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Singapore’s GDP grew 3.5% in 2017, says PM Lee

Bloomberg Singapore’s economy expanded 3.5 percent in 2017, more than double the initial government forecast as the country benefited from the global economic upswing, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his New Year message. Lee said the city-state would press on with economic restructuring and infrastructure projects such its fifth airport terminal as well as review healthcare policies to ...

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LeEco founder Yueting’s assets seized in China

Bloomberg A Chinese court has seized all the assets owned by LeEco founder Jia Yueting it could unearth, as the country’s legal bodies step up action against an internet entrepreneur who once declared war on Apple and Tesla Inc. The Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court seized more than $200,000 in bank deposits, the court said in a statement posted on ...

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Vietnam deploys 10,000 cyber warriors to fight ‘wrongful views’

Bloomberg Vietnam is deploying a 10,000-member military cyber warfare unit to combat what the government sees as a growing threat of “wrongful views” proliferating on the internet, reports local media. Force 47 has worked pro-actively against distorted information, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported, citing Nguyen Trong Nghia, deputy head of the general politics department under the Vietnam People’s Military. The National ...

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