SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will investigate reports of employers terminating, or threatening to terminate, the service of an employee if he or she declines to be vaccinated, Senior Minister of State for Health and Manpower Koh Poh Koon said on Friday (July 2). His comments came after the tripartite partners consisting of […]
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia will reconvene Parliament for the first time this year in July, a minister said on Friday (July 2), just days after the King asked for the federal legislature to sit before the state of emergency expires on Aug 1. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Takiyuddin Hassan said that Parliament will sit “as soon […]
SINGAPORE – This year’s National Day Parade (NDP) aims to be a milestone event, paving the way for large-scale events when Covid-19 is endemic, its executive committee chairman said on Friday (July 2). There will be safety precautions in place, said committee chairman, Brigadier-General (BG) Tan Cheng Kwee. Even as the event returns to The […]
JIUJIANG/NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Hammered by tariffs, pandemic-fuelled disruptions and rising costs, some global manufacturers are reducing their reliance on Chinese factories and moving assembly lines to Vietnam, Malaysia and other lower-cost countries, or even Japan. But Mr Ryan Gunnigle, the chief executive of Kids2, is swimming against that tide. The Atlanta-based maker of toys […]
ISLAMABAD (DAWN/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – In the choppy waters of global politics, those states that keep national interest supreme and make deft foreign policy choices – specifically by resisting getting caught up in other people’s conflicts – are the ones that succeed. Of course, various Pakistani governments in the past have failed to adopt such […]
SINGAPORE – Despite Covid-19 restrictions on physical events, employees from Citi Singapore have raised over $150,000 for the youth charity concert ChildAid. About 8,500 employees of the bank took part in the company fundraiser Citi Supports ChildAid 2021, garnering donations through virtual events or physical activities held in line with safe management measures. These activities […]
JAKARTA – Indonesia kicked off its vaccination programme for young people on Thursday (July 1), starting with Jakarta, as it battles the rise in Covid-19 infections among minors in recent weeks. The capital city began inoculating 100 young people aged 12 to 17 after the Indonesia Food and Drug Monitoring Agency approved the use of the […]
YANGON (REUTERS) – Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon on Thursday (July 1), setting fire to an army uniform and chanting calls for democracy five months after a military coup ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The protest was one of the biggest in Yangon in recent weeks, […]
SINGAPORE – What is an ideal way to spend the day? “Sleep, exercise, work, eat, that’s as ideal as it gets now,” said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, as he answered some personal questions on Thursday (July 1) during an exclusive Straits Times interview on living with Covid-19. There is also no difference between a weekday […]
SINGAPORE – Perks for Covid-19 vaccinated individuals, such as being exempt from pre-event testing for certain events, are not meant to be discriminatory. Rather, this differentiation between the vaccinated and unvaccinated is necessary from a public health standpoint as Singapore moves towards creating a sense of normality with endemic Covid-19 as an end goal, Health Minister […]