Friday #sgroundup: Pro-Singaporean hiring rules kick in after backlash

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New pro-Singaporean labour laws kick in after backlash
 Office workers pictured during their lunch breaks at Raffles financial district in Singapore on October 30, 20 …
New hiring rules favouring Singaporeans kicked in Friday as part of measures aimed at addressing citizens' complaints about foreigners stealing jobs from them.

Singapore-based companies needing professional workers now have to advertise on an online "Jobs Bank" for at least 14 days before they can seek an employment pass for a foreigner.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pro-singaporean-hiring-rules-kick-backlash-072459595--finance.html

Thousands of workers forced to walk after Johor-Singapore Causeway toll hikes kick in
 File photo taken in May 2009 shows Malaysia's southern state of Johor, which is linked by a causeway to the …
The new toll rates at Johor's Customs, Immigration and Quarantine Complex (CIQ) started on Friday. The rates are RM9.70 (SGD$3.80) and RM6.80 (SGD$2.60) for in-bound and out-bound cars respectively.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/toll-rates-johor-ciq-today-164639748.html

Factory bus drivers refused to drive into the complex in protest against the toll hike, and demanded authorities to address the matter immediately.

The incident caused thousands of people working in Singapore to cross the Causeway by foot.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/bus-drivers-protest-against-toll-022411397.html
 
Gas blast in Taiwan kills 25, injures 267, topples buildings
 The five explosions tore up the streets leaving a scene of carnage
A series of explosions caused by a gas leak killed 25 people and injured 267 in Taiwan's second city on Friday, sending flames shooting 15 storeys into the air, setting ablaze entire blocks and reducing small shops to rubble.
 
Rescue authorities said police and soldiers had been drafted in to help firefighters after the midnight explosion and blaze gutted a district in the port city of Kaohsiung packed with shops and apartment buildings.
 
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/taiwan-gas-blast-kills-15-injures-243-local-010245250.html
 
International probe to begin at MH17 crash site in Ukraine
 Plus de 60 experts sont à pied d'oeuvre dans l'est de l'Ukraine sur le site où s'est écrasé le …
International experts will attempt Friday to begin a stalled investigation at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as Ukrainian forces threaten to resume their offensive against pro-Russian rebels after a one-day halt.
 
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-military-announces-day-long-halt-offensive-east-081207986.html
 
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak also said that he will announce a national mourning day for the tragedy once the remains arrive in the country.
 
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/malaysia-hold-national-mourning-day-mh17-victims-says-013846139.html
 
Israel, Palestinian militant groups begin 3-day Gaza truce
 Palestinians walks across the rubble of destroyed buildings and homes in the Al-Salam neighbourhood of Jabalia, …
A three-day ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip went into effect on Friday, with negotiators due to travel to Cairo to discuss a longer-term solution.
 
The 72-hour break announced in a joint statement by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was the most ambitious attempt so far to end more than three weeks of fighting, and followed mounting international alarm over a rising Palestinian civilian death toll.
 
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/israel-accepts-proposal-72-hour-gaza-ceasefire-official-001936417.html

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