CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (BLOOMBERG) – On a crisp morning last October, a few dozen students with wildly diverse backgrounds and expertise filed into the red-brick building of Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Three things united them: they were young, they wanted to do good and they were all staggeringly wealthy. The group was attending a joint course […]

HONG KONG (REUTERS) – Hong Kong geared for more protests, including strikes, transport go-slows and even picnics, against a proposed extradition law that would allow people to be sent to China for trial, even as the city’s leader vowed on Tuesday (June 11) to push ahead with the bill. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam’s defiant […]

SINGAPORE – A construction company was fined $44,500 on Tuesday (June 11) for carrying out excavation works without approval last year and damaging a water main at the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE). National water agency PUB said in a statement that Megastone Holdings had carried out the works on March 27 last year without an approved […]

SINGAPORE – A 26-year-old employee of alfresco bar 1-Altitude employee fell to his death in a construction manhole on the roof of One Raffles Place just after midnight on Sunday (June 9). He was reportedly a security officer at the bar. Both the police and the Manpower Ministry are investigating. The police told The Straits Times the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British politicians and regulators piled pressure on Neil Woodford following the suspension of his flagship fund a week ago, while investors pulled money from his other products and a major backer distanced itself from the frozen fund. Woodford Investment Management suspended its equity income fund on June 3, a rare move for […]

SINGAPORE – Former Channel 8 actor Joshua Ang and his wife nearly suffered the loss of their newborn son last August, after the week-old infant was allegedly overfed by their confinement nanny. The couple also found out that the nanny had cut the teats of the milk bottle, “large enough to fit a straw through”. […]

MELAKA – Malaysia has the right not to extradite controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik to India, if it feels he is not going to be accorded justice, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday (June 10). Indian national Mr Zakir is wanted by New Delhi to face money laundering charges. He has espoused controversial views […]

Extradition law to proceed despite mass protest One day after an estimated one million people took to the streets against a proposed extradition law, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam was defiant, declaring that the Bill will progress as planned. The Bill will be read a second time in the legislature on June 12 as […]

The Philippines has a surplus of more than two million kilos of mangoes following a bumper harvest. The country’s agriculture secretary said the extra mangoes were the result of a “dry spell caused El Niño”. The El Niño phenomenon occurs naturally and has a major influence on weather patterns around the world. The government has […]

HONG KONG — Hundreds of thousands protested in Hong Kong on Sunday against a government plan that would allow extraditions to mainland China. The mass demonstration was among the largest in Hong Kong’s history, and another sign of rising fear and anger over the erosion of the civil liberties that have long set the semiautonomous […]