China has adopted a new law targeting cross-border corruption and ratified an agreement establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, as part of a series of legislative decisions approved by the Standing
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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Swiss authorities have raided the offices of prominent financial blog Inside Paradeplatz and the private home of its editor, journalist Lukas Hässig, in connection with alleged violations of the country’s strict banking
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been officially excluded from the prestigious National Order of the Legion of Honor, according to a state decree published on Sunday. The revocation follows Sarkozy’s 2022
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As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces mounting scrutiny in two high-profile investigations, agents of the Shin Bet internal security service are reportedly growing increasingly reluctant to participate—fearful of becoming targets in
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The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is reported to have said, quoting the Attorney General’s (AG’s) Department that the questionable reduction of the special commodity levy (SCL) on imported sugar in 2020, during
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Editorial On a sultry afternoon, under the cracked sky of a country disfigured by generations of theft and mediocrity, a decades-old Airbus A330-200 took a slow, theatrical descent into Katunayake. It flew
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A grave public health crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka as the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has released a damning report exposing dozens of widely-used beauty and
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by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor in Colombo A wave of frustration is sweeping through several foreign diplomatic missions in Sri Lanka, as envoys publicly voice their outrage over what they describe as
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