By Mohd Faizal Hassan

JOHOR BAHARU (Malaysia), May 11 (Bernama) -- More than 1,500 Sarawakians
working in Singapore have been retrenched in the past few months following the

KUCHING (Malaysia), May 11 (Bernama) -- A legal framework will be formulated
to make it mandatory to notify the goverment on chemical substances available in

TASHKENT, May 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will hold talks
with his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov here Monday on ways to increase

Proposed new national workplace safety laws would weaken workers' legal protection
in some states, the ACTU says.

The Nationals remain totally opposed to an emissions trading scheme (ETS) even
though its coalition partner says it will consider supporting the federal

The opposition has accused the federal government of playing politics by leaking the
size of the deficit of the eve of the federal budget.

Kolkata, May 11 (PTI) The sex-workers of the capital city
of India's eastern state of West Bengal, who until last 15
years were "intimidated" by political parties to cast proxy

Lalit K Jha

(ATTN: RECASTS lead, headline; ADDS figures on suicide in military throughout;
UPDATES with ministry response; TRIMS)
By Sam Kim