Month: January 2025

Australian private sector employers should prepare a statement to accompany the public disclosure of their gender pay gap data, which will happen for the second year running in little over one month. They should view the preparation of an employer statement as essential, even though it is not mandatory.

Philippine officials insist the pause in US$500 million in military aid is temporary, but analysts warn it signals a broader strategy shift.

169 passengers and seven flight attendants were evacuated down inflatable slides, Yonhap news agency reported.

The European Commission is considering taking action under the EU’s International Procurement Instrument (IPI), having found continued discrimination against EU medical devices in China’s public procurement market.

The suspension of funds from USAID threatens to undermine vital social welfare and governance initiatives, analysts say.

Investing in the national grid operator, partly owned by China’s State Grid Corp, boosts government control over critical power infrastructure amid geopolitical tensions.

Brics has become an alternative power base outside the reach of the US and its allies, and a rising counterweight to US influence globally.

The body of Lamduan Armitage – née Seekanya – was found by hikers in the Yorkshire Dales in 2004, but she remained unidentified until 2019.

More than 2,600 Filipinos live in Iceland, a nation of just 393,000, drawn by better pay and a new start in a land of ice – and opportunity.

Sri Lanka cancelled the agreement after allegations of corruption in a US probe last year, AFP reported citing unnamed government officials.