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The Bangladeshi garment industry wage board agrees to increase minimum wages following five days of worker protests and clashes with police. Workers demand ৳30,000 (US$240) monthly, up from ৳12,500 (US$100), while the board has not specified the increase.
Disasters and accidents
A motorized cargo boat carrying a load of copra capsizes off Jomalig, Quezon, Philippines. A search and rescue operation is later launched for seven missing individuals aboard.
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The Singaporean parliament amends the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014, introducing arrest powers, permitting trials without defendants present, and increasing maximum fines tenfold to S$20 million (US$15 million) following widespread air pollution from Indonesian wildfires.
Law and crime
Philippine authorities seize a 200-kilogram (440 lb) shipment of methamphetamine, whose origin is traced to Laos, at the Manila International Container Port. The shipment had arrived six days after local police in Laos found the similar contraband, supposed to be brought to the Philippines, on October 1.
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