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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December 19, 2011
Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group. The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine, the firm’s former CEO who just testified [...]
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December 17, 2011
View of the entrance of the new headquarters of Google France before its official inauguration in Paris December 6, 2011. The most powerful group at Google Inc used to be known simply as “The OC,” short for operating committee. Now, it goes by a more telling name: “L Team,” short for Larry’s Team. The change [...]
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November 15, 2011
A southern Vietnamese provincial court worked with the local Communist Party unit Tuesday over accusations that a local senior judge had illicit relations with his subordinate, who is another man’s wife. Â Huynh Hong Thang, vice presiding judge of the People’s Court of Soc Trang town in Soc Trang Province, was accused of sharing [...]
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August 31, 2011
The American International Group (AIG) building is seen in New York's financial district March 16, 2009. Top Bank of America Corp lawyers knew as early as January that American International Group Inc was prepared to sue the bank for more than $10 billion, seven months before the lawsuit was filed, according to sources familiar with [...]
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August 9, 2011
Professor Vo Quy Vietnam’s Agent Orange campaign has made the US government start to act, by educating them on the environmental and social impacts in Vietnam, a Vietnamese professor and activist has said.  Professor Vo Quy, lecturer at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and one of the first members of the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, [...]
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May 24, 2011
 (L-R) Four Filipinos, Estreuta M. Debelem, Aserdin Cadion Eduardo, Pineda Sevilla Regina, and Elizag Jovito Corpuz, were arrested in Ho Chi Minh City on May 3, 2010 in a gambling con investigation. They were released and not charged with the crime. Last May, Ho Chi Minh City police arrested four Filipino nationals as they [...]
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November 17, 2009
Vincom Joint-Stock Co., Vietnamâs second-biggest listed property company, raised $100 million from the countryâs first overseas sale of convertible bonds, according to a person familiar with the matter. The 6 percent notes have a 5 percent conversion premium, said the person, who asked not to be named as theyâre not authorized to discuss the matter.Credit [...]
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June 19, 2009
The AIA building, where AIG founder C.V. Starr first O BE G established the company in 1919, stands in the historic Bund district, of Shanghai, China AIG, the insurer selling assets to repay a US government bailout, picked Deutsche Bank AG and Morgan Stanley to handle the initial public offering of an Asian life insurance [...]
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March 31, 2009
A resident from Ky Son Commune in Ha Tinh Province removes a foamy mud buildup to show cassava waste accumulated on the bank of the Rao Tro River. MSG and starch maker Vedan has admitted to polluting a north-central river just six months after authorities caught the company spewing waste into a southland river. 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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