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Professionals on the Move is a round-up of recent hiring and promotion announcements from around the profession and supporting accounting space.

An elderly man in the United States sent about US$5.3 million (S$7 million) to multiple accounts over more than a year after he was told he could claim an inheritance of property in Singapore. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com

Nine Orange County billionaires made the Forbes' list of the 400 wealthiest individuals in America.

Where a plaintiff has filed a complaint alleging a failure to pay for cabinets manufactured and shipped by the plaintiff, the counts for promissory estoppel and quantum meruit should not be dismissed despite the defendants’ argument that those claims are precluded by the existence of an express contract in the form of a purchase order.

Chapman University's new dean of the Argyros School of Business and Economics, Henrik Cronqvist, discusses the vital link between the Orange County business environment and the growth of Asian-Pacific local business investment in recent years, alongside Robert Koepp, director of Chapman's new Asia-Pacific Geoeconomics and Business Initiative.

The Foreign Investment Review Board did not allow Northern Minerals' largest shareholder to boost stake on grounds of national interest.

Robert Braithwaite likes to use a new phrase to describe what Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian is doing—“privademics.”

Philanthropists for Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian tend to be former patients of the Newport Beach-based hospital system.

A cultural production hosted by the firm’s Perth office was embraced by hundreds of employees and their families to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

More than 150 people were evacuated from a Housing Board block in Ang Mo Kio on Friday night after combustible gas leaked into the air. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com