IN 2000, Nobel Prize-winning group Medecins Sans Frontieres registered as a charity in Singapore, hoping to raise funds and recruit volunteers for its overseas humanitarian missions.
A BRITISH concert organiser who failed to deliver a mega-event here in 2005 was on Friday ordered to repay the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), which pumped $6 million into the now-infamous Listen Live show.
The decision by the country's highest court capped a long-running legal battle between the STB and Mr Tony Hollingsworth, the man behind the doomed concert.
THE financial crisis continues to weigh heavily on the minds of MPs, with several of them set to raise a range of concerns related to the global crisis when Parliament sits on Monday.
One of the issues that will be raised is whether the Government can provide additional help to businesses which are at risk of failure, and individuals in danger of losing their homes in the current climate.
