https://www.scmp.com/rss/519133/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Bloomberg Bloomberg Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations has accused the US of killing innocent people in the Caribbean, citing local reports that two of the men in the latest boat bombing were Trinidadian fishermen. “People from different countries - Colombia, Trinidad, etc - are suffering the effects of these massacres,” ambassador Samuel Moncada told reporters at the UN on Thursday, while holding up the cover story of local Trinidadian newspaper Guardian on the deaths. The comments reflected Venezuela’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3329357/us-strikes-boats-caribbean-fuel-speculation-over-missing-fishermen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3329357/us-strikes-boats-caribbean-fuel-speculation-over-missing-fishermen?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:18:00 +0000 US President Donald Trump urged Americans Friday to get out of the way of Hurricane Irma, calling it an “epic” storm as other officials warned time was running out for people living its path to escape its wrath. Irma menaced Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday as it drove toward Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastatingly high winds, killing 21 people and leaving catastrophic destruction in its wake.Irma is now a category 4 hurricane packing winds of 240km/h and is expected to make... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110410/us-president-donald-trump-urges-americans-stay-safe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110410/us-president-donald-trump-urges-americans-stay-safe?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:45:15 +0000 “We had cars flying over our head, we had 40ft containers flying left and right,” said Knacyntar Nedd, chairwoman of the Barbuda council. “People were literally tying themselves to roofs with ropes to hold them down.” As Hurricane Irma blasted across the Caribbean in an arc of horror and destruction on Thursday, killing at least 10 and wreaking near-total devastation on islands at the eye of the storm, victims recalled a night of misery that exceeded even their worst fears. The trail of damage... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2110263/we-had-cars-flying-over-our-head-traumatised-caribbeans-describe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2110263/we-had-cars-flying-over-our-head-traumatised-caribbeans-describe?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2017 02:08:54 +0000 Once there was an island known as Barbuda; after Hurricane Irma, much of it is gone. Hurricane Irma has decimated the small Caribbean island of Barbuda, ripping apart buildings, uprooting trees and killing at least one person as its 185mph winds swept across the two-island nation best known for its pristine sandy beaches. “Barbuda is totally destroyed,” Roderick Faustin, first secretary for the embassy of Antigua and Barbuda in Washington told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. “At least 95 per... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2110262/much-barbuda-island-caribbean-gone-after-being-hit-hurricane?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2110262/much-barbuda-island-caribbean-gone-after-being-hit-hurricane?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:44:21 +0000 French, British and Dutch military authorities rushed aid to a devastated string of Caribbean islands Thursday after Hurricane Irma left at least 11 people dead and thousands homeless as it spun toward Florida for what could be a catastrophic blow this weekend. Warships and planes were dispatched with food, water and troops after the fearsome Category 5 storm smashed homes, schools and roads, laying waste to some of the world’s most beautiful and exclusive tourist destinations. Hundreds of miles... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110254/hurricane-irma-kills-10-and-track-direct-hit-florida?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110254/hurricane-irma-kills-10-and-track-direct-hit-florida?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:43:59 +0000 Powerful Hurricane Irma cut a swathe of deadly destruction as it roared through the Caribbean, claiming at least nine lives and turning the tropical islands of St Martin and Barbuda into mountains of rubble. One of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, the rare category 5 hurricane churned westward off the northern coast of Puerto Rico early on Thursday on a potential collision course with south Florida where at-risk areas were evacuated. St Martin – a pristine resort known for its... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110074/monster-hurricane-irma-lashes-puerto-rico-and-may?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2110074/monster-hurricane-irma-lashes-puerto-rico-and-may?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:30:15 +0000 Ng Lap-seng’s dream of “fame and more fortune” drove the Macau billionaire to bribe United Nations officials to win support for a multibillion-dollar conference centre he hoped to build, a US prosecutor said on Tuesday near the end of Ng’s criminal trial. In her closing argument in the US District Court in Manhattan, Assistant US Attorney Janis Echenberg said Ng bypassed the rules of international diplomacy to try to construct the “Geneva of Asia,” and “cement his legacy.” But a lawyer for Ng,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2104112/us-says-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-hoped-un?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2104112/us-says-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-hoped-un?