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Medical glove exports face more delays amid shipping container shortage
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's medical glove makers face weeks of delays in delivering products to customers abroad due to a global shortage of shipping containers, hampering their ability to meet demand during the coronavirus crisis, industry officials said.
Surging shipping rates pose new headwind for global economy
SHOCKS to supply chains are engulfing a wider swath of the global economy as the pandemic rages on, threatening to stifle Asia’s trade-led recovery just as soaring freight rates make it harder for businesses to weather another year like 2020.
Thai rice exports to stay low this year
BANGKOK: Thailand’s rice exports are headed for another gloomy year after sinking to the lowest volume in two decades in 2020, as a global shortage of shipping containers reduce the prospects of increasing shipments.
Glovemaker hit with 30 charges
PETALING JAYA: Brightway Holdings and two of its subsidiaries in Selangor will be facing 30 charges in court for alleged offences under the Workers’ MiniÂmum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 (Act 446), says the Human Resources Ministry.
Glove maker Brightway, subsidiaries to face 30 charges over worker housing
PETALING JAYA: Glove maker Brightway Holdings and two of its subsidiaries will be facing 30 charges under the Workers' Minimum Standards of Housing and Amenities Act 1990 (Act 446), says the Human Resource Ministry.
Rice smuggling still rampant in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Rice smuggÂling is still rampant at border areas despite regular enforcement by the Agriculture and Food Industries Ministry’s Padi and Rice Regulatory Division.
‘We have proof', says Saravanan after glovemaker denies workers live in squalid conditions
PETALING JAYA: Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan has dismissed a glove-manufacturing company's denial that hundreds of its workers are living in metal shipping containers in squalid conditions, which he had labelled as "modern slavery".
Glove factory told to close
PETALING JAYA: A glove-manufacturing company in Kajang, Selangor, has been ordered to shut for seven days for failure to comply with Covid-19 preventative measures.
Glovemaker denies its workers are living in shipping containers
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): A Malaysian glovemaker has denied hundreds of its workers are living in metal shipping containers in squalid conditions that Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan described as modern slavery.
Kajang glovemaker suspended, workers found living in shipping containers
PETALING JAYA: A glove company in Kajang has been ordered to shut down for seven days for failing to comply with Covid-19 preventative measures, with media reports saying that its workers were shockingly found living in shipping containers.
