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Singapore News - A pilot programme to familiarise S Pass holders arriving in Singapore and encourage positive interaction with locals is to begin in 2023. A settling-in programme that targets S Pass holders is currently not compulsory, Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng said in Parliament... Read more at www.tnp.sg

As sports fans prepare to flood the tiny Gulf nation, cranes and loaders are still running hard — as is criticism of Qatar’s human rights record and exploitation of workers.

Republican J.D. Vance says the nation's workforce ought to be strengthened by implementing a merit-based legal immigration policy.

The policy would increase immigration one week after the country’s census agency announced that Canada had set a new milestone in immigration.

MELAKA: Workers from Indonesia are top on the preferred list by oil palm plantation owners and smallholders, says caretaker Deputy Plantation Industries and Commo­dities Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Jeck Seng.

South Korean authorities have placed a temporary suspension on the recruitment of workers from eight Vietnamese localities

PETALING JAYA: A critical labour crunch is weighing on the nation’s prospects for recovery from the economic slowdown induced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thousands of people have allegedly been trafficked into labor by private contractors on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.

Singapore News - A shipyard operator, Asia Pacific Shipyard (APS), has been fined $200,000 for safety lapses that led to the death of a worker in a 2019 accident. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Thursday that APS was fined on Wednesday after pleading guilty to offences under the... Read more at www.tnp.sg

Big business executives and corporate donors are hoping Congress passes an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens working on U.S. farms.