Tag: Singapore

Source: bloomberg.com Singapore’s Minister of Law and Home Affairs doesn’t believe the island city-state stands to benefit from any instability in Hong Kong, as protests stretch into a third month. The rival financial centers are widely seen as investor-friendly havens from which to tap into fast-growing Asian markets. Since protests started in June, sparked by a proposal

Source: thehindu.com Singapore makes its biggest illegal ivory seizure since 1932, impounding a haul of nearly nine tonnes of contraband tusks from an estimated 300 elephants, authorities said on July 23. The illegal cargo, discovered on July 21 in a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo being shipped to Vietnam via Singapore, also included