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[ad_1] Tens of thousands of protesters defied the ban on gathering more than four people to celebrate mass at a major Bangkok landmark on Sunday, carrying posters depicting activists detained in four consecutive days of raucous anti-government demonstrations. The youth-led movement has suffered several blows this week, with dozens of …

[ad_1] Statements made in Parliament by Workers’ Party MP Jamus Lim on the minimum wage last week have generated a strong response from various trade unionists. In Facebook posts and a series of forum letters to The Straits Times and the Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao, union leaders have accused Associate …

[ad_1] In one of the toughest sanctions to date, a shelter was ordered to suspend operations for 30 days for failing to comply with Covid-19 safe management measures. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) ordered Hawaii Hostel on Bencoolen Street to suspend operations from October 11 to November 9 after investigations …

[ad_1] The Indonesian holiday island of Batam is preparing to welcome Singapore travelers again, after both countries formally agreed to resume cross-border travel for essential business and official purposes. Preparations are underway to install equipment to run polymerase chain reaction tests at the Batam Center ferry terminal, which has been …

[ad_1] Mon, October 19, 2020-9: 29 am UPDATED Mon, Oct 19, 2020 – 10:55 am POSTAL Singapore Post (SingPost) service provider is seeking to purchase a 38% stake in Freight Management Holdings (FMH), a fourth-party logistics services company (4PL) incorporated in Victoria, Australia for AU $ 85 million ( S …

[ad_1] BERLIN – Germany will breathe a collective sigh of relief on October 31 when the new Berlin airport finally opens. It will be nothing short of a nightmare coming to an end. Plagued by numerous construction problems, frequent address changes, and repeated reopening postponements, the airport had become something …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Cash proceeds from the 10.3 trillion rupee (S $ 950 million) sale of 6,050 telecom towers by Singtel’s Indonesian joint venture will likely support the telecom company’s dividends Singapore, according to DBS Group Research. Separately, RHB also said in a note on Monday (Oct …

[ad_1] Alibaba is spending $ 3.6 billion to buy a controlling stake in one of China’s top supermarket operators, while doubling grocery delivery, a key growth engine for the e-commerce group during the pandemic. The investment in Sun Art Retail Group will raise Alibaba’s 36.2 percent stake to 72 percent. …

[ad_1] PUTRAJAYA: Malaysians working in Singapore are not prevented from returning, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. He said that under the recovery motion control (MCO) order, there are some categories of applications for the purpose of entering and leaving the country. “We have received requests from Malaysians …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – A Japanese woman who was found dead with her son in a forested area in Bukit Batok last year had strangled her son before committing suicide. A forensic court determined that 41-year-old Nami Ogata had suffered from major depressive disorder and that her 5-year-old son, who had …