portal. But that image has been dented by two embarrassing data breaches. Last year, a […]
(Reuters) – U.S. stock market was set to open slightly higher on Tuesday, stabilizing after a slide a day earlier driven by concerns that the fallout from the U.S.-China trade dispute could be set to dominate the corporate earnings season and weaken profits. Initial releases in a bumper day of results showed Xerox Corp rising […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – At 93, Kim Bok-dong died as she had lived for many years: at the heart of the controversy over Japan’s use of forced labour in its wartime brothels. Kim, who died on Monday (Jan 28) at a hospital in the South Korean capital of Seoul, was a fixture at weekly protests outside […]
JAKARTA (DPA) – A rare variety of durian is being sold for 14 million rupiah (S$1,343) each at a shopping mall in an Indonesian town. The supermarket in Tasikmalaya managed to sell two of the fruit, named J-Queen, the day it went on sale despite its steep price tag, according to the news website Kompas.com This has made the […]
SINGAPORE – While conversations about death and dying may be difficult or culturally taboo, it is important to have them. These conversations can help caregivers understand their patients’ preferences in the last days of their lives, said President Halimah Yacob on the sidelines of a visit to Dover Park Hospice in Novena on Tuesday (Jan […]
Who are the poor in India? The fact is nobody quite knows. There are various estimates on the exact number of poor in India, and the counts have been mired in controversy. This week the Planning Commission said 29.8% of India’s 1.21 billion people live below the poverty line, a sharp drop from 37.2% in […]