(Reuters photo)WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump defended his daughter, White House adviser Ivanka Trump, on Monday after she raised some eyebrows over the weekend by taking his place at a table with world leaders at a G20 meeting. She briefly sat in her father's chair at the global gathering in Hamburg during a closed-door session on African development as the World Bank president spoke. Ivanka Trump ran a clothing and jewellery business before taking a formal job at the White House after her father took office in January. At the G20, she also took the spotlight at a separate event alongside World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and other world leaders to launch a public-private loan programme aimed at boosting female entrepreneurs in developing countries. "There is no precedent for a head of government’s adult child taking a seat," he wrote in the Washington Post on Sunday.

Source: Bangkok Post July 10, 2017 13:52 UTC