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Malaysia palm plantations urge government to let foreign workers return

4Jul

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USA, World

Malaysia palm plantations urge government to let foreign workers return

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm plantations have urged the government to let foreign workers return, warning of severe damage to the palm-oil industry if it is not granted an exemption from a hiring freeze. The Malaysian Estate Owners' Association implored the government in a statement on Friday (Jun 26) to consider the survival and sustainability of the sector and let grower companies that have been unable to recruit locally hire foreign workers immediately. The palm oil industry in Malaysia, the world's second-largest producer and exporter of palm oil, faces a worsening of its chronic labour shortage. It relies on foreigners for 70 per cent of its plantation workforce and almost all its field work, especially people from Indonesia and Bangladesh. Thousands have left the plantations f...

TikTok denies sharing Indian user data with Chinese govt

4Jul

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USA, World

TikTok denies sharing Indian user data with Chinese govt

NEW DELHI: TikTok denied Tuesday (Jun 30) sharing Indian users' data with the Chinese government, after New Delhi banned the wildly popular app in a sharp deterioration of relations with Beijing two weeks after a deadly border clash. "TikTok continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law and have not shared any information of our users in India with any foreign government, including the Chinese government," TikTok India chief Nikhil Gandhi said in a statement. "Further if we are requested to in the future we would not do so. We place the highest importance on user privacy and integrity," he said, adding that it had been invited to a meeting with the Indian government "for an opportunity to respond and submit clarifications". TikTok is owned by C...

Possibly millions of jobs could be lost if planes stay grounded, Heathrow boss says

4Jul

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USA, World

Possibly millions of jobs could be lost if planes stay grounded, Heathrow boss says

related media assets (image or videos) available. Click to see the gallery. 2 related media assets (image or videos) available. Click to see the gallery. LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of jobs, if not millions, could be lost in Britain if aviation is not able to resume quickly, the chief executive of London's Heathrow Airport said on Monday (Jun 8). Britain introduced a 14-day quarantine period for international arrivals on Monday despite warnings from its biggest airlines that the move will decimate domestic tourism and damage exports. "We cannot go on like this as a country," Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye told Sky News. "We need to start planning to reopen our borders. "If we don't get aviation moving again quickly, in a very safe way, then we are going to lose hundreds of th...

[America] Joe Biden promise refugee status to Afghan Sikhs if elected

20Jun

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Asia, USA

[America] Joe Biden promise refugee status to Afghan Sikhs if elected

Expressing concerns over targeting of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan after the attack on Gurdwara Har Rai Sahib, US Presidential candidate and former Vice-President Joe Biden has said they will be given refugee status in America if he was elected President.“If I am elected President, my administration will renew our commitment to refugees….I will raise the annual global refugee admissions cap to 1,25,000,’’ he declared in a statement issued on a day when a US panel, frequently in the cross-hairs of the Ministry of External Affairs for its observations on Kashmir and Islamophobia in the Indian media, also made common cause on the Sikh issue.The influential Sam Brownback, head of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), called the attacks on the Sikhs in Afghanistan a ...

[News] Pakistani man arrested for attacking UK Sikh Shrine, leaves note on Kashmir

20Jun

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Asia, USA

[News] Pakistani man arrested for attacking UK Sikh Shrine, leaves note on Kashmir

A Pakistani man has been arrested by the UK police for breaking into a gurdwara in eastern England. Guru Arjan Gurdwara in Derbyshire alerted the Police after its front doors were found smashed in the early hours of Monday morning.He was later identified and arrested.As per the statement of the gurdwara, at around 6 a.m., "an individual entered the gurdwara premises causing thousands of pounds of damage. We can confirm that no individual was injured and that the clean-up process has begun."The gurdwara described the vandalisation of the shrine as a hate crime. The CCTV footages of the person, showed smashed glass doors of the gurdwara, glass shards scattered all over the floor and a man inside the premises.The vandal left a hand-written note in broken English on a piece of paper in the gur...

