EU court rules against jobless immigrants
(11 Nov) - European Union countries can block jobless immigrants from receiving welfare benefits, Europe's top court said on Tuesday, in a ruling likely to aid British Prime Minister David Cameron's efforts to tackle so-called 'welfare tourism'. Under growing pressure from the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) ahead of a...
13 die after Indian doc used rusty equipment to operate
Bhubaneswar, India (12 Nov) - Nem Bai was told getting a tubectomy would be an easy process - that she'd be home by sunset, a few hundred rupees richer and back to work in the fields within two days. A hospital in India Instead, the 35-year-old mother-of-five was incapacitated within hours of having the surgery at a mass sterilization...
Courts must uphold moderate freedom of speech
Roy Ngerng With regard to blogger Roy Ngerng's recent legal episode, it is important for us to understand that Singapore courts have a genuine cause for thwarting the abuse of the constitutional right to freedom of speech ("Blogger Roy Ngerng found to have defamed PM Lee"; last Saturday). If we were to allow anyone to write,...
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