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As the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccination begins in the UK, employers will be considering the implications for their staff and workplace.

For more than two decades, Pham Van Thuoc has scoured Europe in search of historical church clocks, bringing them back to his home in Vietnam where he lovingly restores them.He now has 20 clocks – many of which are more than a hundred years old and including one so big it weighs a tonne – housed in a warehouse in northern Thai Binh province where they fill the air with a cacophony of whirring noises, ticking and chimes.Thuoc, who believes his collection is one of the largest in the world, said…

For more than a decade, Park Sang-hak has flown leaflets attacking North Korea’s ruling Kim dynasty across the heavily militarised border that divides the Koreas.Like other North Korean defectors-turned-activists in South Korea, Park believes the key to bringing down his homeland’s totalitarian system lies in arming his former compatriots with information about the outside world. After years of attracting controversy in his adopted home, Park’s activism could soon land him in jail.Under…

The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act, also known as the ‘Construction Act’, has been an important part of the law affecting the construction industry since it came into force on 1 May 1998.

A 37-year-old foreign domestic worker from Myanmar grew emotional several times in court in Singapore on Wednesday as she testified that her married employer, whom she saw as a brother or father, had touched and molested her three times within a month.The worker, who cannot be named because of a court order to protect her identity, took the stand on the first day of Pal Muhammad Irzuan Mokhtar’s trial in a district court.Irzuan, a 34-year-old Singaporean, is contesting one charge of using…

The optimism on display just two months ago when Singapore Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung pledged to reopen the city state and its tourism-reliant economy has taken a beating after a possible local coronavirus case was found aboard one of Royal Caribbean ships.In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the 1,680 passengers and 1,148 crew on Quantum of the Seas – enjoying day three of a four-day “cruise to nowhere” – were alerted to an announcement that a suspected case of Covid-19 had been…

Ed Goodwyn tells HRNews that HR has a key role to play during an administration and how things often happen very quickly

Indonesia held nationwide regional elections on Wednesday with more than 100 million voters expected to cast a ballot, despite warnings about worsening the nation’s Covid-19 crisis.The archipelago of nearly 270 million – the world’s third-biggest democracy and fourth most populous nation – delayed the vote originally set for September as it struggled to contain soaring infection rates.But the polls were rescheduled, even as critics warned over the risks amid widespread violations of virus…

On November 3, which Indonesia commemorates as Santri Day, a virtual seminar was held by the Indonesian Alumni Association in China with the Islamic Boarding School of Nurul Jadid in East Java province about the role that Santri Muslims have played in strengthening relations between Indonesia and China.Santri, who practise a more orthodox version of Islam rather than the syncretic Javanese version that incorporates local customs, often study at traditional Islamic boarding schools. Their name,…

Aisleen Pugh tells HRNews why employers may choose to depart from aspects of the Acas guidance