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...TIME: The term "checkbook diplomacy" implies a bribe in return for diplomatic recognition. Are you saying that you want to move Taiwan away from that to a more mainstream conventional program...
...dominant political party, Zuma's path to power may not be an easy one. Days after his election as party president, government prosecutors filed a new corruption case against him, though related to the previous allegations. The most serious allegation he currently faces is that he solicited an annual bribe of $43,500 dollars from French arms company Thint, to protect it during an investigation into a controversial arms deal...
Prior to the 2006 coup, political cases rarely made their way through Thailand's justice system. But that is changing. Earlier this month, three of Thaksin's lawyers were jailed for attempting to bribe court officials of the Constitutional Court by handing them the equivalent of $59,000 in a pastry bag as a gift. "This judicial review and activism on the part of the courts could mean the start of a real checks and balances system in Thailand, and so if it continues it would be a positive development," Donavanik, the law professor, said. "I hope it stays...
...have been held more than two hours earlier, but it was delayed by an unprecedented display on the floor of Parliament: during the afternoon debate session, a group of opposition MPs from the Bharatiya Janata Party displayed stacks of cash, asserting that one of them had been offered a bribe to abstain from the vote. The commotion disrupted the proceedings as Speaker Chatterjee insisted that the claim be made formally and in writing, rather than on the open floor. That was just the most serious of the allegations thrown against the Congress Party during the two-day debate over...
...good old days, Leopold complains, he could deny atrocities and be believed. "Then all of a sudden came the crash! That is to say, the incorruptible Kodak--and all the harmony went to hell! The only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe...