
Canada warns Hongkongers about forcing maids to join them on holiday
Franco Orr (left) and Leticia Sarmiento (Canada, 21 Oct) - Hong Kong holidaymakers risk arrest for human trafficking, an offence with a potential life sentence, if they force maids to join them on Canadian vacations - regardless of whether the helper's visa has expired - Canada's federal police have warned. The caution comes...

Workers in Silicon Valley case get class-action status
(Oct 26) - Programmers and other technical employees whose wages were allegedly kept artificially low by widespread no-hire pacts between Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel are being granted class action status. California district court judge Lucy Koh ruled that the antitrust concerns of the "overarching conspiracy" between 2005...

S’pore ready to assist in global currency rigging probe
MAS's probe marks the latest development in a global crackdown on rate-rigging.(25 Oct) - Singapore's central bank said it was ready to assist in investigations into alleged manipulation of foreign exchange rates, potentially widening a probe in the $5.3 trillion-a-day FX market that already involves authorities in the United...
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