https://www.scmp.com/rss/35738/feed Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a French economist, lawyer and politician. He served as the head of the International Monetary Fund from 2007 to 2011 before he resigned following allegations of sexual assault by a hotel employee in New York. All charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped after prosecutors questioned the alleged victim’s credibility and found the evidence inconclusive. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday lashed out at the focus on his sexual behaviour in a French court where he is charged with pimping, saying he was not on trial for "deviant" acts. The 65-year-old, once seen as a frontrunner for the French presidency, said the idea that his preference for certain practices highlighted in court, such as sodomy, would spur him to seek out prostitutes was "absurd". For a second day, the court in the northern city of Lille picked apart sex parties... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1710486/strauss-kahn-lashes-out-sexual-focus-his-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1710486/strauss-kahn-lashes-out-sexual-focus-his-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:45:32 +0000 Power can be a heady aphrodisiac and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, when chief of the International Monetary Fund and about to run for French president, had plenty of it. But eventually his power, apparently used to feed his voracious sexual appetite, would prove his undoing. "Yes, I like women, so what?" the silver-haired Strauss-Kahn told the Liberation newspaper in April 2011, just weeks before his high-flying career imploded over accusations he sexually assaulted a New York hotel maid. After... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1698843/dominique-strauss-kahn-former-head-imf-goes-trial-pimping-charges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1698843/dominique-strauss-kahn-former-head-imf-goes-trial-pimping-charges?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:00:29 +0000 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund, is set to become chairman of an investment bank. Strauss-Kahn, 64, who quit the IMF under a cloud in May 2011, will help develop the investment-banking franchise of Luxembourg-based Anatevka, its current chairman, Thierry Leyne, said. Anatevka, which went public in March in Paris, will be renamed Leyne, Strauss-Kahn & Partners, Compagnie Financiere, or "LSK", according to a company statement. Strauss-Kahn "is... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1317935/disgraced-former-imf-boss-dominique-strauss-kahn-set-become-bank-chairman?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1317935/disgraced-former-imf-boss-dominique-strauss-kahn-set-become-bank-chairman?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn will have to defend himself in a French court on charges of aggravated pimping despite recommendations by prosecutors that the charges be dropped. Judges investigating the case in the northern city of Lille decided on Friday to go ahead with charges of aggravated pimping in a group. The case revolves around an alleged hotel prostitution ring and hinges on whether Strauss-Kahn knew he was partying with prostitutes and whose money... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1291687/former-imf-chief-strauss-kahn-face-pimping-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1291687/former-imf-chief-strauss-kahn-face-pimping-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:05:30 +0000 Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he did not have "any kind of problems with women", in an interview two years after the sex scandal that lost him his job and his French presidential aspirations. Strauss-Kahn was arrested in May 2011 after a New York hotel maid accused him of sexually assaulting her, charges that were later dropped. I don't think I have any kind of problems with women. I certainly have a problem with understanding that what is expected from a politician of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1280415/dominique-strauss-kahn-defiant-first-english-language-interview-sex?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1280415/dominique-strauss-kahn-defiant-first-english-language-interview-sex?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 After some time out of the limelight following his spectacular fall from grace in 2011, former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resurfaced in unusual circumstances. It will be recalled that his stellar career was derailed by a lurid scandal involving a sexual encounter with a maid at a New York hotel. Criminal charges were laid but subsequently dropped. Various other colourful stories surfaced during this period. However, the reason Strauss-Kahn has been the subject... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1238501/strauss-kahn-gives-south-sudan-some-special-attention?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1238501/strauss-kahn-gives-south-sudan-some-special-attention?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 A French author has written in graphic detail about her eight-month affair with disgraced IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, calling the relationship "field work" for a controversial new book. The book by Argentinian-born Marcela Iacub, a columnist with the left-wing daily Liberation, was denounced by Strauss-Kahn and the wife he has separated from, journalist Anne Sinclair. In Beauty and the Beast, due to be released on February 27, Iacub says she had a relationship with Strauss-Kahn from... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1156378/author-writes-book-about-her-affair-disgraced-imf-chief?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1156378/author-writes-book-about-her-affair-disgraced-imf-chief?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000 I will be forever a primary school student, to learn from the masses, from the grass roots New Shanxi governor Li Xiaopeng, son of former premier Li Peng   His choking style of leadership, his persistent and obsessive defiance, have finally exhausted his players Sports columnist Alfredo Relano on under-fire Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho   The sordid story remains sordid Theatregoer Eric Dimicoli on a new play about the sex case that brought down former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1108473/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1108473/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Hong Kong elects its NPC delegates The 36-strong delegation that will represent Hong Kong in China's parliament for the next five years is elected. Some 52 candidates, including former security chief Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong and incumbents Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai and Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun, will attempt to sway the votes of some 1,620 electors to serve as delegates to the National People's Congress.   UBS set to agree rate-fixing punishment Swiss banking giant UBS is expected to confirm that it will... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1107703/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1107703/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has agreed to pay a financial settlement to a New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault. The payout, reportedly worth several million US dollars, is the latest humiliation to the one-time French presidential contender. But a judge ordered that details of Monday's deal between Strauss-Kahn and Nafissatou Diallo, a 33-year-old illiterate migrant from Guinea, be kept confidential. Diallo said Strauss-Kahn emerged naked from the bathroom of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1103170/strauss-kahn-agrees-payout-new-york-hotel-maid-sex-assault-lawsuit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1103170/strauss-kahn-agrees-payout-new-york-hotel-maid-sex-assault-lawsuit?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Strauss-Kahn banks on out-of-court deal Dominique Strauss-Kahn hopes to draw a line under the sex scandal that destroyed his career. Lawyers for the former IMF chief are due to discuss in the Bronx Supreme Court a settlement of the civil suit brought by Nafissatou Diallo, who says Strauss-Kahn raped her when she went to clean his New York hotel room in May last year. Terms of any settlement, which would allow Strauss-Kahn to avoid an embarrassing civil trial and the potential for a jury to order... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1101577/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1101577/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the hotel maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her last year have reached a preliminary agreement to settle the civil lawsuit she brought against him, a person familiar with the case said. The person, however, cautioned that the agreement could still fall apart. The development was first reported by the New York Times, which cited people with knowledge of the case. Lawyers for Strauss-Kahn and the maid, Nafissatou Diallo,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1094517/strauss-kahn-preliminary-deal-maid-civil-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1094517/strauss-kahn-preliminary-deal-maid-civil-case?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:24:13 +0000 A French court has delayed a decision on whether to drop pimping charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn until December 19, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The appeals court in the northern town of Douai had been expected to rule Wednesday on a request from Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers to stop a judicial inquiry into claims that he and associates arranged sex parties with prostitutes. The case is the last in a series of sex-related probes that the former International Monetary Fund... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1092883/french-court-rule-strauss-kahn-pimping-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1092883/french-court-rule-strauss-kahn-pimping-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:52:42 +0000 Debate over Franklin Lam controversy Lawmakers will discuss the controversy surrounding Executive Council member Franklin Lam Fan-keung's sale of two luxury flats just before the government announced extra measures to cool the housing market. Lam has been granted leave of absence from his role as a member of the government's top advisory body in the wake of the controversy.   US releases economic data Two key pieces of US economic data will offer new insight into the pace of the economic... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1092480/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1092480/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:00:00 +0000 First there was Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who allegedly referred to women as "material", then catcalls in the French parliament just because a female minister wore a floral dress. But when the agriculture minister - in an interview last month about promoting gender equality - suggested women couldn't get their heads around technical jobs, that was too much. The prime minister of France - a country that produced feminist icons such as Joan of Arc and Simone de Beauvoir - has decided that his... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1074117/anti-sexism-classes-chauvinist-french-ministers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1074117/anti-sexism-classes-chauvinist-french-ministers?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 German press blasts Athens protesters BERLIN - The German press was united in its disgust after some Greek demonstrators dressed in Nazi uniforms and flew swastikas to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Athens. "Germany does not deserve THAT," screamed mass-circulation daily Bild. "Merkel's visit was intended as a goodwill gesture, but it is doubtful that her quiet expressions of sympathy were heard by the demonstrators," said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily. AFP S Africa mine... