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Why doesn't Singapore count the poor? (29 Oct) - Singapore, one of the richest countries in the world, has 20 billionaires and 188,000 millionaires. But curiously, the government doesn’t know the exact number of its poor households. Maybe Kishore Mahbubani, a former diplomat, was correct when he wrote in 2001 that poverty... 

Infosys exploiting US B-1 visitor visas for Indian FTs to work in US. (US, 29 Oct) - The federal government is set to slap Infosys Ltd with the largest immigration fine ever, claiming the Indian outsourcing giant illegally placed workers on visitor, rather than work, visas at big corporate clients across the U.S. The government... 

Singapore not serious about an extradition treaty: Indonesia speaker. (24 Oct) - The House of Representatives has drawn attention to the Indonesia-Singapore extradition treaty during the 2nd Southeast Asia Parliamentarians Against Corruption (SEAPAC) meeting in Medan, North Sumatra, which started on Wednesday. An extradition...