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‘Not the Kind of Life a Human Being Should Live’. Part One: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future Namibia ranks the worst for sanitation coverage in southern Africa. Over 1 million Namibians, nearly half the country...
The charges relate to Hyflux's failure to disclose US$114.5m (approximately S$153.5m) worth of bank deposits that Hyflux had undertaken not to withdraw, as restricted bank balances.
Following further investigations by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), the former Chief Executive Officer of Hyflux Ltd (Hyflux), Ms Lum Ooi Lin, was charged in court today with additional offences under the Companies Act (Cap 50, 2006 Rev. Ed.)(CA), in relation to her failure to exercise reasonable diligence in the discharge of her duties as a director.
Xhuka Shorty and his family are San, an indigenous group of people in southern Africa. Eight years ago, he and 16 members of his family were evicted from the farmland where they had lived and worked as laborers for generations.
Every day, Natalia Shaanika, 15, escorts her five younger siblings across a busy road to a landfill site to relieve themselves. As they squat – partially hidden by scraps of corrugated iron and used toilet paper – their older sister keeps watch.