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...The disclosure of the warrants, which were issued three weeks ago, comes after Michael Lauber, Swiss attorney-general, visited Kuala Lumpur earlier this month....
...Additional reporting by Michael Peel in Bangkok...
...It is their dilemma,” said Michael Barr, associate professor of international relations at Flinders University in Adelaide. So far, parents have welcomed the proposed changes....
...The city-state has frozen 12 accounts containing almost S$10m ($7.1m) held by Yak Yew Chee, a senior private banker at BSI, the Swiss wealth manager, who also managed accounts of other companies involved...
...Queen of the Night, by Alexander Chee, Michael Joseph, RRP£14.99/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RRP$28 As sumptuous and operatic as the colourful 19th-century world it describes, this is the story of Lilliet...
...Today that same bank official in Singapore, Yak Yew Chee, is battling a criminal investigation by the city-state’s authorities on suspicion that he benefited “from criminal conduct”....
...However, Tung Chee-hwa, then Hong Kong’s chief executive, thought otherwise and referred the matter to the National People’s Congress Standing Committee himself, which confirmed that this was indeed a matter...
...Chinese ecommerce company Alibaba has named Michael Evans, a one-time candidate to succeed Lloyd Blankfein as chief executive of Goldman Sachs, among its independent board members as it prepares to float...
...Induction, as used in Nokia’s smartphone, was discovered by the British scientist Michael Faraday in 1831....
...Among them have been high-profile guests such as Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York....
...A protest march on July 1 became an annual institution after 500,000 people turned up in 2003 to call for the then chief executive Tung Chee Hwa to resign, but recent marches have not reached that scale....
...He’d come across as another [Beijing-appointed] Tung Chee-hwa clone.”...
...When news of Tung Chee-hwa's resignation as Hong Kong's chief executive emerged on March 1, officials in the former British colony and Beijing declined to comment....
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