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:59:02 +0000 The US government sued to seize luxury cars, international real estate and bitcoins owned by the alleged mastermind of AlphaBay, the biggest criminal marketplace on the dark web, just days after he reportedly hanged himself in his jail cell in Thailand. AlphaBay was allegedly created in 2014 by Alexandre Cazes, a 26-year-old Canadian living in the Southeast Asian country. It had 200,000 users and 40,000 sellers with about 369,000 listings for drugs, guns, fake IDs, malware and other illegal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2103512/criminals-online-market-network-targeted-us-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2103512/criminals-online-market-network-targeted-us-after?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:05:32 +0000 One of China’s most wanted ­fugitives who is holed up on a tiny Caribbean island says he is willing to return to the mainland to face his accusers – but onlyas a “free man”. Accused of financial crimes ­involving more than US$100 million, businessman Ren Biao – one of the original 100 most wanted under Beijing’s international manhunt of fugitives dubbed ­Operation Skynet – made his plea from St Kitts and Nevis. Beijing’s most wanted: US repatriates one of the leading ‘Sky Net’ fugitives days... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2101887/chinese-fugitive-hiding-tiny-caribbean-island-willing-return?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2101887/chinese-fugitive-hiding-tiny-caribbean-island-willing-return?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Jul 2017 07:30:45 +0000 Macau billionaire Ng Lap-seng was portrayed as a criminal and a hero during opening statements at his United Nations bribery trial in New York on Thursday. Assistant US Attorney Douglas Zolkind told Manhattan federal court jurors that 69-year-old Ng corrupted two UN ambassadors so he could build a legacy by constructing a massive UN conference centre in Macau. Defence attorney Tai Park countered that Ng was a philanthropist willing to spend billions of dollars to build the centre to benefit the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2100663/criminal-or-hero-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-sengs-un?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2100663/criminal-or-hero-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-sengs-un?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jun 2017 01:03:33 +0000 The long-awaited corruption trial of a billionaire Macau property boss with top-level connections to both Beijing and Washington will open tomorrow with the ­accused expected to tell a US court he is the victim of politically motivated prosecution aimed at blocking China’s growing influence in the developing world. Nearly two years after his ­arrest in New York – on the same day President Xi Jinping arrived in the US on an official visit – Ng Lap-seng will stand trial in Manhattan on charges he... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/2099844/macau-billionaire-trial-us-over-united-nations-bribery-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/2099844/macau-billionaire-trial-us-over-united-nations-bribery-case?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:43:08 +0000 The assistant to a billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused of engaging in a scheme to pay bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president pleaded guilty to a single tax charge on Friday. Jeff Yin, who was arrested along with billionaire Ng Lap-seng in 2015, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court following two weeks of negotiations that led to an agreement in which he did not have to admit to bribing anyone. Instead, Yin, 31, pleaded guilty to a single charge of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2086018/macau-billionaires-aide-pleads-guilty-un-bribe-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2086018/macau-billionaires-aide-pleads-guilty-un-bribe-case?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Apr 2017 04:01:06 +0000 The assistant to a billionaire real estate developer from Macau accused of engaging in a scheme to pay bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president is in plea talks, his lawyer said on Tuesday. The negotiations involving Jeff Yin, who was arrested along with billionaire Ng Lap Seng in 2015, were disclosed in a letter filed in Manhattan federal court by his attorney, who said prosecutors had extended him a plea offer. The lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, sought to extend court deadlines so... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2083044/aide-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-negotiates-plea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2083044/aide-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-negotiates-plea?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Mar 2017 02:24:38 +0000 The reasons to have a second passport are many, but for the world’s wealthy elite, they often amount to what Canadian immigration lawyer David Lesperance calls “the backup plan”. He recounted a Shanghainese client who likened second citizenship to having a “fast junk in the harbour, fitted with gold bars”. After generations of turmoil, the bolthole mentality runs deep among China’s rich – by one estimate, 47 per cent of rich mainlanders plan to immigrate within five years . But it’s not just... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2077576/case-canadian-eight-citizenships-and-why-worlds-rich?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2077576/case-canadian-eight-citizenships-and-why-worlds-rich?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:35:00 +0000 When it comes to questionable passports, Hong Kong has a history. It’s a history that might go some way to explaining why the last time the city hosted a formal diplomatic representative from Antigua and Barbuda was in 1995. Passport scams may be underplayed Antigua’s last man in Hong Kong was Honorary Consul Bill Cheung, who left in 1995 under a cloud of unproven allegations that he had made thousands of dollars selling Antiguan passports and visas to Hong Kong and mainland Chinese seeking to... