immigration

TGS recipients from overseas are bonded to work in a Singaporean entity for three years afte

Now that elections are over, the government will refocus efforts on job creation amid the Covid-19 recession.

(Aug 14): If Sherman Kwek sounds annoyed, he has his reasons — 2.9 million sf worth of reasons.

(July 13): They start sometimes at dawn and work frequently into the night, an army of old workers manoeuvring carts around the streets of Hong Kong. Their spines bent with back trouble or simply the burdens of life-long toil, they’re collecting cardboa

TOKYO (July 10): While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners.

WASHINGTON (May 4): The House passed a shutdown-avoiding US$1.17 trillion ($1.63 trillion) spending bill that President Donald Trump plans to sign even though Democrats were able to defeat most of his wish list, including money for a wall at the US-Mexi

WELLINGTON (April 27): An unprecedented influx of immigrants is exacerbating a housing shortage and stretching infrastructure such as schools and hospitals, sparking heated political debate around the issue ahead of this year's general election.

(MARCH 21): President Donald Trump and Congress have said they want to overhaul policies that allow companies to bring employees from overseas to the US But the application deadline for the most controversial visa program is the first week of April, which

DALLAS (Jan 31): As new US travel rules plunged several large American airports into chaos, lawyers for some travelers who are long-term legal residents said the government had urged them to relinquish their status as a requirement for reentering the coun