Tighter Covid-19 measures for travellers from Vietnam, business travel pass holders entering SingaporeSINGAPORE - Visitors from Vietnam will face tighter restrictions when entering Singapore from Saturday (Feb 13) due to an increase in Covid-19 cases in the country, in the latest border measures announced on Tuesday by the Ministry of…

To further reduce the risk of transmission from newly arrived migrant workers into the workplace, the Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) has decided to extend the post-Stay-Home Notice (SHN) 7-day testing regime to all newly arrived Work Permit and S Pass workers in Construction, Marine and Process (CMP) sectors from higher-risk countries/regions1.…

Workers at a construction site in Singapore on Sep 28, 2020. (File photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)SINGAPORE: About 190 employers were found underpaying their foreign workers every year between 2015 and 2019, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Tuesday (Feb 2).She was responding to parliamentary questions from NCMP Leong Mun Wai (PSP) and MP Muhamad Faisal…

Employers may be less inclined to apply for EPs via the ICT route and instead advertise on MyCareersFuture.sgFOREIGN employees of multinational corporations who are posted to the company's Singapore branch as an intra-corporate transferee can no longer bring their family members with them via dependant's passes or long-term visit passes. Intra-corporate…

SINGAPORE - The Republic reported a nine-month high of 42 imported cases on Sunday night (Jan 10), more than half of whom were work permit holders who arrived from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Five of the 24 work permit holders were foreign domestic workers.The other 18 cases comprised two…

Straits Times associate editor Chua Mui Hoong's lessons from the year of the coronavirus (Home truths in the year of coronavirus, Jan 1) hit close to home for me, especially the part on the plight of migrant workers. Migrant workers belong to a side of Singapore that is often unseen. They…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmXs6AiLEg1. EligibilityThe traveller must be a pass holder [work pass holder and dependant(s)] who have obtained an entry approval from the relevant government agencies to enter Singapore. Singapore Work Pass Holders and dependants must obtain MOM’s entry approval to enter Singapore.2. Preparation for entry into SingaporeUp to 60 calendar days…

SINGAPORE — Singapore on Saturday (Jan 2) recorded 33 new cases of Covid-19, all of which were imported. This is the highest single-day tally since Sept 15, when there were 34 cases reported. The number of coronavirus cases in Singapore stands at 58,662. In an update on Saturday night, the Ministry…

There were 30 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Thursday noon (Dec 31), taking Singapore's total to 58,599. There were 25 imported cases who were placed on stay-home notices or isolated on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There were five new community cases and none from worker's dormitories.On…

SINGAPORE - Since March this year, Mr Mohamad Syakirin Ahmad has spent only 15 days with his wife and two daughters in Johor Baru. The 27-year-old Malaysian, who has been working in Singapore as a courier for the last three years, used to commute across the Causeway daily but now has…