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  • Goldman Said to Earn $500 Million Arranging Malaysia Bond

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc. made about $500 million arranging three bond sales in the past year for 1Malaysia Development Bhd., the state investment fund led by Prime Minister Najib Razak, said a person familiar with the matter.

  • Malaysia Risks Post-Election Protests on Bias Claims

    Malaysia faces the risk of public protests over the accuracy of results from the May 5 national election after an opposition-backed group cited evidence of vote buying and bias by the official ballot oversight agency.

  • Olam Survives as Short-Seller Block Proves Investors’ Friend

    Short-seller Carson Block’s charge that Olam International Ltd. will fail, his first attack on a Singapore company, is a victory for shareholders after it made the commodity trader more responsive to investors.

  • Najib Warns Anwar Malaysia Election Win Spells Disaster

    Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, whose coalition faces its biggest challenge in 55 years, said the election offers a choice between a reforming government that’s boosted growth and a fractious opposition that could bring “catastrophic ruin” for the country.

  • Longest Retirements Fuel Pressure for Singapore Remodel

    Singaporean Richard Mui joined the ranks of the world’s longest-living retirees when his career ended in 2010. Three years on, the 54-year-old can no longer afford to pay his father’s medical bills, and worries about putting his two children through university.

  • Najib Plans One Third New Candidates to Fight Malaysia Poll

    One in three candidates from Malaysia’s ruling coalition for the May 5 election will be new as Prime Minister Najib Razak opts for a slate of fresh faces to fend off a resurgent opposition led by Anwar Ibrahim.

  • Billionaire Modi Says Singapore Sex Drive Hinges on Housing

    Billionaire Bhupendra Kumar Modi, who became a Singapore citizen last year, is urging his adopted nation to end a ban on young singles owning state-built homes because it hurts one of the city’s key goals: making babies.

  • Singapore Protest Exposes Voter Worries About Immigration

    Singapore’s biggest political protest since allowing these events at a downtown park in 2000 may signal growing difficulty by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s government to push policies without broader support.

  • Singapore Establishment Challenged by Carson Block on Olam

    When Carson Block likened Olam International Ltd. to fraud-ridden Enron Corp., he challenged more than the accounting of the Singapore-based commodities firm. He also took on Temasek Holdings Pte, the government-owned investment company whose money has helped build the city-state into a corporate dynamo known as Singapore Inc.

  • Najib Sees Early Achievement of Mahathir Vision: Southeast Asia

    Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said the nation may reach high-income status two years ahead of target, as he seeks to convince voters of his economic achievements before elections due within weeks.

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