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immigrants

International

Labor unions sue US over monitoring social media of visa holders

The annualised population growth rate over the last five years is also higher at 1.5%, compared with the 0.5% recorded in the preceding five-year period between 2015 and 2020.
Singapore

Singapore’s population hits record 6.11 million, boosted by foreign workers

Migrants picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel from France, disembark from a Border Force vessel after it arrived in Dover, Britain, Sep 19, 2025. British interior minister Shabana Mahmood will on Monday announce that migrants would have to make social security contributions, claim no benefits, have a clean criminal record and volunteer in their community in order to stay.
International

UK plans tougher rules for migrants seeking to stay in country

People protesting against a new immigrant detention centre in the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, July 11, 2025. As the Trump administration seeks to deport up to 1 million people annually, detention centres, prisons and holding cells are being constructed around the country.
International

Polls show falling US support for Trump’s deportations

Active participation by private property developers and more migration will help in Singapore's urban transformation.
Opinion & Features
COMMENTARY

Draft Master Plan 2025 builds capacity; its success hinges on developers stepping up, skilled migrants bringing dynamism

Pope Francis has made welcoming migrants a key theme of his nearly 12-year papacy, and he has previously criticised Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
International

Pope Francis says Trump’s immigration raids would be a ‘disgrace’

FILE PHOTO: A view of East Hastings street in Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File Photo
International

Canada pulls refugee welcome mat, launches ads warning asylum claims hard

Incoming “border czar” Tom Homan is expected to mobilise agencies across the US government to help him deport record numbers of immigrants.
International

Trump to appoint former ICE director Tom Homan as US ‘border czar’

Chairman John Kim (centre in red, beside the man in black) founded the pro-Trump Strong Republic of Korea-US Alliance in defiance to what he believes are communist threats from China, North Korea and Russia – countries that surround South Korea.
International
US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Asian-American voter patterns in US elections hint at political shifts and trends to watch

As of 2026, immigrants who voluntarily return to their home countries would be eligible to receive up to US$34,000, the right-wing government, which is propped up by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, told a press conference.
International

Sweden to pay immigrants up to US$34,000 to return

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