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Violet Oon wins lawsuit against business partner; court orders Oon family to buy Murjani’s 50% stake
SINGAPORE restaurateur Violet Oon and her family have won the civil suit that they brought against their business partner, Manoj Murjani, with the High Court ordering them to buy out Murjani’s 50 per cent stake in the company at fair value.

Arrest warrants out for 2 more laundering suspects; one has S$145 million in bank accounts
FIFTY-FIVE more properties and 15 vehicles have been slapped with prohibition of disposal orders by the police, in an update to Singapore’s largest money laundering case.

AN INDUSTRY group has launched a playbook for Singapore manufacturers in the machining and moulding sectors looking to brush up the job skills of their employees, and a programme that temporarily assigns chief sustainability officers to companies that need them.

More than 16,000 drawn to over 600 SBF activities in 2023
MORE than 16,000 business leaders and employees took part in over 600 activities – events, workshops, forums, roundtables and training sessions – organised by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) in 2023.

Acra cancels registrations of filing agent, qualified individual linked to money-laundering probe
THE Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (Acra) has cancelled the registration of the filing agent linked to the 10 foreigners nabbed in 2023’s mega anti-money laundering bust. The registration belonging to the agent’s qualified individual has also been invalidated.

Digital banking meets hard realities in South-east Asia’s emerging markets
DIGITAL banks have sprouted in South-east Asia over the last couple of years, as new and nimble financial players grabbed at opportunities to make a play for “the underbanked”.