Indonesian President Prabowo fired Mulyani after she offered to resign twice

JAKARTA: Over the last weekend in August, after her house was ransacked by looters, Indonesia’s then-Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati travelled to President Prabowo Subianto’s country estate in the Hambalang hills in West Java. She planned to resign. The country had just been rattled by its worst unrest in years. This was at least her second...

China kindergarten principal fired for accepting chocolate gift worth less than US$1, sues school

BEIJING: A nursery school in China fired its principal because she accepted a small box of chocolates, worth US$0.85, from a pupil. Wang, the head of Sanxia Kindergarten in Chongqing, southwestern China, took legal action against her former employer after being dismissed in September last year, reported China National Radio. Surveillance footage of the nursery showed a...