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NEC announces executive personnel changes

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TOKYO, Jan 30, 2023 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NEC Corporation ("NEC"; TSE: 6701) today announced executive personnel changes that will become effective as of April 1, 2023, and a decision made at the meeting of the Board of Directors held on January 30, 2023, to transition NEC's structure to a Company with a Nominating Committee, etc. as well as executive personnel changes that are both subject to approval at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be convened in June 2023 ("GSM").The Board of Directors will consist of 5 inside directors and 7 outside directors, with the majority of the directors being independent outside directors. In addition, 12 new Corporate Officers will be appointed, including 2 women and 2 foreign nationals, as part of strongly promoting the strategy execution of the Mid-term Management Plan 2025 from a variety of perspectives.For the full press release, please visit www.nec.com/en/press/202301/images/3003-01-01.pdf. Copyright 2023 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)

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‘Talk to rich people nicely, you’re a poor girl’ – 2 women fined $3k each for verbally abusing auxiliary police officer

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SINGAPORE - The victim was merely doing her job but had to suffer insults such as "talk to rich people nicely, you're a poor girl". These words came from two women after an auxiliary police officer approached them for smoking outside a designated area. Koh Lee Yen, 50, and Chee Kam Fah, 49, were each fined $3,000 on Wednesday (Sept 8). They pleaded guilty each to one count of using insulting words against a public service worker. Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority records show that Koh and Chee are shareholders and directors of jewellery retailer Gold Star Resources. They also hold shares in other companies while Chee is a director in various firms. The court heard that the incident occurred on Sept 21 last year, outside shopping mall Lucky Plaza in Orchard Road. Ms Asyikah Suri Kamsari was on duty with her colleague in the area. She was authorised under the National Environment Agency to carry out enforcement action against public health offenders. She spotted Koh and Chee smoking outside the designated area and approached them for their personal particulars, so that she could issue a summons to them. The duo started verbally abusing her as she was recording Koh's detai...

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Three men investigated by police for allegedly protesting outside Myanmar Embassy in S’pore

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SINGAPORE - Three men are being investigated for purportedly participating in a public assembly without a permit outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Singapore, the police said on Sunday (Feb 14). Two of the men are Japanese nationals, aged 48 and 61, and the third is a 49-year-old Indonesian. The police were alerted at 3.45pm on Feb 10 to three men allegedly protesting outside the embassy to demonstrate "their support for the people of Myanmar". Two placards, three mobile phones and a letter were seized. The police reminded the public that "organising or participating in a public assembly without a police permit in Singapore is illegal and constitutes an offence under the Public Order Act". Organisers of illegal assemblies face fines of up to $5,000 and participants can be fined up to $3,000. "The police will not grant any permit for assemblies that advocate political causes of other countries," it said. "Foreigners visiting or living in Singapore should abide by our laws." On Feb 5, the police had warned against holding protests in Singapore related to the ongoing political events in Myanmar, saying: "The police are aware of online posts by Myanmar nationals working or residing in S...

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Serial protester on trial for protesting outside US Embassy in Singapore

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SINGAPORE - A serial protester was put on trial on Monday morning (Jan 18) for protesting outside the US Embassy here. Singaporean Yan Jun, 45, allegedly held a one-man protest outside the embassy in Napier Road on the afternoon of Nov 2 last year. The prosecution proceeded on one charge of taking part in a public assembly without a permit and another charge of behaving in a disorderly manner. A third charge of refusing to answer a public servant was stood down. Yan was placed on trial after he did not indicate his position on the charges. He did not respond when asked by District Judge Ng Cheng Thiam for his position on trial. In the prosecution's opening address, Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicholas Lai told the court Yan sent an e-mail addressed to the United States Embassy at about 4.10pm that day, declaring his intention to protest outside at 5pm. DPP Lai said Yan showed up just before 5pm, displaying several placards. Yan allegedly had placards claiming that the US government spied on him in Johor Baru and that Changi Prison is a slave camp, as well as demands for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to step down. The court was told the protest lasted about 15 minutes, after which the...

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Police disperse crowd gathered outside school uniform shop in Ang Mo Kio

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SINGAPORE - Police had to disperse a crowd which gathered outside a uniform shop in Ang Mo Kio on Tuesday morning (Dec 29), many of whom were there to buy school uniforms for their children before school starts next week. Many parents had arrived at the Jeep Sing Fashion store around 8am, two hours before its opening, for a queue ticket. By around 10am, more than 100 people had formed a snaking queue to get into the shop located at Block 4012, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, with some ignoring the one metre safe distancing requirement. Six police officers were then spotted outside the uniform shop urging parents to stand further apart, and to encourage some to leave. Around 70 people who had queue tickets were left in the line. On its website, the shop advised customers not to turn up as all queue tickets for the day had been issued. Mr Shio Kumar, 46, who works in the marine industry, waited two hours before he finally got his three-year-old daughter her kindergarten uniform. Schools reopen on Jan 4. He had waited in line for three hours on Monday, but was told to return another day because of the size of the crowd. Madam Sharon Yee, 33, could not get a queue ticket to buy uniforms for her ...