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CORRUPTION

Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 2, 2016
UR housing authority at center of Amari scandal contradicts Shukan Bunshun story
The semi-governmental housing corporation at the center of the scandal that forced Akira Amari to step down as economic minister has denied that his secretaries pressured it to favor a Chiba construction firm in a dispute, contradicting the magazine that broke the story.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2016
Putin's son-in-law boosted by $1.75 billion Russian state loan
The son-in-law of Vladimir Putin stands to benefit from $1.75 billion in cheap finance from the Russian state, a Reuters examination of public documents shows. The money will help fund a petrochemical project at a company in which Kirill Shamalov, husband of Katerina Tikhonova, the Russian president's...
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 28, 2016
Malaysia's top lawyer rejected advice to charge Najib: source
Malaysia's anti-graft agency had recommended that Prime Minister Najib Razak be charged with criminal misappropriation, a source said, amid growing outrage after the premier was cleared of any offenses in a multimillion-dollar scandal.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 27, 2016
Malaysian anti-graft agency seeks review of decision to clear Najib in corruption probe
Malaysia's anti-graft agency said Wednesday it will seek a review of a decision by the attorney general to clear Prime Minister Najib Razak in a graft investigation.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 20, 2016
China jails former party chief of Xinjiang's capital for graft
A court in Beijing on Wednesday sentenced a former Chinese Communist Party chief of Urumqi, the capital of the violence-prone far-western region of Xinjiang, to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 14, 2016
Ted Cruz reportedly did not disclose 2012 Senate campaign loan
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz failed to disclose to the Federal Election Commission a loan from Goldman Sachs for as much as $500,000 that was used to help finance his successful 2012 U.S. Senate campaign, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 12, 2016
China sets up new military units, including graft-busting team
China's military has set up 15 new units — covering everything from logistics to equipment development, political work and fighting corruption — as part of an ongoing drive to modernize the world's largest armed forces, the Defense Ministry said.
WORLD
Jan 11, 2016
Spanish Princess Cristina in court as fraud case begins
Spanish princess Cristina de Borbon has arrived in court as proceedings in a landmark fraud trial that became a lightning rod for anger at institutional corruption get under way.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 8, 2016
French financial prosecutor opens inquiry into Le Pen's wealth
The French financial prosecutor's office announced on Thursday it has launched a preliminary investigation into far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie Le Pen on suspicions that they misrepresented their wealth.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2016
Africa suffering under a yoke of corruption
The book 'The Looting Machine' by Tom Burgis explains why a continent blessed with one-third of the world's hydrocarbon and mineral wealth remains mired in poverty and dysfunction.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2015
China military says a plague of corruption persists in ranks
The "pathogen" of corruption persists within China's armed forces, the top Chinese military newspaper said on Wednesday, indicating that President Xi Jinping will sustain his sweeping crackdown on graft in the ranks into next year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2015
Disappearances highlight Chinese ruling party's detention system
The baffling disappearance of Chinese executives in recent weeks has drawn attention to the ruling Communist Party's practice of holding people incommunicado either as targets of investigations themselves or to help with probes of others.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 12, 2015
Chinese military paper warns of lost wars and shame if reforms are thwarted
China's military risks losing wars and bringing millennia of shame upon itself if it drags its heels on reform, the army's official newspaper said on Friday, warning that modernization of the armed forces is behind that of advanced foreign counterparts.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 8, 2015
Wanted: cosmopolitan, foreign language-speaking Chinese graft busters to hunt suspects abroad
China's efforts to take its anti-graft campaign global are being crimped by a serious lack of officials familiar with foreign languages and laws, the country's top newspaper said Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 8, 2015
Malaysia's Najib says 'conscience clear' as funding scandal festers
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he had done nothing wrong in receiving hundreds of millions of dollars into his personal bank accounts, as his party opened its annual meeting on Tuesday amid tensions over a festering funding scandal.
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2015
Pursuing transparency, Vatican orders external audit of assets
The Vatican said Saturday it had ordered the first external audit of its assets as part of a drive by Pope Francis to bring transparency to its finances where millions of euros have gone unrecorded without any central oversight.
WORLD
Dec 5, 2015
Malaysia's anti-graft agency questions Najib over multimillion-dollar deposits
Malaysian anti-corruption officials questioned Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday in an investigation into deposits of funds totalling 2.6 billion ringgit ($615.53 million) into his bank accounts that have prompted calls for his resignation.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2015
French tycoon Tapie says he faces total ruin after court ruling on disputed business deal
French tycoon Bernard Tapie says he faces "total ruin" after a court ordered him to repay more than €400 million over a disputed business deal.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

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