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Month: January 2023

Posted on January 12, 2023

Indonesian man fined US$370 million for losing millions of dollars of state money in insurance scandal

Judges ruled Benny Tjokrosaputro was guilty of arranging for state insurance company to buy overpriced stocks, which later lost their value, for personal gain.

Posted on January 12, 2023

What’s the employment angle to the EU’s corporate sustainability directive?

Sarah Munro tells HRNews about the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and its relevance to HR

Posted on January 12, 2023

Twitter orders Singapore HQ staff to clear desks, work from home

Office staff at the US firm’s Asia-Pacific headquarters were informed via email on Wednesday that they had until 5pm to leave the CapitaGreen building and resume their duties from home on Thursday.

Posted on January 11, 2023

Singapore arrests teacher who planned to join militant group in Palestine over terror-related offences

Mohamed Khairul Riduan planned to travel to Gaza to join a militant group and fight the Israel military. He is the first public servant to be detained by the Internal Security Department for terrorism-related offences.

Posted on January 11, 2023

Air strikes near India border as Myanmar junta bombs rebels

The bombing by jets killed fighters at the headquarters of the Chin National Front; reports say one bomb landed in India’s Mizoram state, but police say it landed on the international boundary.

Posted on January 11, 2023

Legal experts welcome UK consultation on Hague Judgments Convention

A consultation on whether the UK should join the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention has been welcomed by legal experts as a possible solution to some of the cross-border judgment enforcement problems created by Brexit.

Posted on January 10, 2023

US, West ‘uncomfortable’ with changing world, view China as a threat: Singapore’s George Yeo

Singapore’s former foreign minister George Yeo said the US and the West are ‘uncomfortable’ with the idea of a multipolar world given their long dominance, but they should not resist it.

Posted on January 10, 2023

Move to ban non-compete clauses from US employment contracts

A US regulator has outlined plans to ban US employers from applying new, or relying on existing, provisions in employment contracts that restrict workers’ ability to move to new roles with different employers.

Posted on January 10, 2023

Daredevils climb Malaysia skyscraper, defying lightning flashes

Another group of daredevils has allegedly breached Malaysia’s Merdeka 118 tower – still under construction – and posted a video of their climb on social media.

Posted on January 9, 2023

Singapore woman jailed 14 years for ‘shocking, heinous’ fatal abuse of Myanmar helper

Prema S Naraynasamy was sentenced for abusing Piang Ngaih Don who died of a brain injury with severe blunt trauma after months of repeated abuse, and was starved until she was only 24kg.

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