Around 400 protesters gathered at Singapore's Speakers' Corner on Saturday calling for an independent inquiry into whether Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong abused his power in a battle with his siblings over what to do with their late father's house.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday took the blame for the recent plunge in his cabinet's popularity, pledging that he would "sincerely fulfill" his responsibility to explain himself regarding a cronyism scandal.
In July, Hollywood production company Red Granite was accused in a US civil lawsuit of using 100 million US dollars that prosecutors said had been diverted from the 1MDB fund to finance DiCaprio's 2013 film, "The Wolf of Wall Street."
Singapore said Tuesday it had fined Credit Suisse and a local lender for breaches of the city-state's anti-money laundering laws relating to a corruption scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB.
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