An internal investigation into an alleged large-scale fuel fraud at Sri Lanka’s Norochcholai Lakvijaya coal power plant has found that diesel worth more than Rs160 million issued for the facility was not
Senior former employees of CapitaLand Group Pte allegedly accepted bribes from a longtime contractor in India, according to court filings in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. The accusations surfaced in a civil lawsuit brought
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A former senior official at China’s securities regulator has been expelled from the Communist Party after investigators discovered up to 300 million yuan (HK$326 million) in cash at his residence, according to
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The UAE, the United Arab Emirates, is a cancer spreading in Africa. This cancer has infected much of east Africa and is spreading into northern, central and western parts of the continent. The
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China’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign is exposing a significant change in the politics of ethnic minority regions, as several senior officials from non-Han communities have come under investigation this year. The scrutiny began
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Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested late Tuesday in a sweeping investigation into allegations ranging from stock manipulation to bribery, prosecutors confirmed. The Seoul
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Home to almost 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Delaware’s reputation as America’s “corporate capital” has faced challenges in recent years. Tesla’s and SpaceX’s high-profile exits to Texas in 2024 highlighted other cracks in Delaware’s seamless
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The recent launch of the City of Dreams integrated resort by Melco has reignited debate over the future of Sri Lanka’s tourism identity, with some commentators calling for the country to position
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For the first time in over three years of war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s nearly absolute political control over Ukraine is being openly challenged by mass street protests. Thousands of young Ukrainians gathered
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Sri Lanka Customs has detained nearly 1,000 Chinese-made BYD electric vehicles after discovering discrepancies in the declared motor capacities used for tax calculation — a move that could expose a multimillion-rupee tax
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The summer in Paris promises to be a tempestuous one for prosecutors, politicians, and power brokers alike, as Rachida Dati, the city’s culture minister and one of its most formidable political figures,
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Rachida Dati, France’s high-profile culture minister and candidate for mayor of Paris, is facing trial alongside Carlos Ghosn, the fugitive former auto executive, over an alleged corruption deal worth €900,000, equivalent to
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The legacy of Zong Qinghou, once China’s richest man and founder of the iconic Wahaha beverage empire, has been plunged into turmoil as his daughter and presumed heir faces a legal battle
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Jho Low, the elusive Malaysian businessman at the center of the notorious 1MDB scandal, remains a fugitive nearly a decade after authorities uncovered what is widely considered the largest financial fraud in
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Nearly three months after her dramatic departure from the presidential residence, South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon-hee is now at the center of a growing corruption scandal that threatens to further
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A storm of controversy has erupted in Sri Lanka’s insurance and governance sectors following revelations that an unlicensed foreign insurance broker with a history of high-profile bribery
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