Business and economy
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 ($100), while the board has not specified the increase. (AFP)
Health and environment
2026 Southeast Asian haze
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. (AFP)
Law and crime
Philippine authorities seize a 200-kilogram (440 lb) shipment of crystal meth, whose origin is traced in Laos, at the Manila International Container Port. The shipment had arrived six days after local police in Laos likewise found the same contraband on a Philippine-bound private plane on October 1. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Science and technology
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope for studying gamma-ray bursts, re-enters Earth's atmosphere over Sumatra, ending a nearly 22-yearlong mission. (NASA)
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