Financial leaders rebuke Singapore over barring of advocacy groups
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SINGAPORE -- The leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, meeting here for a gathering of financial leaders, sharply rebuked the host government yesterday for barring the entry of 27 accredited members of antipoverty and environmental organizations. They accused Singapore of breaking an agreement to open its doors.
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Singapore retaliated against the Far Eastern Economic Review because it refused to apologize for an article about an opposition politician, the magazine said in an editorial.
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The flow of people between the campaigns and advocacy groups is alarming those who fought for tighter campaign finance rules.
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SINGAPORE will not support Taiwan if it provokes a war with China, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday in his maiden rally speech, reiterating Singapore&#39;s position on cross-straits relations.
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Press freedom groups voice dismay at moves by China to increase restrictions on foreign news agencies.
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China&#39;s state assets watchdog said here Friday that the derivatives trading of China Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp. was in violation of the rules, and the company exceeded its authority in deciding to endorse the trading.
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Singapore is allowing 22 blacklisted  anti-globalization activists to enter the country, following  withering criticism of the ban from World Bank President Paul  Wolfowitz.
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Singapore's former PM Lee Kuan Yew apologises for saying Malaysia marginalises its ethnic Chinese.
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz   on Friday called Singapore's restrictions on the entry of   activists for the World Bank/IMF meetings "authoritarian," and   said the city-state had damaged its own reputation.
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BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday blasted China's efforts to further control the distribution of news and financial information by foreign news agencies, saying revised regulations showed that the government was tightening censorship.
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Business & money: Business leaders oppose stronger powers to investigate breaches.
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The World Bank and the I.M.F. protested a decision by Singapore to bar several activist groups at their meeting with the leaders of poor countries next week.
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Phillip Goldstein, manager of a small hedge fund company, likes to stretch the definition of activist investor. He's challenged the managers of closed-end funds and questioned the judgment of the U.S. markets watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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HONG KONG - Fresh from election success, the leader of a pro-government party in Hong Kong said yesterday the time was ripe to revisit a Beijing-mandated anti-subversion Bill put on hold after half a million protesters poured into the streets to oppose it
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Singaporeans have been urged to think out of the box, throw out old ideas and be less conventional by it&#39;s new Prime Minister.
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Business & money: Performers and labels attack government's decision not to extend protection beyond 50 years.
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Police have blocked a Singaporean opposition politician ofrom holding a march through the city to protest restrictions on freedom of speech ahead of the IMF-World Bank meetings.