Under The Angsana Tree: Riot Erupts in Singapores Little.
A crowd set fire to vehicles and clashed with the police in the Indian district of Singapore late on Sunday, a rare outbreak of violence in the city-state. According to various reports, the disturbance began after a private bus struck and killed a foreign worker in the Little India area.. A report of Channel News Asia identified the dead worker as a Bangladesh national. However, this could.. Business Insider: Spore Calls For Calm After Little India Riot, The First Since 1960s.
Singapores Growing Success Sparks a Backlash
He cant build a competent staff to expand his $3.7 million business in Singapore, let alone launch overseas. Tightening government limits on foreign workers oblige Wild Rocket to hire Singaporeans for 60% of its openings, even though most locals shun .
Southeast Asia from Scott Circle: Crackdown in Cambodia.
Security forces in Phnom Penh first opened fire on striking garment workers, tens of thousands of whom have taken to the streets and joined CNRP calls to oust Prime Minister Hun Sen. That action left at least four people dead. The next day. Vietnam remains one of the top foreign investors in Cambodia, and during Hun Sens trip the two governments pledged to nearly double annual two-way trade to $5 billion by 2015. In recent weeks Sam Rainsys nationalistic and��.
Ex-Member of Kazakhstans Inner Circle Dies in Vienna Jail
He then married one of his employees, who had an Austrian passport, and changed his surname to hers. The two fled to Malta, one step ahead of an Interpol warrant. While there, he was investigated repeatedly by several European countries on suspicion of .
Southeast Asia from the Corner of 18th and K Streets: The.
President Barack Obama led a highly effective visit November 18���20 to Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia, where he attended the fourth ASEAN-U.S. Leaders Meeting and the seventh East Asia Summit. The robust U.S. presence and... Singaporean nongovernmental organizations and businesses expressed concern about the new regulations, citing rising demand for foreign employees. Singapore upholds death penalty despite reforms. Singapores parliament��.
AirAsia jets black boxes could be raised Friday
The plane disappeared from radar about halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia, bound for Singapore. Four bodies recovered Thursday raised the total to 44, Soelistyo said. Authorities believe the bulk of the bodies will be found in the .
Top Asian News at 1:30 am GMT
The U.S. government and major business leaders are renewing their call on the Thai government to crack down on slavery in its fishing fleets, and to punish people who force migrant workers to catch seafood that can end up in the United States. The.
Singapore: The next 50 years
The Singapore government acknowledges the severity of the productivity problem. But instead of drawing up viable solutions, it resorted to importing large numbers of foreign workers in the hope that they would boost falling productivity and.
Ten workers killed in Abu Dhabi building fire - newspaper
RIYADH: A tyre shop fire in Abu Dhabi late on Friday killed 10 foreign workers and injured eight others who were living in an upstairs apartment, the local Gulf News reported on Saturday. The blaze in the Musaffah district gutted the two-storey.
Hong Kong Woman Sentenced to 6 Years for Abusing Indonesian Maid
During the trial, Ms. Erwiana recounted the various ways she said Ms. Law abused her, including shoving a vacuum cleaner tube into her mouth, fracturing two of her teeth with a blow to the face, putting her on a diet of bread and rice and forcing her.
Unbelievable Chinese VIDEO rant; Aussie Ex PM Dies; Terminal Ends Phuket.
bloomberg Four out of five workers in the canneries are foreign, part of an economic web of some 4 million migrants employed in Thailands factories, fishing fleets, and brothels. The pressure is building to clean. http://www.bangkokpost.com.
Riot in Singapore: Big trouble in Little India | The Economist
Mr Sakthivel had been killed instantly. The first responders to arrive after the emergency call included two police officers, paramedics and Civil Defence personnel, who were there to extricate the body... All foreign workers pay kickbacks to all the people involved in the hiring process, agencies in the home country to bosses in singapore in order to secure the job, so they adopt a long term approach in which they work the 1st year (sometimes 2 or 3) to pay back the��.
Not Everyone Is Happy About the Influx of Foreign Workers.
Two years after Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley powerbrokers began their highly-publicized, heavily-funded push for immigration reform, the tech industry may be about to get exactly what it has hoped for: an��.
Southeast Asia from Scott Circle: Pritzkers June Business.
. long-term Asia strategy. Over the last two decades, international companies have moved their Asia headquarters from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Singapore and other ASEAN capitals. Read More | Read Newsletter in PDF��.
Parliament: Foreign Employee Dormitory Bill (Pritam Singh.
On 6 December 2014, the New Paper reported that four Malaysian foreign workers who were employed as cleaners died in a fire at a Geylang Lorong 4 shophouse, in Singapores worst fire in 10 years. Two firemen and eight��.
Migrant Worker Wins Hong Kong Abuse Case
On Tuesday, Ms. Erwiana spoke to reporters in the basement of a Methodist church, just two blocks from where two other Indonesian women, both former domestic workers, were brutally killed in October, in a case that highlighted the yawning wealth and.
In Singapores Shadows | ericellis.com
The PAP passed its plan on Sunday, which happens to be the one day of the week that the million-odd low-wage foreign workers in Singapore ��� people such as 33-year-old Indian labourer Sakthivel Kumaravelu, who make up about 20 per cent of. On Singapores Channel News Asia, which likes to think of itself as Asias CNN, the anchor mentioned his death only in passing.. A police car flipped on it side and set on fire by rioters in Singapores Little India district.
