Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Tuesday, July 6. Ceca does not allow unconditional entry of Indian professionals into Singapore: Ong Ye Kung Singapore’s ability to regulate immigration and foreign manpower is not affected by Ceca. READ MORE HERE Indian EP holders nearly doubled to 25%, driven by digital economy […]
SINGAPORE – Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng delivered ministerial statements in Parliament on Singapore’s free trade agreements (FTAs), such as the Singapore-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca), on Tuesday (July 6). Read the highlights here. 1. FTAs, Ceca made ‘political scapegoats’ The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) has repeatedly made […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi let the world know on Tuesday (July 6) that he had rung Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to wish him a happy 86th birthday, disregarding any potential disapproval from China. Beijing regards the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile in northern India for more […]
SINGAPORE – Sharing or posting a video of a quirky dance performance online in Singapore, or a photo of a painting from an art gallery here, will soon require the performer or creator to be identified and credited, under proposed changes to the law. This applies not just to commercial entities and public figures, but […]
SINGAPORE – Ground-up initiatives play a key role in empowering and supporting vulnerable groups, and more support from the community is needed especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, said President Halimah Yacob in a Facebook post on Tuesday (July 6). Earlier in the day, she had visited Safe Place, an initiative by Lakeside Family Services that […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Twitter Inc no longer enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the United States microblogging giant has failed to comply with new information-technology (IT) rules, the Indian government said in a court filing. The statement is the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has officially said Twitter has […]
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Twitter Inc no longer enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the United States microblogging giant has failed to comply with new information-technology (IT) rules, the Indian government said in a court filing. The statement is the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has officially said Twitter has […]
SINGAPORE – The real wages of Singaporean and permanent resident lower-wage workers at the 20th percentile grew 39 per cent between 2009 and 2019, faster than that of the workers at the median at 33 per cent. And while the Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on these lower-wage workers last year, government schemes have […]
SINGAPORE – Embracing globalisation is critical to Singapore’s survival and pursuing free trade agreements or FTAs are key to the country’s existence, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Tuesday (July 6). Mr Ong, who said he is a former trade negotiator, was giving a ministerial statement in Parliament about the FTAs, which are trade […]
JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto seems to have put the controversy over the whopping arms procurement budget behind him, as he recently toured France and Germany to forge military cooperation between Indonesia and the two members of the elite Group of 7 (G-7). Given that both France and Germany […]