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1058160/briefs-october-11-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1058160/briefs-october-11-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman named as his new girlfriend are suing three French glossies for publishing "stolen photographs" of them together, their lawyers said yesterday. The magazines targeted are VSD, Voici and Closer . Strauss-Kahn's lawyer Richard Malka said the suits would be filed in the coming days against the magazines which "are making money from the private lives of other people". VSD said the woman works for a well-known TV channel, adding that the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1033740/disgraced-dominique-strauss-kahn-sues-over-photos-new-girlfriend?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1033740/disgraced-dominique-strauss-kahn-sues-over-photos-new-girlfriend?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 China and US light up Pacific Islands Forum AVARUA - Beijing denied it was competing with Washington in the Pacific islands, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at a regional summit aiming to reassert US influence. In comments that coincided with Clinton's arrival at the forum in the Cook Islands, Deputy Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said China simply wanted to help developing island states. "We are here in this region not to seek any particular influence, still less dominance,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1027292/world-news-brief-september-1-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1027292/world-news-brief-september-1-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:00:00 +0000 He's in a bad way. It's very sad. He's mostly just at home on his own ... He's shunned by everybody An acquaintance of former I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now separated from his wife Referring to the country as Burma does not amount to disrespecting the constitution A spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi responds to a complaint from Myanmar's election commission His face is a gift for cartoonists, it's a bit like a grouper SCMP cartoonist Harry Harrison, on his favourite subject, former chief... https://www.scmp.com/article/1005457/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1005457/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Perhaps I was politically naive, but I simply did not believe that they would go that far Dominique Strauss-Kahn, blaming Nicolas Sarkozy's allies for his downfall I'll keep working until I can't do it physically any more Hong Kong's last rickshaw puller, 63-year-old Hung Chiu-ping There is no reason why Asia cannot develop into the next powerhouse of world rugby Asian Rugby Football Union secretary general Ross Mitchell https://www.scmp.com/article/999569/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/999569/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Corruption is the biggest danger facing the party. If not dealt with properly, the problem may change the nature of, or terminate, the political regime Premier Wen Jiabao We look forward to even greater investment and growth here A spokeswoman for Apple, confirming a visit to Beijing by chief executive Tim Cook (above) It's painful, but not something I have to make a political judgment about French presidential candidate Francois Hollande, on the latest problem for former colleague... https://www.scmp.com/article/996772/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/996772/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ... Students protest against Strauss-Kahn address Protests are expected at Britain's Cambridge University where Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who quit as head of the International Monetary Fund in May amid claims he sexually assaulted New York hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo, is scheduled to speak at the debating society. Students angry that the disgraced former IMF chief has been asked to address them have invited Diallo's lawyer... https://www.scmp.com/article/994922/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/994922/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000 International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde has named Chinese economist Jianhai Lin as the fund's secretary. The IMF announced the appointment on Wednesday, set to take effect on March 22, with Lin becoming the first Chinese to head the secretary's department in the Washington-based global body. He will succeed India's Siddharth Tiwari, who was recently appointed director of the IMF's strategy, policy and review department. Analysts said Lin's nomination was the latest... https://www.scmp.com/article/994891/chinese-economist-lands-key-imf-secretary-post?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/994891/chinese-economist-lands-key-imf-secretary-post?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Oprah Winfrey The talk show host declared herself 'one proud mama' as she attended the first graduation ceremony of South Africa's Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, an elite school she founded at Henley on Klip, just outside Johannesburg. Some 72 students matriculated with 188 distinctions and are now bound for universities in South Africa and the United States. The school, which reportedly cost Winfrey US$40 million, was beset by a scandal in 2007 involving sexual abuse by one of its... https://www.scmp.com/article/990850/good-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/990850/good-week?