Singapore puts the squeeze on protesters at IMF meet
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The most jam-packed event at this   year's International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting in   Singapore could end up being an indoor protest.
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Nearly a decade ago, the International Monetary Fund drew rebukes for prescribing drastic reforms during the Asian economic crisis that erupted in 1997. Today, the IMF is again battling controversy, with some saying its efforts to give more say to emerging economies are not enough.
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A politically contentious plan to   revamp the 61-year-old International Monetary Fund and give   rising economic powers more say will be hotly debated when   world financial leaders gather in Singapore this week and next.
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Four developing nations, including China, could have a greater say in the workings of the IMF, a report says.
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Global finance chiefs on Saturday  called for a more broad-based effort to calm financial markets,  including tighter scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund  and other institutions of increasingly powerful state-owned  investment funds.
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UBS is reportedly facing shareholder opposition to a huge injection of funds from Singapore and the Middle East to help the Swiss banking giant overcome the US subprime mortgage meltdown.
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 16 -- The chiefs of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, here for a gathering of financial leaders, sharply rebuked the host government on Friday for barring the entry of 27 accredited members of anti-poverty and environmental organizations. They accused Singapore of...
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Non-governmental organizations are discussing a boycott of the IMF and World Bank meetings in Singapore to protest the city-state's hardline stand against activists, organizers have said.
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Poverty in Africa, global economic growth and revaluation of China's currency were the issues expected to dominate a two-day meeting of top G7 finance ministers.
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China and Singapore on Monday  urged the international community to help calm Beijing's  dispute with Taiwan over its push for independence.
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REDDELICH, Germany, June 5 -- The protesters, thousands of them, are packed into a soggy tent city next to a potato field. They have spent months honing tactics and discussing strategy, all for a particular goal: to disrupt the summit of the world's biggest economic powers that begins Wednesday.
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Squabbling over voting clout soured  the International Monetary Fund's annual meeting on Sunday as  countries lined up to find fault with a plan crafted to reflect  a shifting balance of power in the world economy.
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Business & money: Bank working to raise around Â£10bn from the Chinese and Singapore governments.
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Global finance chiefs sought a way  on Friday to put pressure on China to let its currency rise in  value to ease global trade imbalances and also aimed to craft a  message to soothe turbulent financial markets.
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World policy makers need to be ready  to adapt to more challenging economic conditions, IMF Managing  Director Rodrigo Rato warned on Friday on the eve of a meeting  of Group of Seven economic leaders.
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz   aid on Friday that Singapore had damaged its own reputation by   imposing "authoritarian" restrictions on the entry of activists   for the World Bank/IMF meetings.
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz   said on Friday that Singapore had damaged its own reputation by   imposing "authoritarian" restrictions on the entry of activists   for the World Bank/IMF meetings.