SINGAPORE: A retrenchment exercise by Eagle Services Asia (ESA) was halted by aerospace and aviation unions after it was found the aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firm had not followed due process in letting go of its workers. In the process, legal industrial action, which received “overwhelming support” from […]
Year: 2020
Aritra Chakravarty, founder of London-based online accounts and investments provider Dozens, admits it’s a tough time to be seeking up to 15 million pounds (US$19 million) for a start-up. LONDON/NEW YORK: Aritra Chakravarty, founder of London-based online accounts and investments provider Dozens, admits it’s a tough time to be seeking […]
Lawmakers from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party have decided to push for steps to restrict the use of Chinese-owned mobile video app TikTok, concerned that user data may end up in the hands of the Chinese government, public broadcaster NHK said. TOKYO: Lawmakers from Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party have […]
MANILA: A proposed Bill that will allow the Philippines to tax tech giants like Facebook, Alphabet’s Google and Youtube, and Netflix, moved a step closer to becoming a law after a lower house committee approved it on Wednesday (Jul 29). The Bill, which aims to raise 29 billion pesos (US$590 […]
SYDNEY: The Olympic movement faces its biggest challenge in four decades in getting a streamlined Tokyo Summer Games up and running next year, but influential official John Coates believes it will happen. Coates heads up the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Tokyo 2020 Games, which were postponed […]
DAEJEON, South Korea: On the final green of the tournament, Ha Ki-won carefully took his stance and addressed the ball. A gentle strike, and it rolled forward. In front of him it circled the hole, making a rattling sound as it dropped, and Ha raised his fist in triumph, taking […]
HONG KONG: The union representing FedEx Corp pilots on Tuesday (Jul 28) called on the US package delivery company to suspend its operations in Hong Kong after some of its members were subject to “extremely difficult conditions” in government-mandated quarantine aimed at tamping down the spread of COVID-19. The Air […]
SHANGHAI: China reported 101 new coronavirus cases for Tuesday (Jul 28), its highest single-day figure in three months, as gyms, bars and museums closed in infection hotspots. Of the new cases, 98 were domestic infections, mostly in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a growing cluster first discovered earlier this […]
SINGAPORE: From August, local mid-career jobseekers will be able to apply for more than 13,000 attachments with companies across multiple industries, under a new career pathway programme, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) on Wednesday (Jul 29). The SGUnited Mid-Career Pathways programme, introduced earlier this month […]
SYDNEY: Australia has sent defence and emergency medical teams, usually deployed to disaster zones, to aged care homes in the city of Melbourne to try and help contain a rapidly spreading outbreak of the coronavirus. Another hotspot, in inner-city Sydney, has forced a senior adviser to Prime Minister Scott Morrison […]