(January 27, 2005) Riggs Bank pleaded guilty to failing to report suspicious financial transactions, including more than $10 million deposited by former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The judge said a $16 million fine agreed to by prosecutors may not be enough.
Dealing the debt
(January 27, 2005) As the ‘Make Poverty History’ lobby takes up a new call for redistribution between the first and third worlds Jon Harle wonders what part debt actually plays in poverty.
Oil/food probe to ask more of Annan
(January 26, 2005) Investigators probing charges of impropriety in the UN oil-for-food program have questioned Secretary-General Kofi Annan about his involvement and will do so again, a UN spokesman has said.
‘Outposts of tyranny’ list is selective
(January 25, 2005)The list is as interesting for the countries it leaves out as for the countries it includes.
Corner House double victory
(Jan. 25, 2005) On UK government department’s anti-bribery rules and public interest litigation.
Up against the past
(January 23, 2005) The last time Iraq tried a parliamentary system, it ended in failure, under circumstances not unlike today’s.
Pinochet ‘secret’ accounts sought
(January 20, 2005) A Chilean judge is to launch an international search for secret bank accounts belonging to former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet.
Argentina apologizes for debt fiasco amid hostility
(January 20, 2005) As hostility to Argentina’s debt swap offer spread from Italy to Germany, Argentina made a rare apology on television to Italian bondholders, most of them pensioners, who bought the country’s bonds before a default three years ago.
The Story of the Dahe Dam
(January 20, 2005) A fascinating, detailed account of the years-long struggle for redress pursued by thousands of people who were plunged deeper into poverty by the construction of the Dahe dam. Many of the farmers uprooted for that dam, built 30 years ago on a Yangtze tributary in what is now Chongqing municipality, are being moved again for the Three Gorges project.
Rice targets 6 ‘outposts of tyranny’
(January 19, 2005) Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice yesterday branded six countries, including Iran and North Korea, as "outposts of tyranny," coining a term reminiscent of President Bush’s "axis of evil" three years ago.
Dai Qing’s introduction to The Story of the Dahe Dam
(January 19, 2005) ‘To learn more about what goes on behind the scenes in China, this book about the ruinous consequences of one small dam is an excellent place to start,’ Dai Qing writes in her introduction to the English translation of Ying Xing’s groundbreaking work.
Spotlight on Kofi
(January 19, 2005) US federal prosecutors made public this week their first conviction in the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
Time to find embezzled millions: opinion
(January 18, 2005) Money embezzled and hidden in foreign banks by African government officials is a potential new source of funds for the continent, a US-based academic has suggested.
Rice vows to pursue oil-for-food scandal
(January 18, 2005) The U.N. oil-for-food program for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was scandalously mismanaged and will be reviewed as an important item in President Bush’s second term, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
Yudhoyono plans anti-corruption measures
(January 17, 2005) Indonesia’s new government is expected to announce fresh anti-corruption initiatives, including a review of the regulations that let the former strongman Suharto avoid prosecution by pleading ill-health.
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