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News headlines for “Corruption”, page 43
PAKISTAN: Like Other Assassinations Bhutto's Remains a Mystery
- Inter Press Service
'The chapter is closed, and the Pakistan People’s Party [PPP] is dead. It doesn’t matter who killed her,' said Mohammad Sharif, a young driver working for a voluntary agency, referring to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on Dec. 27 last year.
FINANCE: Crisis Pits Vatican Against Offshore Bankers
- Inter Press Service
The financial crisis has the U.S. swirling with charges about the immoral greed of some corporate executives who recklessly bet their companies' futures to line their own pockets. The popular fix for this international calamity stops at the nation's borders: decouple top-line salaries and bonuses from stock prices and institute more transparency and regulation.
FINANCE-US: AIG's Offshore Strategies Hide a Scam
- Inter Press Service
The company getting the biggest U.S. bailout operated a scam to help clients cheat on U.S. taxes, regulators say. It is AIG, American International Group, the world's largest insurance conglomerate.
FINANCE-US: AIG's Past Could Return To Haunt
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. will invest 40 billion dollars in American International Group (AIG), and will provide credit lines that could bring federal funding up to 144 billion dollars. It's the largest subsidy that a U.S. corporation has ever received.
CORRUPTION: Little Movement Against Tax Havens
- Inter Press Service
As many feared, little action has resulted from the latest attempt to move against tax havens.
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Protestors Pedal to Parliament, Brave Police
- Inter Press Service
Dozens of cyclists promoting workers' rights are on an extraordinary odyssey across the country, scheduled to climax with the handing over of memorandums in Parliament on Thursday.
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Badawi's 'Toothless Bills' Harm Reform Agenda - Critics
- Inter Press Service
By tabling two of three reform bills, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has shown his hand and, not surprisingly, both have run into strong opposition within and outside parliament.
IRAQ: Looking After Pockets, Not Patients
- Inter Press Service
A nurse at Baquba General Hospital asked Ahmed Ali, who co-authored this report, for a bribe to look after his sick baby. It was hardly an exceptional demand. Patients around Iraq have begun commonly to speak of the need to bribe medical staff to get some form of care.
POLITICS: Thai Elites Install Their Man as Premier
- Inter Press Service
Almost a year after his party suffered its third consecutive electoral defeat, Abhisit Vijjajiva rode to victory to become Thailand’s new prime minister, the third this year. It was not a choice of the voters, though.
POLITICS: Thailand's Poor Discover Vote Power
- Inter Press Service
Prateep Ungsongtham recalls a vastly different mood a decade ago when she tested the political pulse of the urban poor living in Klong Toey, Bangkok’s largest slum.
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