January 14, 2012
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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January 3, 2012
France’s health ministry has said there is no cancer risk from breast implants made by local firm PIP but recommended to the 30,000 women with implants to have them removed after eight cases of cancer. France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a [...]
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November 24, 2011
Former Olympus president Michael Woodford, who exposed the company’s loss coverup scandal, met with Japanese investigators on Thursday over a cover-up of the company’s massive investment losses dating back to the 1990s The ousted chief of scandal-hit Olympus, Michael Woodford, on Thursday began meeting Japanese investigators over a cover-up of huge investment losses dating back [...]
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October 29, 2011
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung wants to monitor case progress in Australia Bundles of polymer dong banknotes in Hanoi. The central government has reported to lawmakers that police have found no evidence of bribery in a high-profile international currency-printing scandal. The Ministry of Public Security has yet to find evidence that an Australian currency-printing [...]
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October 21, 2011
Rupert Murdoch faces a firestorm Friday at his News Corporation’s annual shareholders’ meeting, amid calls for him and his sons to be ousted after the phone hacking scandal in Britain. But given that his family control about 40 percent of the shares, and that Murdoch-backing billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns an additional [...]
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July 20, 2011
News Corporation Chief Rupert Murdoch gives evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee on the phone hacking scandal Prime Minister David Cameron arrived back in Britain to face a grueling parliamentary examination on Wednesday over the phone-hacking scandal, a day after Rupert Murdoch told lawmakers he was not to blame for the crisis. Cameron returned to [...]
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July 16, 2011
Vietnam is ready to cooperate with Australian authorities in their investigation of an international pay-to-play currency scandal, the foreign ministry’s spokeswoman told the press Thursday.  According to Nguyen Phuong Nga, Australian justice officials notified Vietnam that it had arrested six former officers of the Securency International Pty and Note Printing Australia Ltd., a pair of banknote printing firms. [...]
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January 22, 2011
Model-turned-singer Truong Tri Truc Diem (L) tallks to psychiatrist Huynh Van Son (R) during a ‘Singer’s Day’ discussion. More than 200 popular as well as upcoming artists participated in “Singer’s Day,” a discussion on celebrity behavior in Quang Ninh Province on Monday, January 17. Contrary to the hopes of the audience and the media, the [...]
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January 27, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The People’s Supreme Procuracy on January 25 approved a prosecution, for taking bribes, against Huynh Ngoc Si, former director of the Japan-funded East-West Avenue project. Huynh Ngoc Si left the court in HCM City last September. The scandal relating to the management board of the East-West avenue project was prosecuted 13 months ago. This [...]
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January 1, 2010
Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren (L) watch Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball game in Orlando, Florida June 11, 2009. AT&T Inc said on Thursday it was terminating its sponsorship agreement with Tiger Woods, joining the list of companies that have distanced themselves from the top golfer in the wake of a [...]
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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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