SINGAPORE: More than S$370,000 (US$271,000) have been recovered after the Singapore Police Force (SPF), together with two banks and the Hong Kong police, foiled a scam targeting a 70-year-old victim. On Apr 18, DBS detected suspicious transactions of about S$180,000 transferred from the man’s account to a bank account in Hong Kong, SPF said in a news release on Wednesday (May 1). The bank immediately blocked further transactions from the victim’s account and notified SPF’s Anti-Scam…

At Columbia, demonstrators vowed to remain until their demands are met, including that the school divest all financial holdings linked to Israel. The university has rejected the demand, with president Minouche Shafik saying talks with students had collapsed.”Students occupying the building face expulsion,” Columbia’s Office of Public Affairs said in…

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:A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a judgment requiring IBM to pay rival BMC Software $1.6 billion, after a judge found IBM improperly replaced BMC’s mainframe software at AT&T with its own.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said a lower court judge’s determination concerning liability…

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