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‘Malaysia hasn’t sought return of 1MDB-linked jet’

Bloomberg Singapore hasn’t received any formal request from Malaysia to return financier Low Taek Jho’s private jet, part of the billions of dollars in assets that PM Mahathir Mohamad is seeking to claw back. “An aircraft that is the subject of ongoing 1MDB-related investigations is parked at Seletar Airport,” a representative for Singapore’s police said in response to queries. “Singapore ...

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South Korea tells some BMW owners to park cars on fire risk

Bloomberg South Korea’s government will tell owners of some BMW AG cars in the country to keep the vehicles off the roads until the German carmaker completes safety checks to address a defect after reports of nearly 40 cases of fire this year alone. After announcing a recall of more than 106,000 BMW cars in the country, the transport ministry ...

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Lula’s party launches all-out push for his Brazil candidacy

Bloomberg His supporters are descending on Brazil’s capital by the busloads, his lawyers wage legal battles, and his party stages hunger strikes, sit-ins, and news conferences in defense of his right to bid for the country’s top job. In public, allies of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are pulling out all the stops to get the imprisoned leftist ...

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