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News headlines for “Corruption”, page 42
CHINA: Melamine Milk - Penalties Disappoint Victims' Parents
- Inter Press Service
Days before families across China sit down for the Chinese New Year’s feast, the country’s leaders have moved to restore public confidence in the safety of their repast. A Chinese court has sentenced two men to death and awarded stiff sentences to others implicated in the country’s worst food-tampering scam.
VENEZUELA: Journalists Face Escalation of Violence
- Inter Press Service
With chilling calm, the killer dismounted from the motorbike, pulled out his gun and shot Ores Sambrano through the head as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The journalist was on his way to a video store on a busy avenue in Valencia, an industrial town 100 kilometres west of the Venezuelan capital.
FINANCE-US: Treasury Nominee Failed to Halt Bond Scam
- Inter Press Service
U.S. senators at Timothy Geithner's confirmation hearing for Treasury Secretary Wednesday may want to ask him about a failure to act that is costing the U.S. a lot more than the amount he evaded on taxes.
KENYA: Tourism Industry Picking Up Again After Election Violence
- Inter Press Service
As the eagerly awaited recovery in tourism after the election violence in Kenya takes off, bad news has come in the form of corruption allegations.
ZAMBIA: Corruption: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
- Inter Press Service
Zambia's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) received more than 2,000 corruption complaints from the public for 2008, the ACC yearly report states.
PERU: Navy Intelligence Agents Arrested for Moonlighting as Private Spies
- Inter Press Service
Peruvian prosecutors and police have busted a ring of active and retired Peruvian navy intelligence agents who moonlighted as telephone tapping experts allegedly engaged in spying.
INDIA: Satyam Scam Questions Corporate Governance
- Inter Press Service
India’s government, its corporate sector and its people are stunned after the founder-chairman of one of the country’s largest information technology (IT) services companies admitted to years of falsified profits and an audacious financial fraud worth 1.5 billion dollars.
PERU: No Crisis for Arms Purchases
- Inter Press Service
The global economic crisis apparently has not affected the Peruvian government’s plan to modernise the armed forces, which is to cost 650 million dollars from here to 2011.
POLITICS-BANGLADESH: Hasina Can Lay to Rest Ghosts of the Past
- Inter Press Service
With a stunning landslide victory under her belt, prime minister-elect Sheikh Hasina Wajed has a second opportunity to put the ghosts of the past to rest and release Bangladesh from a cycle of crises that has plagued this country since its violent birth in 1971.
BANGLADESH: Corrupt Politicians, Cleaner Polls
- Inter Press Service
Bangladesh goes to polls on Monday after a military-backed interim government spent two years trying to cleanse the country's electoral system of fraud and get rid of rampant corruption in public life.
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