Job portal for seniors, intergenerational cafe among ideas to improve ageing experience in S’pore
SINGAPORE - A specially tailored platform to help older people find meaningful employment could do the job to improve the ageing experience in Singapore. Other proposals made during a Citizens' Panel on Saturday (Oct 23) include a buddy system for senior workers, an intergenerational storytelling scheme and a cafe with a focus on intergenerational bonding. The panel was held by the health, manpower, and culture, community and youth ministries as part of the Ministerial Committee of Ageing's efforts to refresh the existing Action Plan on Successful Ageing that was launched in 2015. The committee wants to ensure the plan continues to be relevant to current and future senior citizens and address changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. Those aged 65 and above in Singapore make up 11.7 per cent of the population, according to mid-2021 estimates. Second Minister for Health Masagos Zulkifli attended the fourth and final panel session on Saturday, where nine projects along the themes of employment and volunteerism were presented. A total of 46 participants in the panel spent four weekends on the four sessions developing their ideas with input from senior citizens, industry experts ...
Fed limits trading by top officials in wake of ethics scandal
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - The Federal Reserve will ban top officials from buying individual stocks and bonds, as well as limit active trading, after an embarrassing scandal that led two officials to resign and clouded chair Jerome Powell's path to renomination. "These tough new rules raise the bar high in order to assure the public we serve that all of our senior officials maintain a single-minded focus on the public mission of the Federal Reserve," Mr Powell said in the statement on Thursday (Oct 21). The Fed's action marks its most significant response yet to recent revelations over trading last year by a few top policymakers as the central bank fought to protect the US economy from Covid-19. While Mr Powell's critics seized on the disclosures as ammunition to block his potential renomination by United States President Joe Biden and demanded an investigation, the chair had said little beyond assuring Americans that the rules would be thoroughly reviewed. Senator Elizabeth Warren, among his most vocal opponents, has asked the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to look into whether any insider trading rules were breached. Critics also seized on Mr Powell's own 2020 financial discl...
AppsFlyer Welcomes New Senior Marketing Director; Strengthening Its Commitment to APAC
SINGAPORE, Jul 21, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Today, AppsFlyer, the global attribution and marketing analytics leader, announces that strategic technology marketing veteran Sam Chiu will head AppsFlyer's marketing team as its new Senior Director of Marketing, Asia-Pacific (APAC). Sam will report to Ronen Mense, President and Managing Director, AppsFlyer APAC.Sam Chiu, Senior Director of Marketing, APAC, AppsFlyerThis latest appointment follows the company's recent senior hire of ex-Oracle Sales Vice President Joen van Driel as AppsFlyer's VP of Sales for APAC earlier this year. With app install ad spend in the region poised to reach $61 billion in 2022, these key hires highlight AppsFlyer's strengthening commitment to the region, signaling its plan to cement its leadership position in APAC's marketing attribution and analytics space.Sam Chiu, Senior Director of Marketing, APAC, AppsFlyer, said: "AppsFlyer is experiencing phenomenal growth, not only in APAC but globally, and I am honored to work alongside talented individuals in the team to further advance our marketing efforts and assert AppsFlyer's dominance in the region. AppsFlyer is well-positioned to help market...
Singpost senior V-P charged with corruption and deceiving company into paying him $840,000 in wages
SINGAPORE - A senior vice-president (V-P) of Singpost allegedly cheated the company for more than four years, getting them to pay him more than $800,000 in salaries. Liang An Wey, 46, is also alleged to have attempted to get $1 million in bribes from a contractor after he was made a senior V-P of the company. On Tuesday (May 11), he was slapped with one charge for corruption and another for cheating. According to court documents, Liang deceived Singpost into believing he was employed by private firm GSM Holdings between 2012 and June 2013 at a salary of $14,500. He allegedly submitted the false information in his job application to Singpost in 2013. Singpost then paid him a monthly salary of $15,000 for a total of 56 months. The total amount he was paid in the position over the period was $840,000. In March 2015, as a senior V-P of Singpost, he attempted to obtain a bribe of $1 million from the chief operating officer of Bintai Kindenko, a mechanical and engineering contractor. The bribe was allegedly to have been in return for him recommending Bintai Kindenko as a sub-contractor for the construction works involved in the redevelopment of the Singpost Centre Retail Mall and works r...
Dean of SMU law school among three new Senior Counsel appointed
SINGAPORE - Three individuals were appointed as Senior Counsel at the opening ceremony of the new legal year on Monday (Jan 11). They are: Professor Goh Yihan, dean of Singapore Management University's (SMU) School of Law; Ms Kristy Tan of the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC); and Mr Abraham Vergis, managing director of Providence Law Asia. Prof Goh joined the National University of Singapore as an assistant professor in 2011. He moved to SMU in 2014, and was appointed the dean of SMU's School of Law in 2017. Before academia, he was a justices' law clerk and later became the first-ever senior justices' law clerk at the Supreme Court of Singapore. In 2008, he was appointed an assistant registrar. Ms Tan was an equity partner in law firm Allen & Gledhill LLP before joining the AGC in 2018. She now serves as the head of the advocacy group in the organisation, dealing with litigation matters involving civil, commercial, criminal and public law. Mr Vergis, a lawyer with more than 21 years of legal experience, handles both local cases and international arbitration matters. He has also served as the chairman of the Law Society's Criminal Legal Aid Scheme Committee, defending criminal cas...