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JEMPOL: Twelve foreign workers have been slapped with a RM1,500 compound each for violating the Covid-19 prevention procedures here, said district police chief Supt Hoo Chang Hook. He said the workers from India and Bangladesh and aged between 25 and 47 had failed to observe physical distancing in a lorry. They were also being probed for breaching the inter-district travel rule after they failed to produce a police permit letter. They allegedly committed the offence at a roadblock along KM1, Ja...

JEMPOL: Twelve foreign workers were each slapped with a RM1,500 compound for violating the Covid-19 prevention procedures here, says district police chief Supt Hoo Chang Hook.

Thousands of immigrants who live in the United States on temporary visas and traveled to India in recent weeks have been stranded there under the Biden administration’s travel ban.

Regular park-goers said the Sunday crowd had thinned out and people were generally abiding by the rules.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Phung uses training dummy Elvira at the Arbeiterwohlfahrt Vogtland (AWO). She and two other young women came to Vogtland from Vietnam in 2017 and work as skilled nursing staff. Photos: Jan Woitas/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa "Elvira, were going to bed now," says Tuoi Phung as she picks a woman up out of her wheelchair and places her in a bed. After the woman is tucked in, Phung begins to comb her hair. Elvira isnt a real senior citizen, but a doll. Shes helping to teach apprentices in Germanys eastern V...

Amid new Covid-19 restrictions, here are two new books that chronicle last year's circuit breaker.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE - While it is the number of Covid-19 cases in the community that has been going up in recent weeks, the risk of clusters being formed in migrant worker dormitories has remained, as apparent when a group of Westlite Woodlands dormitory residents tested positive last month.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Vaccine shortages, porous borders and fleeing migrant workers have nearby countries fearing that they will share India’s fate.

Kuwait to bar unvaccinated from travelling abroad Kuwait’s government is barring unvaccinated residents from travelling abroad starting later this month, the latest attempt to tame the spiraling coronavirus outbreak in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom, reports AP.  The Cabinet decision, taking effect on May 22, sparked instant anger and confusion, coming just after health authorities announced that global vaccine supply shortages would force them to delay distributi...

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