Fighting corruption must become a priority in post-election Iraq Daily Star Lebanon | By Abbas Kadhim | Commentary by | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | With parliamentary elections now over in Iraq, among the many challenges the country faces to establishing democracy and the rule of law, promoting economic and human development, and abolishing terrorist safe haven...
RP 4th most corrupt on Asia-Pacific list The Daily Tribune | By Michaela P. del Callar | 03/10/2010 | It is no surprise that the Philippines under President Arroyo is again still in the bottom list of corrupt economies. | The Philippines slid two notches from sixth place last year and has remained on the bottom list of most corrupt Asia-Pacific economies, r...
Fraud and corruption is costing Britain £30 billion a year The Times | It is almost 25 years since the Roskill Report published its radical recommendations for improving the way complex fraud, corruption and financial market crimes are tackled. | In that time the complexity of business transactions and the amount of a...
Lawyers strike against corruption in judiciary The Times Of India NEW DELHI: Lawyers of all district courts have decided to strike work on Thursday to protest against rising corruption in the judiciary. | The co-ordination committee of all the bar associations is also protesting against the "overlooking of public i...
Panels to keep tabs on poll graft Deccan Chronicle Panels to keep tabs on poll graft | March 10: As the nominations closed Wednesday evening for the March 27 by-election for the Pennagaram Assembly seat, the state chief electoral officer Nar-esh Gupta announced setting up local committees ‘to ensur...
2010 polls and socio-political scene The Daily Tribune | VIEWPOINTS | 03/11/2010 | It is neither a shocking revelation nor a profound conclusion that the rather long since ugly and repulsive obtaining socio-political situation in the country is definitely far from the proper setting for holding a peacefu...
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Politics and retail a no-win mix Philadelphia Daily News | EMILY FREDRIX and GREG BLUESTEIN | The Associated Press | NEW YORK - Guns. Religion. Abortion. These are the no-win arguments that spoil family gatherings , and the stuff of reta...
RP is 4th most corrupt country in Southeast Asia—poll Inquirer | MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines is ranked as the fourth most corrupt country in Southeast Asia out of 16 surveyed by over 2,000 expatriate businessmen, according to an annu...
India ranks 99 in world's women participation in politics IBN Live New Delhi: As the country debates the women's reservation bill, data on parliaments across the world show that India, the largest democracy, lags much behind other countries includ...
Teachers' union leads list of biggest political spenders Fresno Bee | - dwalters@sacbee.com thefresnobee_994:/2010/03/10/1854238/teachers-union-leads-list-of-biggest.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | The California Teachers Association has spent more than $200 million on campaign ...
'Granny D,' political activist who walked across U.S. at age 89, dies at 100 Seattle Times CONCORD, N.H. - | Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate, has died. She was 100. | Haddock died Tuesday night of c...
Jetton arrives for testimony in corruption case Kansas City Star More News | Former House Speaker Rod Jetton has arrived for his showdown testimony with a federal grand jury that's investigating Jetton and Statehouse corruption. | Jetton, a Republican from Marble Hill, arrived at the downtown federal courthouse wi...
China's Exports Rise 46% The New York Times | BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month of increases in Chinese exports and the fastest gro...
Statement by the Exiled Tibetan Prime Minister on the 51st Anniversary of National Uprising Day WorldNews.com Dharamshala: Today - 10 March 2010 - marks the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising against the Chinese authorities. On this momentous day, the Kashag pays homage to the brave men and women of Tibet who have laid down their lives for our spiritual and temporal cause. The Kashag also, in solidarity with those Tibetan compatriot...
