Singapore politician seen edging out of bankruptcy
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A veteran Singapore opposition politician has taken a small step toward clearing himself from bankruptcy by paying legal costs, a report says.
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PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia  - Malaysian rebel politician  Anwar Ibrahim, freed from jail last week, sought on Monday to  clear the way for his return to active politics when his  lawyers moved to have his criminal record wiped clean.
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resign along with three other Likud cabinet members unless the prime minister agreed to a national referendum on withdrawal. unless he forges a new coalition government, possibly with Shimon Peres&#39;s Labour Party.
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WASHINGTON -- Last month, venture capitalist Fred Wilson drew a lot of attention on the Internet when he declared a 21st-century kind of bankruptcy. In a posting on his blog about technology, Wilson announced he was giving up on responding to all the e-mail piled up in his inbox.
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Malaysian rebel politician Anwar Ibrahim, freed from jail last week, sought on Monday to clear the way for his return to active politics when his lawyers moved to have his criminal record wiped clean.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indonesia Bureau Chief Haseenah Koyakutty. JAKARTA : Indonesia&#39;s government is no longer expected to face a strong opposition in parliament with the unexpected rise of Vice President Jusuf
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Chairman of the board retires and cashes out.
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Regulators would take steps to oust top executives if the board of the government-chartered mortgage funding company doesn't remove them on its own, according to a source close to the situation.
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Singapore cut corporate taxes for the first time in three years to lure more international financial services and technology companies. The government will reduce the maximum tax rate payable by companies to 18 percent from 20 percent from the 2008 year of assessment, according to the second minister for finance, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, above. The tax on goods and services will be increased 2 percentage points, to 7 percent, from July 1 to make up for the revenue shortfall from lower collections from companies, he said. The government of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong intends to attract 11.9 billion Singapore dollars ($7.7 billion) of investment in services and manufacturing industries this year to underpin growth.
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A Singapore opposition leader, who   was surrounded by police in a prolonged downtown stand-off over   the right to protest, said on Sunday that he would refuse to   move until Tuesday's formal start of the IMF-World Bank   meetings.
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Gov. Bill Richardson is gone from the Democratic presidential race, but he's still raising money: to retire a campaign debt.
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The nation could be plunged into a potentially bitter debate over a successor to the ailing Chief Justice if he is to leave at the end this term, which concludes at the end of June.
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South Korea's ruling Uri Party is teetering toward possible collapse as 23 lawmakers quit to create a new political outfit, thrusting President Roh Moo-Hyun's group into a minority ahead of elections in December.
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Singapore Airlines must not be derailed by American-style union practices that could drive it into bankruptcy, the city-state&#39;s founding father Lee Kuan Yew said in a letter to the airline&#39;s union published Thursday.
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Â· Party boss likely to face more corruption charges  Â· Case would hamper presidential ambitions
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CHICAGO - Cash-strapped United Airlines said in a bankruptcy court filing Thursday that it "likely" will be necessary to terminate and replace its employee pension plans.    The carrier cited the size of further cost cuts and the need to find bankruptcy-exit financing as reasons for such a drastic move...
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A television actor who played a gambling addict is warning Singaporeans about the dangers of excessive gambling during the Lunar New Year season.