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2071857/dicey-passports-and-islands-sun-hong-kong-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2071857/dicey-passports-and-islands-sun-hong-kong-history?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:31:15 +0000 Hong Kong’s bustling Central district was quiet in the small hours of January 27, the last day of the Year of the Monkey, when two seven-seater vans quietly pulled up outside the luxury Four Seasons Place serviced apartments. The eve of the Lunar New Year is always a big occasion for family gatherings and the crowds on the streets were thinner than usual. Five men left the vans at about 1am and went straight into the lift lobby. Moments later, they reappeared on the 28th floor and knocked on the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2071780/big-questions-about-missing-tycoon-why-and-why-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2071780/big-questions-about-missing-tycoon-why-and-why-now?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 19 Feb 2017 02:00:30 +0000 Think of people movement and immigration and more likely than not the picture that forms in your mind will be one of huddled, dispossessed masses cast adrift in rudimentary boats. Yet as uncertainty, conflict and disparity grip the globe in a way that has not been seen in decades, a parallel and very different form of people movement is undergoing a renaissance. It, too, is a product of globalisation, but one which allows the already possessed to buy a second or third nationality quickly and... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2071903/passports-sale-why-rich-chinese-are-new-super-immigrants?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2071903/passports-sale-why-rich-chinese-are-new-super-immigrants?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Feb 2017 04:30:16 +0000 Missing mainland billionaire ­Xiao Jianhua received a diplomatic passport from Antigua and ­Barbuda just days before ­President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang met the prime minister of the tiny ­Caribbean ­nation in Beijing. A copy of the passport – which was issued on August 8, 2014, and expired on the same date in 2016 – was passed to the South China Morning Post by a senior Antiguan diplomat, who said the 45-year-old tycoon was appointed as an “ambassador-at-large” for the country because... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2071189/missing-tycoon-xiao-jianhua-had-diplomatic-passport?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2071189/missing-tycoon-xiao-jianhua-had-diplomatic-passport?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:45:30 +0000 The Caribbean islands are beloved for their adventurous activities, clear waters, and stunning natural sites. Though each island has its own unique appeal, some have advantages over the others. To rank the islands, we factored in each one’s average hotel-room costs using data from Hotels.com, the number of attractions listed on TripAdvisor, and the amount of coastline offered per square kilometre. 25. Anguilla Average hotel room cost: US$468 per night In Anguilla, you’ll find miles of white... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/2069493/25-best-caribbean-islands-ranked?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/travel-food/article/2069493/25-best-caribbean-islands-ranked?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:00:00 +0000 Given the competition, missing Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua was never going to be a poster boy for one of the most lucrative cash-for citizenship schemes in the world. But bagging that role was a cinch for a living Hollywood legend. When the tropical eastern Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda launched a magazine to promote a citizenship-by-investment programme late last year, they chose Robert De Niro for the cover. Source confirms missing tycoon is in mainland China, not ‘receiving... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2067277/why-missing-chinese-billionaire-xiao-jianhua-and-hollywood?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2067277/why-missing-chinese-billionaire-xiao-jianhua-and-hollywood?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:00:00 +0000 Xiao Jianhua, the billionaire businessman persuaded by mainland Chinese agents to leave Hong Kong and return to the mainland to assist in investigations, looked likely to become a politician until the spring of 1989. As a “student cadre” at the prestigious Peking University, he could have followed the path of Li Keqiang, now the Chinese premier, by joining China’s political aspirants and ascending the party ladder. The pro-democracy movement of that year, with Peking University at its forefront,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2067227/what-next-chinese-tycoon-he-assists-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2067227/what-next-chinese-tycoon-he-assists-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:00:45 +0000 A Chinese billionaire who disappeared mysteriously from his luxury Hong Kong hotel over the Lunar New Year weekend is now on the mainland and “assisting investigations” into the stock market turmoil of 2015 and the case of a former top spy, several sources have told the South China Morning Post. A source familiar with Xiao Jianhua’s movements said the founder of Beijing-based Tomorrow Group was “persuaded” to cooperate rather than coerced by mainland agents who visited him at his serviced... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2067268/chinese-tycoon-helping-inquiries-2015-stock-market?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2067268/chinese-tycoon-helping-inquiries-2015-stock-market?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:00:00 +0000 Billionaire Xiao Jianhua has long been drawn to mysterious but high-profile merger and acquisition deals, some of which involved top state leaders and their “princeling” children. Xiao ranked 32nd along with his wife on Hurun’s China Rich List 2016, with US$5.97 billion in wealth. The 46-year-old is the founder of Tomorrow Group – a sprawling mainland holding company with business in many areas, including financial institutions, IT and energy. Xiao’s links with top leaders have raised eyebrows... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2066933/mainland-tycoon-has-history-doing-deals-big-wheels?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2066933/mainland-tycoon-has-history-doing-deals-big-wheels?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:52:20 +0000 US prosecutors on Tuesday brought new charges against a billionaire from Macau accused of engaging in a scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to a former United Nations General Assembly president. A revised indictment filed in Manhattan federal court against Ng Lap Seng, a real estate developer from the Chinese territory, and his assistant, Jeff Yin, included new charges that both men violated the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Prosecutors also added tax-related charges... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2048531/us-prosecutors-targeting-macau-billionaire-ng-lap?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2048531/us-prosecutors-targeting-macau-billionaire-ng-lap?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Nov 2016 01:36:43 +0000 A 56-year-old man was yesterday confirmed to be the city’s second imported Zika case, prompting the government to take extra mosquito control measures. The patient, who was in stable condition yesterday, received treatment under isolation in the North District Hospital. The man, who is in chronic condition and lived in San Tin, Yuen Long, developed a fever on November 8, and rash and diarrhoea last Friday, after travelling alone to New York, Antigua and Barbuda, St Maarten and Anguilla. He was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2046260/hong-kong-confirms-56-year-old-man-citys-second?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2046260/hong-kong-confirms-56-year-old-man-citys-second?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:31:48 +0000 The FBI last year questioned a Macau billionaire charged with participating in a bribery scheme at the United Nations about whether one of his partners was involved with Chinese foreign intelligence, according to court records. A transcript of a Federal Bureau of Investigation interview of Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng following his 2015 arrest was filed in federal court in Manhattan last week by his lawyers. In a motion, they noted FBI agents questioned Ng on whether he knew if a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2006452/did-he-know-fbi-asked-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2006452/did-he-know-fbi-asked-macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Aug 2016 23:51:02 +0000 A Macau billionaire accused of bribing a former United Nations General Assembly president on Thursday accused the US government of prosecuting him for geopolitical reasons to slow China’s influence over developing nations. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for real estate developer Ng Lap Seng said the case appeared intended to silence his advocacy for a conference centre in Macau, which would have given developing nations a permanent meeting venue in China. Ng and his... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2002645/macau-billionaire-accuses-us-persecution-over-un-bribery-scheme-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2002645/macau-billionaire-accuses-us-persecution-over-un-bribery-scheme-case?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:48:47 +0000 The former head of a New York-based foundation was sentenced on Friday to 20 months in prison for participating in a scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to a former UN General Assembly president. Sheri Yan, Global Sustainability Foundation’s former chief executive, was sentenced by US District Judge Vernon Broderick in Manhattan after pleading guilty in January to passing bribes to John Ashe, the former General Assembly president. Broderick, who also fined her US$12,500 and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1996866/ny-foundations-ex-chief-gets-20-months-prison-un?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1996866/ny-foundations-ex-chief-gets-20-months-prison-un?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Jul 2016 03:28:03 +0000 A US prosecutor said on Monday that Chinese officials were involved in developing a United Nations-focused news outlet that was used to funnel bribes from a Macau billionaire to a former UN General Assembly president who died last week. Assistant US Attorney Daniel Richenthal made that claim at a hearing in Manhattan federal court as he contended that a defence lawyer’s prior work for the Chinese government may create a potential conflict in representing the real estate mogul, Ng Lap... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1982451/us-prosecutors-link-chinese-officials-un-bribery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1982451/us-prosecutors-link-chinese-officials-un-bribery?