SINGAPORE – Around 50,000 local jobseekers were hired by 14,000 or so companies in September under a scheme to encourage firms to boost their manpower plans, according to preliminary estimates out on Friday (Jan 22). About 50 per cent of the new hires were aged 40 and over. The scheme, known as the Jobs Growth […]
SINGAPORE – More employers in the heartland should look into providing job opportunities for persons with disabilities (PWDs), President Halimah said on Friday (Jan 22). This would allow PWDs to overcome constraints such as long commutes or issues with taking public transport, so they can seek jobs and become meaningfully employed. Madam Halimah encouraged more employers […]
SINGAPORE – More employers in the heartland should look into providing job opportunities for persons with disabilities (PWDs), President Halimah said on Friday (Jan 22). This would allow PWDs to overcome constraints such as long commutes or issues with taking public transport, so they can seek jobs and become meaningfully employed. Madam Halimah encouraged more employers […]
SINGAPORE – There are plans in place to mitigate any potential delays in deliveries that may come with the new requirement of testing cargo drivers entering Singapore, FairPrice group chief executive Seah Kian Peng said on Friday (Jan 22). Speaking to reporters at the official opening of FairPrice Xtra supermarket at Parkway Parade in the morning, […]
SINGAPORE – There are plans in place to mitigate any potential delays in deliveries that may come with the new requirement of testing cargo drivers entering Singapore, FairPrice group chief executive Seah Kian Peng said on Friday (Jan 22). Speaking to reporters at the official opening of FairPrice Xtra supermarket at Parkway Parade in the morning, […]
SINGAPORE – There were 15 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Friday noon (Jan 22), including one in the community, taking Singapore’s total to 59,250. The 14 imported cases had been placed on stay-home notices on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There was none from workers’ dormitories. More details will be announced […]
SINGAPORE – Retired local actor-director Ng Aik Leong, better known as Huang Yiliang, has been convicted of assaulting his Bangladeshi worker in 2018. The Singaporean, now 59, used a metal scraper to hit Mr Jahidul twice in the abdomen and once on the head at the Singapore Islamic Hub (SIH) in Braddell Road at around […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A 39-year-old Malaysian fishmonger who hit his wife’s head in a fit of rage after reading text messages on her phone paid the price when a Magistrate’s Court sentenced him to a month in jail and a RM1,000 (S$329) fine. V. N. Loganathan was accused of using criminal […]
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A 39-year-old Malaysian fishmonger who hit his wife’s head in a fit of rage after reading text messages on her phone paid the price when a Magistrate’s Court sentenced him to a month in jail and a RM1,000 (S$329) fine. V. N. Loganathan was accused of using criminal […]
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Japan’s vaccine programme chief on Friday (Jan 22) walked back on a goal to secure enough targeted supplies of Covid-19 vaccines by June, one month before the planned start of the Tokyo Olympics. Mr Taro Kono, the newly installed head of Japan’s inoculation push, told reporters that “old information” was behind a […]