Singapore’s PM faces rare dissent in Facebook chat
PM Lee (AFP, 24 Jan) - Singapore's Prime Minister was left fumbling for answers Saturday after agreeing to a live Facebook chat with increasingly strident citizens turning to the Internet to voice dissent in the tightly-controlled city-state. Lee Hsien Loong opened the conversation on his personal Facebook page from the social...
Hong Kong Occupy protest leaders arrested
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai talks to the media after leaving Wanchai police station in Hong Kong on January 21, 2015. "I absolutely believe that Hong Kongers will not give up," Tai said in a speech to the crowd before he went in to the station. Tension remains high in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city...
China: Fake bank swindles customers out of $32m
The 'bank' appeared legitimate to the 200 people who handed over their money. A fake bank which was set up to look just like a real one has swindled Chinese savers out of 200m yuan ($32m; £21m), it's reported. To customers in the eastern city of Nanjing the interior looked like any other state-owned bank, with uniformed clerks...
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