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...around 600 already stationed in Iraq, the third-largest contribution to coalition forces after the U.S. and Britain. The move prompted angry clashes between police and antiwar campaigners in Seoul. The soldiers will be deployed in the northern city of Kirkuk beginning in April. Bad Publicity CANADA The Auditor General condemned the government's "blatant misuse of public funds" after it funneled more than $75 million from a public-advertising program to firms close to the ruling Liberals. Prime Minister Paul Martin - Finance Minister during most of the six-year-long scheme - denied he was party to it, and ordered...
...wasn't such an amateurish fraud detected earlier? Grant Thornton, Parmalat's primary auditor for most of the 1990s and still auditor of some of its subsidiaries, initially said it too had been duped. But on New Year's Eve, Grant Thornton suspended the head of its Italian affiliate and another partner after the two were arrested as part of the investigation. The men have denied any wrongdoing...
...auditor independence." He's voting to remove four BSkyB board members that he deems too close to News Corp. The National Association of Pension Funds wants to vote out the director who led the CEO search, Lord St. John of Fawsley, and opposes a payout to ex-CEO Tony Ball. A BSkyB spokesman says James is committed to dividends "in the future." If the Murdochs were to sell tickets to Friday's clash, they could pay dividends now. - By Mark Halper Will The Elves Unionize? L ong before Santa loads up this Christmas, the real work will have been done...
...Choi case (the Blue House did not respond to repeated requests from TIME for comment). But with blood in the water, Roh's conservative enemies in the Grand National Party (GNP) have been on the attack. In late September, they blocked Roh's nominee for the country's top auditor post and passed a no-confidence motion against Home Affairs Minister Kim Doo Gwan, who was dismissed last month. Lately, they've used a series of annual legislative hearings on government affairs to air allegations that Roh illegally hid real estate assets under the name of his brother, chauffeur...
...through the restaurant, carrying a giant prosciutto and making espresso, he sings - in Italian, of course. His wife smiles at him from beside the wood-burning pizza oven. This is an Italian restaurant, dammit. But it's not for me to say. The Italians arrive at 10 a.m. The auditor, Sergio Trombetta from Rome, sets up at a table in the back. (Trombetta works for DNV, a certification company the government hired to do the audits and which is, interestingly, based in Norway.) Benedetto and his wife sit beside him, a thick file of newspaper clippings and notes from happy...