South-east Asia
JAKARTA - ATTORNEY-GENERAL Hendarman Supandji is under pressure to clean up his team or quit after a top prosecutor investigating embezzlement at Bank Indonesia was allegedly caught taking a bribe of US$660,000 (S$915,000).
China
BEIJING - CRITICS who are out to tarnish China's reputation ahead of the Olympics will only hurt their own credibility, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said yesterday.
Asia
TOKYO - PRIME Minister Yasuo Fukuda is caught in a dilemma after the opposition-controlled Upper House yesterday blocked his choice of a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat as Japan's next central bank chief.
