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Tackle low wages, lack of quality investments to stem Malaysia’s brain drain: Analysts

Low wages, as a result of company shareholders and investors taking the lion’s share of profits instead of distributing them fairly to employees, are a major factor in pushing…

  • Published: March 12, 20249:16 am
  • Author Azril Annuar
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Proposal for buffer zone at Malaysia-Thai border presented to Home Ministry

An official said the construction of a buffer zone is "very important" because enforcement agencies that control the border face smuggling activities.

  • Published: March 11, 20242:38 pm
  • Author The Nation
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License suspension notices sent to some 5,000 defiant trainee doctors

As of Friday, 11,994 trainee doctors at 100 teaching hospitals had left their worksites, accounting for some 93 percent of all junior doctors, according to the ministry.

  • Published: March 11, 20242:22 pm
  • Author Ann Asianews Network
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China’s top political advisory body holds closing meeting of annual session

A resolution on a work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee among other proposals were approved at the meeting.

  • Published: March 11, 202411:38 am
  • Author Ann Asianews Network
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Pressured to be ‘best moms,’ women say it’s not just about money

To increase total fertility rates, experts urge that a change in society is needed along with subsidies.

  • Published: March 11, 202411:25 am
  • Author Lee Jung-joo
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New law has encouraged more Indonesians to report sexual violence: Watchdog

The National Commission on Violence Against Women received almost 800 reports on online and physical sexual harassment last year, around four times the 200 reported rape cases it…

  • Published: March 11, 20249:39 am
  • Author Nina A. Loasana
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Is South Korea violating ILO rules in the fight against junior doctors?

Forcing doctors to work is acceptable as the population would be on the verge of a medical crisis otherwise, even with a series of stopgap measures, the government claimed.

  • Published: March 11, 20249:23 am
  • Author So Ji-hyeon
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Malaysia’s opposition leader Muhyiddin dares Anwar to vacate seats of Bersatu defectors

Malaysia’s opposition coalition has called for six parliamentary seats and one Selangor state assembly seat to be made vacant. This follows the representatives’ move to switch…

  • Published: March 11, 20249:22 am
  • Author Azril Annuar
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Hong Kong issues new national security law bill with tougher jail terms

Life imprisonment may be imposed on those who are found guilty of treason, insurrection, incitement of members of Chinese armed forces to mutiny, collusion with an external force…

  • Published: March 8, 20242:01 pm
  • Author Wang Zhan and Shadow Li
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Abortion in S. Korea: neither illegal nor legal

Despite 17 proposed bills in the National Assembly to allow safe abortions, discussions have stalled with no progress. Without new laws specifying the way forward, women cannot…

  • Published: March 8, 202412:37 pm
  • Author Lee Jaeeun

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