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CORRUPTION

WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2013
U.S. Navy suspends another officer in bribery investigation
The U.S. Navy announced Thursday it has suspended another official — the seventh in two months — for his alleged ties to a major Singapore-based defense contractor accused of fraud and bribery in a scandal that continues to escalate.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 14, 2013
Secret Service alleged abuse is investigated
A call from a hotel reporting that a Secret Service agent was trying to force his way into a woman's room has set in motion an internal investigation and sent tremors through an agency that is still trying to restore its elite reputation.
WORLD
Nov 13, 2013
New fraud probe nets U.S. Navy officials
Federal authorities are investigating three senior navy intelligence officials as part of a probe into an alleged contracting scheme that charged the military $1.6 million for homemade firearms silencers that cost only $8,000 to make, court records show.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2013
U.S. Navy admirals in growing bribery probe
Two U.S. admirals — including the director of naval intelligence — are under investigation as part of a major bribery scandal involving a foreign defense contractor, navy officials announced Friday night.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2013
Competition shakes up Italian rail
In the land where train schedules were once rough estimates and riding a chugging "locale" could feel like traveling by mechanical bull, the hypermodern Italo locomotives aimed to shake up the state-controlled world of Italian rail.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 20, 2013
U.S. Navy rocked by bribery scandal
The U.S. Navy is rocked by a bribery scandal reaching high into the officer corps over prostitutes, cash and other kickbacks in return for insider information.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2013
U.S. helped asylum-seeker Wang tell Beijing about Bo in 2012: Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has disclosed new information about the United States' role in a major 2012 diplomatic incident in which a Chinese official sought asylum at a U.S. consulate but was turned away. The incident — which helped trigger the downfall of prominent Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, one of China's biggest political scandals in decades — has long been shrouded in a degree of mystery.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 18, 2013
Profit quest leads big pharma down wrong road
As prescription drug sales in the U.S. stagnate, the drug industry is relying more on markets in China and African countries. But expansion often is tainted by unsavory business practices.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 11, 2013
Illegal taps on oil pipeline wreaking havoc on Nigeria
The flames roared 20 meters above the Niger delta swamp for 48 hours; 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the creeks and waterways around the village of Bodo and several people died.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2013
As China targets graft, bribes abound in schools
For years, Yang Jie's friends warned her to save up for her daughter's education. Not for tuition or textbooks, but for the bribes needed to get into the city's better public schools.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2013
India's wealthy must open gates and fight chaos
Even well-to-do Indians, whose disengagement has made the erosion of public institutions possible, can no longer escape the extortion and lawlessness that the less lucky have always faced.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2013
Parts of fallen star's legacy may yet survive
Ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai's prospects of an eventual comeback evaporated Sunday after he was sentenced to life in prison and permanently deprived of all political rights, but aspects of his legacy may live on, experts said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 22, 2013
Bo sentenced to life in prison over corruption
Ousted Chinese Communist Party heavyweight Bo Xilai gets life in prison for corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power as the fallen star's heavily publicized trial concludes.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2013
Activist Chinese billionaire detained
Last month, Chinese police invited Wang Gongquan in for a "cup of tea," often a prelude to detention. He had launched a public petition calling for the release of arrested dissident Xu Zhiyong, and the authorities were not amused. But Wang effectively told the police to forget it — he had no time for tea, he was traveling, and he had said everything he wanted to say.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2013
Taiwan president, party hit by scandal and rifts
A widening political scandal is threatening to split Taiwan's ruling party and potentially set back efforts to build closer economic ties with China.
EDITORIALS
Sep 4, 2013
Conflicts of interest in drug research
Oversight of pharmaceutical companies' corporate donations to universities, and the roles played by their employees in university drug research, must be strengthened to prevent conflicts of interests from tainting the results of clinical research.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 28, 2013
Belarus arrest of potash tycoon angers top ally Russia
As Belarus television showed the Russian head of OAO Uralkali, the world's biggest potash producer, being led around the courtyard of an undisclosed prison, Anatoly Lebedko knew exactly where it was: Amerikanka.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2013
Top challenger detained as Moscow's race for mayor heats up
Mayoral Candidate A raises questions about Candidate B's campaign literature. The police, who report to the incumbent, Candidate C, respond by raiding the print shop where the literature is produced. Candidate D raises a stink, because he was using the same printing firm.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2013
Bo Xilai's bribery trial begins with China courts in spotlight
The trial of former Politburo member Bo Xilai over bribery and embezzlement begings, with China's judiciary as much in the spotlight as the man at the center of the country's most politically charged case in 30 years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 19, 2013
Officials search for fortune of Chun Doo-hwan, South Korea's last dictator
South Korea's last dictator lives in an L-shaped mansion protected by 5-meter stone walls and a plainclothes security team. He almost never goes outside, his longtime lawyer says, given the scrutiny he would face. Highlighting the extent of change in the nation he once ruled, Chun Doo-hwan is whiling away his golden years in a home that is a virtual prison.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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