13/12/2016 - The Online Citizen Asia

In a lavish ceremony full of customs and centuries of tradition, the Malaysian 15th king, Sultan Muhammad V (47), dressed ...

Judge of Appeal: jailed Bangladeshi worker should have been allowed to claim trial

High Court has quashed the conviction and sentence of a Bangladeshi construction worker who served a four-week jail term for ...

Worker’s Party seeks feedback on Redundancy Insurance scheme to help workers made redundant

The Worker's Party (WP) proposes its Redundancy Insurance (RI) scheme to ease the financial pressure on workers who are made redundant, ...

23 months’ jail and 6 cane strokes for police officer impersonator

The court punished a jobless man for duping and imposing as a police officer to an intellectually disabled woman with 23 ...

Number of journalists detained worldwide continues to rise

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is today releasing its annual worldwide round-up of journalists who are detained, held hostage or missing. ...

13,730 workers laid off in first nine months of 2016

Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has announced that in the third quarter of 2016 the resident long-term unemployment rate rose from a ...

MOM: Tripartite Partners to step up help for workers affected by economic situation

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) stated that a contraction in total employment, increased redundancy levels, and decreases in job vacancies ...

Significant drop in dengue infection cases compared to the week before

The number of dengue cases between from 4 to 10 December, had a significant fall in cases, where there had ...

MOM accepts recommendations of Tripartite Cluster for Cleaners