Two of the central alleged co-conspirators in the 1MDB scandal were convicted of financial crimes and sentenced to prison in Abu Dhabi wsj.com/articles/alleg… via @WSJ
The slain half brother of North Korea’s leader was a CIA informant who met on several occasions with agency operatives, a person knowledgeable about the matter said wsj.com/articles/north… via @WSJ
In Estonia, children are given a unique ID number and added to the grid from the moment they’re born. It’s all part of the country’s digital identity system—and the idea is catching on wsj.com/articles/the-d… via @WSJ
Reuters Reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were freed Tuesday after Myanmar’s president issued a blanket pardon for 6,520 prisoners wsj.com/articles/myanm… via @WSJ
China’s Belt and Road initiative has been criticized for advancing opaque financial deals that saddle participating countries with burdensome debt wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak lost his bid to delay the first of several trials related to the multibillion scandal surrounding 1MDB wsj.com/articles/1mdb-… via @WSJ
A Malaysian court freed an Indonesian woman accused of playing a role in the killing of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wsj.com/articles/woman… via @WSJ
Malaysia has filed money-laundering charges against Paul Stadlen, who was media adviser to former Prime Minister Najib Razak wsj.com/articles/malay… via @WSJ
U.S. prosecutors indicted former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng in November over the 1MDB scandal, and until Friday he had been fighting extradition wsj.com/articles/ex-go… via @WSJ