China making inroads into Pakistan’s mainstream media and telecommunications, warns experts

17Jun

By Michael SmithNo Comments

USA

China making inroads into Pakistan’s mainstream media and telecommunications, warns experts

Chinese inroads into Pakistan's mainstream media, and state-level bilateral cooperation on telecommunications infrastructure and surveillance is growing, posing a threat to people's freedom of speech in the country, a researcher has warned.Nowmay Opalinski, a research intern with the Centre for Internal & Regional Security (IreS), said, "These developments are taking place against a backdrop of Pakistani state's growing attempts to censor online content domestically. “How does this set of circumstances favour China? Where does China's big picture media strategy fit into this?" he added. Opalinski found that since 2012, the government of Pakistan has been attempting to implement a national firewall to tighten control over content shared online. The introduction of the Pakistan Electroni...

Singapore secured about S$13 billion in investment commitments amid COVID-19 outbreak

30May

By Joe RodriguezNo Comments

China, Singapore, USA

Singapore secured about S$13 billion in investment commitments amid COVID-19 outbreak

Singapore's Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing on Saturday said that despite the COVID-19 outbreak, the Economic Development Board (EDB) has in the first four months of this year secured about S$13 billion in investment commitments for the “next few years”.“These investments, in sectors including electronics and infocomm, will generate a few thousand jobs for workers in Singapore in the coming years, Chan explained.Companies such as chipmaker Micron and life sciences firm Thermo Fisher Scientific are adding jobs, he said.This “very good performance” means Singapore has exceeded the S$8 billion to S$10 billion which had been projected for the whole of 2020.Chipmaker Micron aims to add 1,500 jobs in Singapore over the next few years, while Thermo Fisher Scientific is increasing hirin...

Foodpanda waives commissions for one month for COVID hit Singapore hawkers joining the app

22May

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Singapore, USA

Foodpanda waives commissions for one month for COVID hit Singapore hawkers joining the app

As hawkers across the nation continue to borne the brunt of the dine-in ban in light of COVID-19, Foodpanda on Friday announced that the hawkers who get on board will not have to pay commission for the first month as part of a new initiative to ease hawkers' entry onto the food delivery app.Dubbed the "pandasupport hawker initiative", the incentive is being rolled out with "the understanding that commission fees are factored as a substantial barrier that is currently preventing hawkers from coming on board Foodpanda", the company said in a press statement.Over the last few months, food delivery apps have faced heat for charging steep commissions of 30 to 40 per cent, eating into hawkers' already-thin margins. Foodpanda's latest move comes as the food and beverage sector prepares for contin...

PEZA reports investment performance amidst the Enhanced Community Quarantine

20May

By Brian ThompsonNo Comments

China, Market, USA

PEZA reports investment performance amidst the Enhanced Community Quarantine

Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) Director General Charito “Ching” Plaza on Tuesday shared the top investment promotion agency’s performance for the first quarter of 2020 amidst the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ).“PEZA’s investments continued to be challenged for the First Quarter of 2020. On top of this issue is still the continuing uncertainty posed by the rationalization of incentives under the pending legislative measures that have created uncertainties. Added to this is the current pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, which has caused a tremendous and immediate impact on PEZA’s export manufacturers and exporters of IT-enabled services (BPOs),” stated Plaza.“Before the declaration of the ECQ on March 16, 2020, PEZA’s total approved investments from January to February 20...

Phoenix set to invest in road transport, property

20May

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Singapore, USA

Phoenix set to invest in road transport, property

Phoenix Petroleum Philippines Inc. is firming up its road transport operations with a new subsidiary, and also in property holdings in which it will invest close to P5 billion in the near term. The Davao-based firm, led by businessman Dennis Uy, will have these moves—first given the green light by its board of directors in the second half of 2019—approved by its stockholders in their annual meeting that will be held online on May 29. Phoenix said in a regulatory filing it needs stockholders’ approval to form a wholly owned subsidiary for a road transport business, which will have an initial capital of P57 million. Such company will absorb Phoenix’s existing operations related to road transport, in order for this to be efficient and to expand. Also, Phoenix intends to invest P4.9 billion of...

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