Tag: Workers
S Korean industrial zone workers head home
Seven remaining South Korean workers at a joint industrial zone in North Korea have returned home, completing a withdrawal from the complex after months...
Where have China’s workers gone?
Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang are taking over China’s leadership at a time when growth has slackened and labor issues have become more complex....
Three Kurdish women shot dead in Paris
Three Kurdish women have been shot dead overnight inside the Kurdish Information Centre in Paris, including a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Their...
KP NGOs protest killing of workers
Expressing concern over increasing violence against workers and volunteers of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Civil Society Network on Thursday arranged protest gatherings in Peshawar...
Decision to restore petrol pump brings hope to CDA workers
After six years of shutting down, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to restore a petrol pump to generate funds for the welfare...
KMC workers protest against non-payment of salaries
The employees of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) on Monday staged a protest against non-payment of salaries here as thousands of employees have not been...
Altaf pardons party workers
MQM Chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday announced a general pardon for all those party workers and office-bearers whose membership was suspended due to minor...
S&P 500 finishes at 5-year high on economic data
The gains on the S&P 500 pushed the index to its highest close since December 2007 and its biggest weekly gain since December 2011.
Most...
PCSN condemns killing of Swabi NGO workers
The Pakhtunkhwa Civil Society Network (PCSN) on Wednesday condemned killing of NGO workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and demanded compensation for the victims’ families. Representatives...
Indian tea workers burn boss to death in Assam
Hundreds of tea plantation workers have set alight their boss's bungalow in north-east India, burning to death the owner and his wife, officials say....
How the Grinch stole Christmas!
Hopes of scores of Christian staffers at the Punjab Civil Secretariat were dashed on Saturday as no senior bureaucrat or any political figure showed...
Iowa court says bosses can fire irresistible workers
A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a...
OIC secy general condemns killing of polio workers in Pakistan
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has condemned the killing of health workers engaged with the polio vaccination...
Ram Leela shoot disrupted over workers’ non-payment
The shooting of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram Leela was disrupted briefly on Sunday evening, after members of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees...
Aseefa castigates violence against polio workers
Ambassador for Polio Eradication Aseefa Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned the violence against polio workers that killed four female workers and a 14 years...
Ban Ki-moon condemns attacks on polio workers
Ambassador Masood Khan in a meeting with UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, at the UN headquarters Wednesday, reiterated Pakistan’s strong commitment towards complete eradication...
PPP has taken several steps for workers’ welfare, says Kaira
Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Monday that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government is a pro-worker dispensation which has taken...
