The United States on Monday said it was slashing the number of Chinese nationals permitted to work at the U.S. offices of major Chinese state-owned media outlets to retaliate against Beijing's "long-standing intimidation and harassment of journalists."
SINGAPORE: About 1,000 companies have been placed on the Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) Watchlist after being suspected of discriminatory hiring practices, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said in Parliament. Some of these are employers with an exceptionally high share of foreign ...
SEOUL: The U.S. Justice Department charged two Chinese nationals with laundering more than US$100 million in cryptocurrency on behalf of North Korea, in court filings that detail Pyongyang's use of hackers to circumvent sanctions. According to an indictment filed in federal court in Washington, D ...
SINGAPORE: Low-wage workers will receive improved training support under a new workfare scheme in a bid to boost their career mobility, Minister of State for Manpower Zaqy Mohamad announced in Parliament on Tuesday (Mar 3). From July 2020, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) Scheme – which replaces ...
MELBOURNE: An Australian court on Tuesday (Mar 3) ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay three women a total of AUS$2.6 million (US$1.7 million) plus legal costs as compensation for misleading patients and surgeons about the risks of its pelvic mesh implants. The Federal Court of Australia awarded the ...
Swiss Re plans to make UBS Group Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti its chairman from next year, the world's second-biggest reinsurer said on Tuesday, turning to a financial industry veteran with scant insurance experience.
Amazon.com Inc has quietly opened a series of small warehouses closer to big U.S. cities in a move to shave hours off delivery times, the company told Reuters.
Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday Kenta Kon will become its chief financial officer and the roles of some executives will be consolidated, as the Japanese automaker attempts to improve its production systems and cut costs further.
BEIJING: Chinese governments of every level had allocated a total of 108.75 billion yuan (US$15.58 billion) in special funds by Mar 2 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, a finance ministry official said on Tuesday (Mar 3). Fu Jinling, head of the social insurance division of the ......
Concerns are swirling that Japan's dream of hosting the Tokyo 2020 Olympics could be a fatality of the spread of the new coronavirus, jolting organisers, sponsors, and media firms who have spent billions of dollars in the run-up to the event.