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jun 2016 01:12:43 +0000 Former UN General Assembly president John Ashe of the twin-island Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda died on Wednesday in the United States as he was facing criminal charges in a bribery case involving Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng. He was 61. Ashe died at his home in Dobbs Ferry, New York, according to Sergeant Vincent Ingani, of the Dobbs Ferry Police Department. He gave no other details. Current UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft confirmed his death, saying Ashe died of a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1979915/death-former-un-assembly-president-john-ashe-accused?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/1979915/death-former-un-assembly-president-john-ashe-accused?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Jun 2016 04:24:15 +0000 An employee of Air China, who came onto the radar of US authorities as they probed Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng amid accusations that he bribed a UN General Assembly president, is now facing mysterious legal troubles of her own. The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier this month searched the home of Ying Lin, seizing 100 items, including computers and jewellery, her lawyer said last week at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. The search comes eight months after Lin, a US... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1937240/air-china-employee-linked-macau-billionaire-un-bribes-case-faces-her-own?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1937240/air-china-employee-linked-macau-billionaire-un-bribes-case-faces-her-own?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:57:36 +0000 The deputy ambassador to the United Nations from the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty to engaging in a years-long bribery and money laundering scheme involving a Macau billionaire and the former president of the UN’s General Assembly. Francis Lorenzo said he served as a middleman funnelling bribes to promote the business interests of Macau developer Ng Lap-seng, chairman of the Sun Kian Ip Group, while admitting to charges of conspiracy, money laundering, bribery and tax fraud. Some of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1926284/diplomat-pleads-guilty-un-bribery-scheme-linked-macau-billionaire-ng-lap?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1926284/diplomat-pleads-guilty-un-bribery-scheme-linked-macau-billionaire-ng-lap?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:00:30 +0000 US prosecutors who accuse a billionaire Macau businessman with top-level connections to Beijing and Washington of bribing a former senior United Nations official have secured a second guilty plea in the wider case. Chinese-American Sheri Yan, who heads a New York-based foundation implicated in the alleged racket, pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to bribe former UN General Assembly president John Ashe to advance the interests of various Chinese businesses. READ MORE: US secures first... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1903711/macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-bribery-case-second-suspect-pleads-guilty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1903711/macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-bribery-case-second-suspect-pleads-guilty?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:00:05 +0000 The lawyer of Macau tycoon Ng Lap-seng has played down the guilty plea by businesswoman Heidi Hong Piao in a bribery case involving a former United Nations Assembly president. “Her plea has nothing to do with Mr Ng’s case,” Benjamin Brafman said, when asked whether his defence strategy would change and if Ng maintained his innocence. Piao, 52, former finance director at a New York foundation, who was accused of taking part in a scheme to bribe a former UN General Assembly president, John Ashe,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1901889/lawyer-accused-macau-tycoon-ng-lap-seng-plays-down-guilty-plea-un-bribery?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1901889/lawyer-accused-macau-tycoon-ng-lap-seng-plays-down-guilty-plea-un-bribery?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:25:06 +0000 A former finance director at a New York foundation accused of participating in a scheme to bribe a former United Nations General Assembly president has become the first defendant to plead guilty in the case, which is linked to Macau billionaire Ng Lap Seng. The guilty plea on Thursday by Heidi Hong Piao to five counts, including bribery and money laundering, is a major break for US prosecutors examining an alleged conspiracy to bribe John Ashe, the former General Assembly president. Piao, 52,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1901242/us-secures-first-guilty-plea-un-bribery-case-linked-macau-billionaire-ng?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1901242/us-secures-first-guilty-plea-un-bribery-case-linked-macau-billionaire-ng?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:45:45 +0000 Billionaire Macau real estate developer Ng Lap Seng, who is accused by US authorities of bribing a former United Nations General Assembly president, has dropped his demand to go to trial immediately amid setbacks at his companies. In a letter filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, a lawyer for Ng, 68, said the Chinese citizen would withdraw a request for a speedy trial in the bribery case. The lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, gave no reason why Ng was no longer seeking a quick trial on charges... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1898024/macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-drops-bid-speedy-trial-un-bribery-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1898024/macau-billionaire-ng-lap-seng-drops-bid-speedy-trial-un-bribery-case?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Jan 2016 02:04:33 +0000