US senator demands answers from Singapore's ambassador on engineer death

Bloomberg, 7 Mar 2013
Baucus, a Montana Democrat, met on March 5 with Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S., Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, and said yesterday he has more meetings scheduled. Baucus is probing the June 2012 death of Shane Todd, who worked at the Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore, a unit of Singapore’s state-run Agency for Science, Technology and Research.
“I want to get to the bottom of it, and I made that very clear to him,” Baucus said in a brief interview in Washington. “And I’ll do what it takes to get to the bottom of it.”
Todd’s family, who live in Montana, had suggested in reports including in the Financial Times that his death may be tied to a project the institute was working on with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Full story