RIOT IN LITTLE INDIA, SINGAPORE: AFTERMATH.
That has created a market for ���repatriation companies,��� which deny allegations from activists and the United States that they use illegal tactics to expel foreign workers.. He then came to a group of 10 officers who were seeking shelter between a fire engine and an ambulance. Two officers.. SINGAPORE ��� Some key eyewitnesses will be providing evidence at the public hearing for the Committee of Inquiry on the Little India riot, Channel NewsAsia understands.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Fatal blaze in.
Many of the shophouses, which are more than 50 years old, used to be occupied by Singaporean families but they have moved out over the last two decades. The owners lease. workers. By Ng Lian Cheong and Vimita Mohandas, Channel NewsAsia, 7 Dec 2014.. IN THE light of the Geylang fire (4 foreign workers die in Geylang fire; Sunday), the Singapore Civil Defence Force should conduct checks on all shophouses to ensure fire safety measures are in place.
Two Foreign Workers Killed in Singapore Fire
SINGAPORE ��� Two foreign workers died while three others were injured when fire broke out in their rented apartment at 88 Lorong 6 Geylang Friday morning. The identities of the fatalities, believed to be foreign workers, have not been disclosed yet.
10 foreign workers perish in Abu Dhabi fire - The Nation
10 foreign workers perish in Abu Dhabi fire. ABU DHABI (AFP) - Ten foreign workers have died in a fire that hit a tyre shop in Abu Dhabi, apparently trapping the labourers in a warehouse used.
Four foreign workers died in fire accident - Singapore.
According to Channel News Asia, four foreign workers died in a fire accident at a unit of shophouse of No. 35, Geylang Lorong 4 (Channel News Asia 2014). The tragedy was happened on the early morning of 6 Dec, 2014.
North Korea Exports Forced Laborers for Profit, Rights Groups Say
There, 1,800 workers, sent by North Korea to earn badly needed foreign currency, were living together under the watchful eyes of North Korean government supervisors, Mr. Rim said. They worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or, often, midnight, seven days a week.
Singapore riot shocks the nation | DispatchLIVE
Chaos after worker run over by bus. SINGAPORE faced shocking scenes of burning cars and littered streets yesterday following a riot by South Asian workers in.
Woman in limbo after hubbys death in Singapore fire
A 50-year-old man who died in a fire in Singapore had gone to the republic to earn more money to pay for the education of his five children, Tamil Nesan reported. R. Rama Devi, 44, said her husband, K. Ramu, went in March to work as a cleaner. He was .
Singapore shocked by worst riots in decades, as migrant.
A crowd of about 400 people set fire to vehicles and clashed with police in the Indian district of Singapore late on Sunday after a man was hit and killed by a bus, the first major riot in the city-state for more than 40 years.. The riot is likely to fuel concerns about discontent among low-paid foreign workers.. Footage on Channel NewsAsia showed several vehicles in flames and debris strewn across Racecourse Road, one of the main thoroughfares in Little India.
Ferrying the Dead of Both Sides in a Cruel Afghan War
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan ��� On the brindled plains of southern Afghanistan, Malik Abdul Hakim is deaths ferryman. He collects the bodies of soldiers and police officers killed in areas of Taliban dominance and takes them home. From government centers, he .
North Korea: Pyongyang Marathon Shut to Foreigners Over Ebola Fears
While no cases have been reported anywhere near North Korea, the country shut out foreign tourists in October with some of the strictest Ebola regulations in the world. The North Korean news media have suggested Ebola was created by the United States .
Jeb Bushs Sense and Sensibility
In a week during which Rudolph Giuliani went crusader-ballistic questioning President Obamas patriotism���indeed, questioning his upbringing���Jeb Bush gave a speech about foreign affairs, the third serious policy speech hes given this winter. Giuliani.
AP News in Brief at 5:58 am EDT
LONDON (AP) - A disgruntled worker shoots up a workplace.. Foreign ministers and other representatives of Iran and the six powers it is negotiating with have said that despite significant obstacles, the talks have a chance of succeeding by Tuesday.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE; DEATH OF THE EARL OF ELLESMERE. Consols 93 5-8@3-4. COTTON QUIET--GRAIN DULL. Aid from Russia to China and Persia. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA. Contradictory Rumors About the Persian War. Attacks on the Palmerston Administration. Reported De traction of Canton.
The British Mail steamer Persia, from Liverpool about 8 1/4 oclock A. M. of Saturday, the 21st, arrived yesterday afternoon. The Arago arrived at Southampton morning of the 20th, and the New York (S. ??) at Greenock, at 8 1/2 oclock A. M. of the same day. The news by this arrival has several features of interest.. The treaty
Southeast Asia from the Corner of 18th and K Streets.
As shorthand for Indonesias regional foreign policy goals, the term is not new, but it is widely misunderstood. Indonesia, as a rising middle power itself, seeks to strengthen the role of middle and rising powers in the Asia��.
GEYLANG, RED-LIGHT DISTRICT IN SQUEAKY CLEAN.
(Above) Foreign workers waiting at the bus stop opposite the shophouse where they live. PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA. http://www.tnp.sg/news/4-die-geylang-shophouse-fire ��� Star. Saturday December 6, 2014 MYT 6:38:26��.