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...Nepal. But Yudhoyono made tackling corruption a pillar of his first term. In a country where leaders are expected to protect their own family or clan even at the expense of the state, S.B.Y. didn't stand in the way of the corruption conviction last month of a prominent banker whose daughter is married to the President's own son. (See pictures of a deadly dam burst near Jakarta...
...wife Jenny, a former investment banker, in the Hamptons when they both lived in New York. A millionaire heiress to a family fortune from the Skil Corp. power-tool company, she ran most of Sanford's campaigns and was a close adviser in the governor's office. They have four sons...
...convince some voters that SBY remains the best man for the job. "SBY may be a bit dull and is not about fiery rhetoric, but at least he has stood behind his principles," says Hidayat Jati, an executive in the media industry. "Even his in-law [former central banker Aulia Pohan] has been put in jail for corruption. People like seeing that the élite are no longer above...
...political football in Australia - in a manner, indeed, that dwarfed the fireworks in the U.S. when state-owned CNOOC tried to acquire UNOCAL. Opponents of the Australia deal went so far as to sponsor television commercials that actually invoked the June 4, 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. A banker close to the Chinalco side of the deal said management there was "deeply disappointed" by some of the rhetoric used by opponents of the deal. In fact, this source says, Chinalco had in many respects "gone to school" on the CNOOC deal, in terms of "what not to do." Unlike CNOOC...
...caveat: “I wouldn’t have been a good investment banker,” Falcone said. “Patience has never been one of my biggest virtues...