A two-week, less restrictive lockdown was imposed on the Indonesian capital yesterday, in a last-ditch attempt by the country to curb the rapidly surging number of coronavirus cases. The new move is unlike the large-scale lockdown in April, when only companies in 11 essential sectors – including food, health, energy and finance – were allowed […]
The worst is not over yet for Singapore’s labour market, experts said yesterday in response to the latest data on it for the second quarter of the year. They pointed to the tapering of wage subsidies, lack of demand and prolonged uncertainties as reasons for expecting retrenchments to continue and unemployment to climb further for […]
The leader of Malaysia’s Islamist party yesterday urged its members to remain faithful to its cooperation with former political enemies Umno and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia, as Malay-Muslim leadership is needed to helm the country. Speaking to about 400 delegates at Parti Islam SeMalaysia’s (PAS) annual congress in Kota Baru, Kelantan, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi […]
MANILA (REUTERS) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Monday (Sept 14) to prioritise buying Covid-19 vaccine to be made available by Russia or China, while taking a swipe at pharmaceutical firms of western nations asking for advance payment for their offers. Duterte has expressed optimism that the Southeast Asian country, which has recorded the […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore Press Holdings has launched The Business Times (BT) News Tablet Edition, allowing readers to get digital copies of BT on brand new Samsung tablets. The devices come preloaded with the SPHtab app, and has features such as automatic download of the latest BT e-paper when Wi-Fi is available, along with auto login, a […]
SINGAPORE – West Mall, Shake Shack at Liat Towers and 4Fingers Crispy Chicken at Changi Airport Terminal 3 are among places visited by Covid-19 patients while they were still infectious, said the Ministry of Health on Monday (Sept 14). There were four visits by confirmed cases at the Anytime Fitness gym in Queensway Shopping Centre […]
GENEVA (AFP) – Myanmar’s apparent continued targeting of civilians in the country’s Rakhine and Chin states could constitute additional war crimes and crimes against humanity, the UN rights chief said on Monday (Sept 14). Michelle Bachelet demanded action to remedy the serious rights violations suffered by Myanmar’s Rohingya minority in particular. Military operations in 2017 […]
SEOUL (REUTERS) – South Korean prosecutors on Monday (Sept 14) indicted the former leader of an advocacy group for victims of Japanese wartime sexual exploitation on charges of fraud and embezzlement. Yoon Mee-hyang stepped down as head of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, better […]
Umar Khalid arrested under anti-terror law for making a speech during nationwide protests against a citizenship law. A former student leader in India has been arrested for his alleged role in the deadly violence that broke out in the capital New Delhi in February, a move activists have dubbed “a witch-hunt exercise”. Umar Khalid, 33, […]
SINGAPORE – Retrenchments more than doubled to 8,130 in the three months to June, according to Ministry of Manpower (MOM) data released on Monday (Sept 14). This was sharply higher than the preliminary estimate of 6,700 released in July, and brought the total number of job losses to 11,350 in the first half of the […]