After a few years of belt-tightening, millions of Chinese civil servants are expected to bring home a much-delayed pay rise ahead of Lunar New Year later this month. Several civil servants and workers at public institutions in China said they had received notification from their finance or human resources departments about an increase in their … Read more
A healthy lifestyle is always a good thing to strive for, and one of the best indicators of that is a fit body. However, some concerns have cropped up recently over claims that the Public Service Department (JPA) is making it mandatory for all civil servants to maintain a healthy body mass index (BMI). Is … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR: More than half of Malaysia’s 1.3 million civil servants, or 688,663 (52.9%), do not own their own homes, says Dr Zaliha Mustafa. The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) said the majority, with 431,277, are from the implementation group. “Currently, approximately 1,300,680 civil servants are still in service, while 950,356 have … Read more
1. China hit by sudden rise of sea water level ‘never seen in history’ Late Monday evening, along the coast of northeastern China’s Bohai Sea, the water began to rise as it normally does when tide comes in. But the water kept rising. It quickly flooded inland areas, prompting emergency responses and shattering official records. … Read more
PETALING JAYA: The government will implement a salary restructuring exercise through the Public Service Remuneration System (SSPA) for civil servants, starting Dec 1, 2024. This will involve a 15% adjustment for executives and professionals and 7% for top management, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim while tabling Budget 2025 in the Dewan Rakyat on … Read more
There is a lot of hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and technology sparking a revival of economic growth globally. As Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow said in 1987 about the productivity puzzle, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” In recent years, growth has slowed everywhere due to productivity declines, … Read more
Many young people in China have been “lying flat” – or doing the bare minimum to get by – in recent years, or at least talking about it. Local government cadres have meanwhile been accused of lying flat at work. The social movement known as tang ping in Chinese grew out of a meme that … Read more
Under the new system, China’s 8 million civil servants and 32 million employees of public institutions must pay 8 per cent of their salaries into the pension scheme, while their employers contribute 20 per cent. Previously, public sector workers did not have to make any contributions and were paid up to 80 per cent of … Read more
Delayed air passengers, disgruntled phone customers and even hungry people craving a slice of pizza increasingly find their pleas to private companies being answered by artificial intelligence. Soon Canadians who need to reach out to the federal government could also find themselves talking to an employee who’s been helped by non-human assistants. Ottawa is working … Read more
The Quebec government is requesting that Supreme Court Justice Mahmud Jamal recuse himself from hearing the challenge to the province’s secularism law because he was board president for one of the plaintiffs. In letters sent to the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada, Attorney General of Quebec Bernard Roy, the Mouvement laïque québécois, as … Read more
