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Singapore plans stiffer penalties, jail time for vaping offences
Bloomberg, Published on 18/08/2025
» Singapore will introduce stiffer penalties for vaping offences, including possible jail time for “severe” violations, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced on Sunday.
California court upholds Uber drivers being contractors
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - A California appeals court on Monday upheld a state law letting Uber, Lyft and other app-based, on-demand companies treat drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
Global alarm grows over China's Covid surge
AFP, Published on 29/12/2022
» BEIJING: The United States is the latest in a growing number of countries to impose restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing abruptly removed a major impediment to overseas travel despite surging Covid cases at home.
Nepal ganja campaign seeks return of Himalayan high times
AFP, Published on 29/04/2022
» KATHMANDU - Nepal's marijuana ban could soon be up in smoke, as lawmakers mull a return to the liberal drug policies that once made the Himalayan republic a popular pit stop on the overland "hippie trail".
California 'gig worker' ballot ruled unconstitutional
AFP, Published on 21/08/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - A California voter-approved referendum that lets many "gig workers" be treated as independent contractors was ruled unconstitutional on Friday, setting up more legal fights over the controversial measure.
Uber driver independence a bumpy road
AFP, Published on 25/07/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Uber driver Mae Cee scoffs at the notion, touted by the global ride-share service, that she and her peers are self-employed contractors -- and that most of them are happy with the arrangement.
An extinct tree-climbing kangaroo in a 'treeless plain'
AFP, Published on 24/03/2021
» PARIS - The most remarkable thing about the nearly perfect fossils was not that they belonged to 40-kilo kangaroos that mysteriously evolved to climb trees, though that was remarkable enough.
Pandemic keeps Uber in the red as revenue plunges
AFP, Published on 06/11/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO - Uber on Thursday reported that it lost $1.1 billion in the recently ended quarter as the pandemic walloped its ride-hailing business, while boosting its food delivery service.
California sues Uber, Lyft for driver wage theft
AFP, Published on 06/08/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO - California has filed lawsuits against Uber and Lyft for alleged wage theft by misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, the Labor Commissioner's Office said Wednesday.
China expels several US journalists in biggest crackdown in years
AFP, Published on 18/03/2020
» BEIJING - China on Wednesday expelled American journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal in the Communist government's most severe move against foreign media in recent memory.