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Singapore could turn a governance crisis into an opportunity. Its transport minister S. Iswaran and Ong Beng Seng, the property billionaire credited with bringing Formula One to the city, were arrested and released on bail last week. The rare high-profile probe involving a public official by the hub’s anti-graft agency is a timely test of the Asian centre’s willingness to act tough on corruption.

It’s almost a new dawn in videogames. After opposing Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard , Sony has signed an agreement over the latter's "Call of Duty" title. It will help the $2.6 trillion company appease regulatory holdouts, but Sony benefits too.

Australians are a sports-mad lot. So it’s fitting that one of the country’s most hotly contested deals involving overseas private equity firms is for Rugby Australia. CVC Capital Partners and Silver Lake are just two of the seven players, reports the Australian Financial Review, trying out to join the ownership team of the game’s national governing body. It’s an unusually competitive battle in a slow year for financial sponsors. It’s also a teaser for the deal fest buyout shops are gearing up for Down Under.

India’s semiconductor dreams are facing a harsh reality. After struggling to woo cutting-edge chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to set up operations in the country, the government may now have to settle for producing less-advanced chips instead. Yet that’s no mere consolation prize: the opportunity to grab share from China in this commoditised but vital part of the tech supply chain could pay off.

Just when you thought it was safe to hope interest rates might soon peak, along comes more bad news. It looks likely that the El Nino weather phenomenon has returned, according to both the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Its appearance usually results in, or exacerbates, floods, heatwaves, water scarcity and wildfires, especially in the southern hemisphere. The damage these inflict on crops and infrastructure is inflationary, putting pressure on central banks to tighten monetary policy. If climate change makes such events str...