Daily Briefing: Shopee to enter Mexico online market via app launch; 7 workplace fatalities this month ‘extremely alarming': Zaqy Mohamad

And three former Shell staff charged with bribing vessel inspectors.

From DealStreetAsia:

Shopee, the e-commerce arm of Southeast Asia’s Sea Ltd, has launched an app for Mexico, the place it plans to supply on-line gross sales in what could be its second market within the Americas.

Shopee, the most important e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, based on market researchers, launched a small presence in Brazil in 2019 as a pilot initiative of its cross-border workforce, and has since been scaling up operations.

Though sources in January stated the e-commerce arm was evaluating the potential of different Latin American markets, the corporate had not but introduced plans for different international locations.

The enlargement to Mexico, Latin America’s second-largest financial system, might mark a significant new progress alternative in cross-border gross sales, a market already explored by buying app Want.

In accordance with a preview of the app on the Apple web site in Mexico, Shopee will provide free transport all through Mexico, providing objects together with electronics, garments, toys, and residential items.

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From ChannelNewsAsia:

There have been seven deadly office accidents to this point in February, an “extremely alarming” determine in comparison with 30 deaths for the entire of final yr, stated Senior Minister of State for Manpower Zaqy Mohamad on 22 February.

It units a “worrying trend” for the yr forward, stated Mohamad, including that the accidents occurred throughout numerous industries together with development, transportation and storage and marine.

The spate of accidents prompted the Office Security and Well being Council and the Singapore Contractors Affiliation Ltd to name for a security time-out on using equipment.

A security time-out includes reviewing actions and protocols.

In a Fb publish, Mohamad urged employers and staff to take a step again to reassess their workplaces and security procedures.

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From ChannelNewsAsia:

Three former Shell Jap Petroleum staff who're accused of being concerned in a scheme to steal gas from the petroleum large’s Pulau Bukom refinery had been charged in court docket on 23 February with corruption offences.

The boys are accused of bribing staff of assorted surveying firms engaged by Shell to examine vessels which Shell provided gas to, stated the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB). They had been beforehand additionally charged over their alleged involvement in misappropriating gas from Shell Bukom.

Former Shell employees members Juandi Pungot, 44 and Muzaffar Ali Khan Muhamad Akram, 40, allegedly conspired to offer bribes totalling about $121,600 (US$91,900) to 10 staff of assorted surveying firms between 2014 and 2017. These got as "rewards for refraining from precisely reporting the quantity of gasoil loaded onto vessels which they had been engaged to examine”, stated CPIB in a press launch.

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