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Singapore SMEs still lack a sustainable mindset in SEA By Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have ranked amongst the lowest in Southeast Asia to adopt sustainable operations Singapore has long made a name for embracing emerging technologies and is now the go-to hub for firms looking to springboard into the APAC region’s various markets. But despite outstripping their Southeast Asian neighbors across multiple tech-driven sectors ranging from finance to governance, Singapore’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) rank the lowest in the region when it comes to adopting s...

Rhetoric, as he talks about sending as many as 15,000 troops to that u.s./mexico border. the president is now suggesting those troops could shoot any migrant who throws rocks at him. >> they want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. i told them consider is a rifle. when they throw rocks like they did at the mexico military and police, i say consider it a rifle. >> never mind that the president is recommending the use of deadly force in the chaos of these large crowds of people, but there are children in this caravan and, no, they are not americans but they are children. li...

When general electric she got to the u.s. she was told it's $75,000. and she could work her way out of it. but every time she used a condom, every time a bar of soap came her way they would take that off. you owe us money for this, you owe us money for this so every month -- and she was charged rent. she was charged gas for the car, she was charged for electricity so all these fake charges would come in so she could never pay back this debt. another young lady who we worked with actually said she would pray over and over again that the next man would just kill her. she just said every time a m...

Do that and it will take you a year." so she gets there, the doors closed, there's barbed wire, then she's told "you're going to have sex with these men and if you don't do it here's a picture of your brother in university and something will happen if you don't do this." >> powell says massage parlor girls like may lin find themselves paralyzed by the fear of very real consequences should they choose to run from their captors. >> the real motivating factors for keeping these girls enslaved and quiet, the real threat is about their own family. your family will be shamed if you don't pay back th...

Massage parlors like this 19-year-old who we'll call may lin. >> she was from a very, very rural town in china. she was an unwanted child by her family. they really didn't want a girl. she was treated like a domestic slave growing up anyway and an uncle came to her and said "i have an idea, why don't you work at this really fancy restaurant in new york city, you'll make all this money and then we'll be so happy and rich and you won't have to worry about anything. and you will you have to do is pay the woman $2,000." of course she didn't have $2,000 so a woman comes and meets her and says "i'll...