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...allegations of corruption every bit as audacious as Estrada's. During the 2004 election, Arroyo was recorded talking on the phone to Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. Her political enemies charged that the oddly oblique conversation concerned the massaging of voting returns - a charge Arroyo has denied. The resulting impeachment attempt in the country's lower house of Congress was blocked by Arroyo's political allies. Her courting of foreign investment has also drawn fire. In early October, Arroyo canceled a $329 million contract with Chinese company ZTE to build a government broadband network after a businessman who had submitted...
...group of governors, admitted giving the cash for what they described as development initiatives. Arroyo's critics, however, claim the money was intended to win support among lawmakers for an intentionally defanged impeachment complaint that would inoculate Arroyo against a more serious proceeding. (Under the constitution, Congress can only attempt to impeach the President once a year). The allegations underscore just how toxic the political atmosphere has become: Arroyo's administration is being accused of bribing lawmakers to support her own impeachment. "What galls the public was that it was done so flagrantly," says political analyst and newspaper columnist Manuel...
...will open near Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Ground has already been broken for a pair of casino complexes in Singapore. The Philippine government is planning to open a 100-acre (405,000-square-meter) gaming complex that will employ 40,000 Filipinos in Manila Bay. In an attempt to lure Chinese gamblers over the border, Kazakhstan is creating the "Las Vegas of the steppe" in Kapchagai and Shchuchinsk. Governments in Taiwan, Thailand and Japan are considering legalizing casinos. According to Merrill Lynch, gaming companies are expected to spend $71 billion in Asia over the next four years alone...
Today marks the last day for Harvard student groups, including final clubs, to register the names of their officers with the College to comply with its revised hazing policy.The deadline comes under a new attempt to regulate events sponsored by student groups and athletic teams, which the administration hopes will curtail hazing and decrease unsafe and underage drinking.According to the Handbook for Students, party hosts or officers of the sponsoring group can be held responsible for “harm or the potential for serious harm” to a student resulting from the consumption of drugs or alcohol...
...most of his six months in office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sought to lead by example: using his own relentless pace to inspire French citizens to work longer hours, achieve higher efficiency, and renew their love of labor. The effort is central to Sarkozy's attempt to boost economic growth through a nationwide increase in workforce productivity - a goal that requires motivating people to toil beyond the nation's legal 35-hour-workweek limitation, and, as he has put it, "Work more to earn more." But now Sarkozy is applying that slogan to himself with unexpected literalness...