WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew has warned the United States it risks losing global leadership if it did not remain engaged in Asia to "balance" China's military and economic might.
By Shihar Aneez
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SINGAPORE (AFP) - - Singapore has passed a law aimed at tightening the screws on cross-border tax cheats and complying with stricter standards for world banking centres, the finance ministry said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The United States is to consider the recently signed EU-South Korea free trade agreement in a review of its long delayed free trade pact with the Asian nation, officials said.
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. said Friday that it had lost about 400 million dollars in the six months through September due to a slump in sales during the global economic downturn.