Astro and Lippo head back to Singapore over legal dispute


SINGAPORE: A long-running and tempestuous legal wrangle between two of South-East Asia’s corporate bigwigs over a failed tie-up in Indonesia will play out once again in Singapore’s courts next week.

Malaysia’s Astro, a satellite broadcast operator controlled by T. Ananda Krishnan, and First Media, a unit of Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group led by James Riady, have been embroiled in a three-year legal tussle.

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