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Japan's Sanae Takaichi dissolves parliament after only 3 months in office, setting up snap electionJapan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved Parliament. A snap election is set for February 8. Takaichi seeks to boost her governin...
China maintains defence spending increase at 7.2%China will increase its defence spending by 7.2% this year, maintaining the same growth rate as last year. This move comes amid economic ch...
Shocking! Ageing banker weds son's ex-girlfriend after convincing him to dump herLiu Lianghe, ex-chairman of the Bank of China, faces a death sentence (suspended for two years) for misusing power, taking 141 crore in bri...
China executes official involved in country's largest corruption caseChina executed Li Jianping, a former Inner Mongolia official, for embezzling over $421 million, the largest corruption case in the nation's...
Inside the race to avert disaster at China’s biggest ‘bad bank’, the Huarong Asset Management CoHuarong Asset Management Co has been in full crisis mode ever since it delayed its 2020 earnings results, eroding investor confidence. Exec...
Ex-boss of China's top defence firm Norinco under scanner for corruptionYin, 65, is the latest high-level official from the defence industry to be netted by Chinese President Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-corruptio...
From Leonardo DiCaprio to Bill Clinton, celebrities who returned gifts tainted by scandalMiranda Kerr recently handed over jewellery worth over $8.1 mn after reports that they were bought by an allegedly corrupt Malaysian financ...
China's ex deputy security minister Li Dongsheng jailed for graftLi Dongsheng had ties to Zhou Yongkang, ex-security czar jailed for life in June in one of China's biggest ever corruption scandals.
Lalit Bhanot elected veep of Asian Athletics Association; Kalmadi life presidentScam-tainted former IOA Secretary General Lalit Bhanot was today elected vice-President of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) in polls h...
China's People's Liberation Army beefs up anti-graft drive after series of scandalsForty-four "high-risk links" and more than 130 problems that should be tracked, as well as clear prevention measures, have been laid out.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc executive caught off-guard by China graft chargesPolice charged Mark Reilly with multiple offences after a 10-month probe found the firm made billions of yuan from schemes to bribe doctors.
Chinese police charge British former GSK China head with briberyMark Reilly and two Chinese executives, Zhang Guowei and Zhao Hongyan, were also suspected of bribing officials in the industry.
Fallen Chinese leader Bo Xilai to stand trial on August 22Bo Xilai, charged with bribery, corruption and abuse of power, will be put on "open trial" on August 22, state media said.
GlaxoSmithKline emerging markets head sent to handle China crisis: SourceGlaxoSmithKline has sent its head of emerging markets to China to lead the drugmaker's response to an unfolding crisis over alleged bribery...
- Star India employees trained in anti-corruption: James Murdoch
Setting out his efforts to enhance corporate governance in Murdoch-owned companies after the phone-hacking scandal, he said in his witness ...
- Transparency International corruption index: India drops to 95th position
In a reaffirmation of the general perception, India has dropped 11 places to be ranked 95th in the Transparency International Corruption In...
- A new low: India sinks in global corruption ranking
Corruption in India has worsened over the past year, according to a new study released by Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-c...
- Investors won't stop coming to India because of scams: Jim Walker
Jim Walker, managing director, Asianomics in an interview to ET said funds will flow into gold and bonds from equities in 2011.
Quantity, not quality, in our growthThe reform process has failed to democratise itself. A higher quality of life is not just an outcome of growth but its essential input of s...
- China anti-graft website crashes on too many hits
A Chinese government website encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits.