The Johor state government was said to be considering a two-and-a-half-day weekend, with half of Friday, as well as Saturday and Sunday, as rest days.  

Many were disappointed by the city’s lacklustre effort to save Jumbo but felt that there were increasing restrictions on how people could express their views to those in power, says the Financial Times' Chan Ho-Him.

Unlike the US and Japan, China’s economic rise has not resulted in the yuan becoming a global currency. Beijing has not found the confidence to lift capital controls and make the yuan fully convertible, says the Financial Times’ Ruchir Sharma.

After years of being regarded as a global backwater where assistance has depended on agendas of donors, Pacific island nations find themselves itself in a newly influential position to negotiate better international aid deals, says this academic.