Amir Hussain

More cleaners to get S$60 raise

By Amir Hussain -

11 June

SINGAPORE — More than 50 outsourced cleaners working at the NTUC Centre and Ang Mo Kio Hub, which are both owned by labour movement-related entities, will receive the National...

Labour productivity down 2.6% last year

By Amir Hussain -

06 June

Labour productivity dipped 2.6 per cent last year, amid slower economic growth and continued high employment creation. According to the Manpower Ministry’s (MOM) Report on Wage...

Smaller wage gains in 2012

By Amir Hussain -

06 June

SINGAPORE — The National Wages Council’s (NWC) call last year for a minimum S$50 pay increase to employees earning less than S$1,000 a month has resulted in rank-and-file...

Harmonising social and traditional media

By Amir Hussain -

06 June

As the former National Director of Special Events for Mr Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign in 2008, Mr Roger Fisk had a key role in developing its mobilisation of social...

Regulation aimed at ‘a level of responsibility’ for those reporting news

By Amir Hussain -

05 June

SINGAPORE — The Media Development Authority’s (MDA) new licensing regime for online news sites came under intense scrutiny from callers on Channel NewsAsia’s Talking Point...

Singapore backs ‘no first use of force’ agreement

By Amir Hussain -

03 June

SINGAPORE — With rising nationalism in Asia and as tensions run high over the recent shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard in the South China Sea,...

Vietnam will be a ‘friend and reliable partner’ to all nations

By Amir Hussain -

01 June

SINGAPORE — With two-thirds of all maritime trade projected to be shipped across the South China Sea, a single disruption or interruption would have unforeseeable consequences...

Tey prepared to lie, feign illness: State

By Amir Hussain -

30 May

SINGAPORE — With no sentencing precedents for the sex-for-grades case involving former National University of Singapore (NUS) law professor Tey Tsun Hang, the prosecution...