Bloomberg Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen criticised both the US and China for taking “unilateral actions,” lumping the two rivals together as nations challenging the current global order. In a speech to the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, Ng said the world’s two-biggest economies were similarly using security considerations to justify their behavior — the US ...

Bloomberg A group of 40 political prisoners in Venezuela were expected to be released on June 2, a day after President Nicolas Maduro granted conditional freedom to at least 39 people. The group includes at least six members of the opposition Voluntad Popular party, lawmaker Adriana Pichardo said. It doesn’t include the party’s founder, Leopoldo Lopez, though National Assembly lawmakers ...

Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will let lawmakers decide what to do with a tax law that his administration lobbied for and is now being partly blamed for rising prices. “The law was enacted by Congress, I leave it to Congress to decide whether or not to amend, suspend or modify the law,” Duterte said in a speech ...