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000 I'm neither a saint nor a victim. I'm a free woman Anne Sinclair, wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and editor of Le Huffington Post I don't have this or that worry about China's oil supplies, and I didn't discuss this issue with the leaders of each country Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking at the end of his Middle East visit What the Argentinians have been saying ... is actually far more like colonialism British Prime Minister David Cameron's view of Argentina's claim to the Falklands https://www.scmp.com/article/990628/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/990628/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000 The death of a dictator is always a period of uncertainty ... and North Korea is the hardest dictatorship in our time Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Twitter A monetary union without a central budget is something that doesn't make sense Dominique Strauss-Kahn's view of the euro, at a forum in Beijing He did not go up on stage, he did not sing, he did not dance. There was no partying A spokesman for Philippine President Benigno Aquino (pictured), deflecting allegations of insensitivity https://www.scmp.com/article/988239/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/988239/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn delivered yesterday in Beijing his first public speech since quitting the post amid allegations of sexual assault. In a keynote speech to an annual conference of economists organised by NetEase.com, a mainland news portal, Strauss-Kahn shared his insights on the euro-zone debt crisis. He called for greater integration of European Union countries to solve the present economic crisis, which he said could continue for a further five to seven years if... https://www.scmp.com/article/988228/eu-crisis-could-last-seven-years-ex-imf-chief-warns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/988228/eu-crisis-could-last-seven-years-ex-imf-chief-warns?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Dominique Strauss-Kahn For the second time this year, legal officials chose not to prosecute the former IMF chief on charges of attempted rape. There was evidence from Strauss-Kahn's own testimony of sexual assault in a 2003 encounter with French writer Tristane Banon, the prosecutor said on Thursday, but given a three-year statute of limitations on that charge, no case was brought. Under French law, sexual assault is a lesser charge than attempted rape and can't be prosecuted if a complaint... https://www.scmp.com/article/982094/good-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/982094/good-week?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:00:00 +0000 If you want to send a box of tomatoes to Palestine, this is subject to approval from Israel and I don't think that is humanitarian Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to the UN General Assembly What is your hotel room number? A woman poses the question of the day to George Clooney in HK I've seen the pain that I caused ... That lightness, I've lost it for good Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn How often do you think minibus owners service their vehicles? The answer is zero James... https://www.scmp.com/article/980043/quotes-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/980043/quotes-week?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000 [The advance] increases Chinese people's confidence that they can feed themselves Hybrid rice breeder Yuan Longping on his 'super rice' Even if you put a gun to my head, I still would not reveal the name Former ATV news chief Leung Ka-wing, refusing to identify the informant for the erroneous report that Jiang Zemin had died I've seen the pain that I caused around me and I thought, I thought a lot. That lightness, I've lost it for good Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, in his first... https://www.scmp.com/article/979602/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/979602/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:00:00 +0000 Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ... Donald Tsang, Guangdong chief lead talks Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen and Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua (pictured) lead delegations to the 14th plenary session of the Hong Kong-Guangdong Co-operation Joint Conference, to discuss measures to enhance co-operation. Agreements covering several areas of co-operation will be signed. Mapping centre opens in Beijing A national innovation hub in Beijing for surveying and... https://www.scmp.com/article/976904/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/976904/talking-points?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:00:00 +0000 China has consistently been quite concerned with the state of the European economy Deputy Foreign Minister Fu Ying , asserting that China's 'vital' interests are at stake if Europe cannot resolve its debt crisis Is that necessary? ... I have diplomatic immunity Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as he was handcuffed after his arrest Gaddafi's security forces are trying to divide the people by using violence against women and rape as tools of war US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham... https://www.scmp.com/article/970921/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/970921/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000 It may seem a stretch to compare the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sex scandal with our local illegal structure saga, but it is not. Granted, the disgrace of the former chief of the International Monetary Fund has the element of sex for heightened drama. But our local illegal structure 'witch-hunt', as some have called it, has not faired badly either on the sensational front: a news item from an ombudsman's report has snowballed into the seemingly daily exposure of misbehaviour of the rich,... https://www.scmp.com/article/970481/power-plays?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/970481/power-plays?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:00:00 +0000 If I told you I would have to kill you now.' Rugby chief Trevor Gregory when asked how much the Hong Kong Sevens sponsorship is worth I saw him inject [EPO] more than one time, like we all did. Disgraced Olympic cycling champion Tyler Hamilton accuses Lance Armstrong of doping She moved away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom.' NYPD spokesman Paul Browne on allegations against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn They made him sick and while he was sick they... https://www.scmp.com/article/968436/quotes-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/968436/quotes-week?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 May 2011 16:00:00 +0000