Singapore PM, father file suits against magazine
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father Lee Kuan Yew have filed defamation suits against the Far Eastern Economic Review, court officials and the magazine's editor said.
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The mother of a 19-year-old Briton killed in a roadside blast in Iraq moved to sue Prime Minister Tony Blair's government for failing to care for its warzone soldiers, a report said.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi takes legal action over what he called damaging allegations made against him.
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Kuala Lumpur: Former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said a few elements among Umno leaders and the media are deliberately raising issues and making vicious allegations to create disharmony.
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The suit alleges that a recent book and television deal were structured to cheat the father of the murder victim Ronald L. Goldman out of damages owed him from a civil judgment.
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Corrects paragraph 9 to "Singapore second finance minister   Tharman Shanmugaratnam," not "Singapore finance minister   Tharman Shanmugaratnum."
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CAIRO -- A contemptuous editor hemmed in by only his suspenders, Ibrahim Issa has been sued more than once for "humiliating the president." It's a distinction he rather likes, given that in the last two years he has written 84 unflattering columns about Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
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SINGAPORE Aug 30 - Singapore has questioned a US government assessment that it has become a sex slave centre and asked Washington to back its charges with evidence.
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The IMF and World Bank say Singapore  breached a deal to let activists attend their annual meetings.
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Acerbic radio host Don Imus is being  sued by his son's former nanny over an on-air outburst in which  he called her a terrorist after firing her over an incident  with a pocket knife and a paper-cap gun.
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BATAM, Indonesia  - Activists are considering   legal action against Singapore, accusing the government of   violating human rights after police held members incommunicado   before deporting them, an activist said on Saturday.
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The father of "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino has filed a $10 million libel suit against the publisher of a book about his daughter, alleging that it contains "false, exaggerated, sensational, intentional and malicious untruths."
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A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says.
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Two foreign banks have filed claims against Singapore-based Asia Pacific Breweries, the makers of Tiger Beer, in an attempt to recover millions of dollars stolen by a former employee at the brewer, the company has said.
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Lawyers representing the exiled former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, filed petitions against the government, accusing it of abducting him and of acting in contempt of the court.
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SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore yesterday announced a partial relaxation of rules on political expression but warned that race and religion will remain sensitive issues subject to restrictions.
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MARK COLVIN: The Opposition leader, Mark Latham, has challenged the Prime Minister to remove the gag that&#39;s prevented senior government advisers, including those in the PM&#39;s office, from talking about what happened in the &#39;children overboard&#39; affair.